DrRichard Niland

World Literature Sessional Lecturer

Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication - Central Faculty

  • World Literature Sessional Lecturer
    Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication - Central Faculty
  • Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

RESEARCH

Selected Publications
Books

La Muerte del Agua: El Ascenso y el Descenso del los Saltos del Guairá, translated and edited by José Luis Simón G. (Asunción: El Lector, 2021).
Ed., Norton Critical Edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (Norton, 2016).
Ed., Conrad: The Contemporary Reviews Volume 3: A Personal Record to The Arrow of Gold (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Conrad and History (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Articles and Book Chapters

“Joseph Conrad’s Reception in Ireland,” The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2022), 15-27.
“‘New Shades of Expression:’ Death and Empire in Conrad’s Unrestful Tales,” Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Works of Joseph Conrad, edited by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli (Bloomsbury, 2021), 93-108.
“Death by Water: The Rise and Fall of Los Saltos del Guairá,” Environmental History 23.1 (January, 2018): 56-81.
“Conrad, Capitalism and Globalization,” Conradology (Comma Press, 2017).
‘Nineteenth-Century Argentine Literature and the Writings of R. B. Cunninghame Graham,’ Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries. (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017).
“Modernity, Horses, and History in Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch,” with Nicholas Murgatroyd. Literature and History 25: 2 (2016).
“R. B. Cunninghame Graham,” Scribner’s British Writers, Volume XXIII (2016).
‘Volcanoes, Disaster and Evil in Victory,’ The Conradian 40.2 (2015): 1-14.
‘Introduction’ to the Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad’s Victory, (CUP, 2015).
‘The Political Novels: Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes,’ in The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, edited by J.H. Stape (CUP, 2014).
‘“Say, Who Are you Anyway?”: Clowns, Childhood, and Madness in the Character of Harpo Marx,’ The Journal of Popular Culture 45.4 (2012): 828-45.
“‘Unfit for action . . . Unable to Rest’: Goethe, Lermontov, and Under Western Eyes,” The Conradian 36.2 (2011): 63-78.