Dr Daniel Read
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Hourly Paid Lecturer & Part-Time Research Assistant
- Email:
- daniel.read@kingston.ac.uk
About
Daniel Read is an hourly-paid lecturer at Kingston University. His research focuses on the fiction and philosophy of Iris Murdoch. He has developed his thesis, ‘The Problem of Evil and the Fiction and Philosophy of Iris Murdoch' (2019), into a monograph, Degrees of Evil in Iris Murdoch's Fiction and Philosophy, which is due to be published in Palgrave Macmillan's Iris Murdoch Today series in early 2025. He is an Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review for which he has also contributed essays and reports.
Alongside his research on the writing of Iris Murdoch, Daniel teaches on subjects including professional writing and communication, trauma and justice, Victorian and Modernist literature, and late-Victorian homosexual writers. He was a Research Assistant for the Kingston Research Charity Network project, run by Meg Jensen and Kate Scott, in 2023–4.
Qualifications
- PhD Kingston University
- MA Kingston University
- BA Kingston University
Domains
2024/5 Trauma and Justice (MA): Lecturer/Module Leader
2024/5 Humanities in the Environment (BA): Lecturer/Module Leader
2023/4 Dissertation Supervision (BA/MA)
2023/4 Trauma and Justice (MA): Lecturer/Module Leader
2023/4 Professional Communication (BA): Lecturer/Module Leader
2023/4 Sex and the City (BA): Lecturer
2023/4 The Tools of Writing (Creative and Cultural Industries BA): Lecturer
2023/4 Writing that Works (BA): Lecturer
2022/3 Trauma and Justice (MA): Lecturer/Module Leader
2022/3 Professional Communication (BA): Lecturer
2022/3 Sex and the City (BA): Lecturer
2022/3 Radical Writers (BA): Lecturer
2022/3 Writing that Works (BA): Lecturer
2021/2 Trauma and Justice (MA): Lecturer
2021/2 Transforming Realities (BA): Lecturer
2021/2 Writing that Works (BA): Lecturer
2017/18 Great Books (BA): Lecturer
Courses taught
Publications
- 'Iris Murdoch and the Book of Job', in Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination, ed. by Miles Leeson and Frances White, forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
- Degrees of Evil in Iris Murdoch's Fiction and Philosophy, forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
- 'The Pub in Iris Murdoch's Fiction', Iris Murdoch Review 15 (2024)
- 'Report on Lucy Oulton's "'A Quietly Dangerous Violent Mood': The Sea in The Sea, The Sea"', a public lecture at the University of Chichester, 21 October 2023, Iris Murdoch Review15 (2024)
- Transcription of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley in Conversation at Tulane University, Iris Murdoch Review 14 (2023)
- 'Report on Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit', a conference held at Durham University, 7-9 June 2023, Iris Murdoch Review14 (2023)
- ‘Iris Murdoch in the Media 2022', Iris Murdoch Review13 (2022)
- ‘Evil and Violence: Murdoch's Ambiguous Moral Vision and her Engagement with the Writings of William Blake in The Philosopher's Pupil', Iris Murdoch Review, 11 (2020): 5-22
- ‘Report on National Portrait Gallery Event on 19 July 2019, titled "Iris Murdoch's Relationship to Painting in Philosophy and in Life"', Iris Murdoch Review, 11 (2020): 82-3
- ‘Review of Incest in Contemporary Literature, ed. by Miles Leeson', Iris Murdoch Review, 9 (2018): 62-3
- ‘"Evolving a Style": Iris Murdoch and the Surrealist Moral Vision of Paul Nash', Iris Murdoch Review, 8 (2017): 29-37
- Transcription of ‘Broadcast as part of the "Head to Head" Series: "Ideas of Freedom"', Iris Murdoch Review, 4 (2013): 18-22
- ‘Report on the Sixth International Conference on Iris Murdoch at Kingston University, 2012', Iris Murdoch Review, 4 (2013): 67
Interests and areas of specialism
- Iris Murdoch
- The Problem of Evil
- Psychopathy
- William Blake
- Twentieth-Century Fiction
- Professional Writing and Communication
- Late-Victorian Homosexual Writers