Principal Lecturer in English Literature (Retired)
I taught at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994 – 2018 and during that time I held a number of roles including: Programme Leader, Link Tutor IST University College Athens and more recently Head of English Literature and Creative Writing (until August 2015).
My teaching covered twentieth and twenty-first century literature with interests in British and North American literature after 1950. I have taught on a range of undergraduate modules but more specifically on Twentieth-century North American Literature, African-American Literature, Worlds Apart: Science Fiction, Worlds Apart: Utopian and Dystopian Writing, Images of Contemporary Society: British Literature and the Politics of Identity and an MA module Sex, Class and Violence: Studies in Literature and Film.
My research interests include British women’s working-class writing, feminist science fiction, apocalyptic science fiction, dystopian literature and film.
I am now retired and thinking about starting a project based on war, memory and personal writing, based on my grandfather’s First World War diaries and photographs. He was based in Egypt and worked in munitions.
I am currently working on a family history and I hope to blog about the Seabrook and Wheeler families in Hertfordshire, the Parkin family from Yorkshire and the Goss and Nash families.
Dr Pat Wheeler 