Professor David Glover
Emeritus Professor of English
Professor David Glover is an Emeritus Professor of English within English at the University of Southampton.
My early background was in sociology and cultural studies, and I taught in a number of universities in Britain, Canada, and the United States. I joined English at Southampton in 1995 and taught courses on Irish literature, American literature, modernism, cultural theory, and Victorian and Edwardian culture before retiring in 2014. Since 2005 I have been a Fellow in the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the university and I have also been a Resident Fellow at the Humanities Institute, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1992) and a Visiting Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago (2003).
I am a member of the Editorial Board of the journal
new formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics
serving as Editor 1997-2001 and Co-editor 2004-2008; and an Editorial Board member of
English, Text, Construction
. My published work includes books, articles and essays on cultural theory, modernism, Victorian literature, gender, law and literature, and the history of the novel. In 2012 I published a cultural history of the 1905 Aliens Act, the first recognisably modern legislation restricting immigration into Britain. This study examined how that law came into being and what its effects were, focusing particularly on the ways in which the figure of the immigrant was imagined in a variety of discourses and media.