Rachel Crossland, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Chichester

Rachel Crossland is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chichester. Following a BA in English and Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool, she completed her Masters and DPhil at St John's College, Oxford. She taught at various colleges at the University of Oxford, before taking up a year's Lectureship at King's College London in 2014. She joined the University of Chichester in January 2015. Dr Crossland is interested in links between literature and science in the early twentieth century, including popular science, and in modernist writing more broadly considered.

Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science Annual Book Prize

"...[a] diligent, thoughtful and articulate study..." - Jeff Wallace, Cardiff Metropolitan University, D.H. Lawrence Review

"Crossland expertly demonstrates the centrality of physics to Woolf and Lawrence's construction... the fact that the reader is left with unanswered questions is in many ways an indication of the richness of Crossland's study; it indicates that the book has the potential to spark many future investigations." - Catriona Livingstone, The Review of English Studies

"Crossland's book attests not only to the ongoing generative power of the new physics but also to the continued need for scholarship that is internally elegant and surprising. Moreover, in foregrounding and testing a process of inquiry, Crossland models methodological responsibility for an increasingly interdisciplinary field. To assess the book in the terms it offers, Modernist Physics thoroughly engages several disciplines in order "to overwrite, while still expressing, [their] difference" (44). While this book would be worth reading just for its clear explana-tions and historical framing of concepts that reimagined the universe, Crossland has also made an enthralling contribution to modernist studies and Woolf scholarship." - Margaret Greaves, Woolf Studies Annual

"Modernist Physics is framed by thought-provoking examinations of the function and concerns of literature and science as a field of study, in which Crossland painstakingly examines a variety of critical models around the issues of chronology, influence, shared discourse, and the challenges posed by the inherent interdisciplinarity of modernism itself." - Rachel Fountain Eames, The British Society for Literature and Science