Paul Leworthy recently completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Situating them in a long-standing cultural tradition of conceiving memory spatially, his doctoral thesis explored the nexus of space and memory in novels by Günter Grass, Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano and Martin Walser. A monograph based on his thesis is due for publication in 2022 in Peter Lang’s Cultural Memories series under the title Dimensions of Memory. Containers and Surfaces in Post-war European Literature.
In 2021-22, Paul Leworthy is a DAAD-funded Visiting Fellow of the Frankfurt Memory Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, where he is working on a project provisionally titled ‘Literary Responses to Reconstruction in Post-War West Germany: the Cultural Connotations of Building Styles and Materials after National Socialism’.
Paul leads the Connecting Memories interdisciplinary research initiative and is host of the Connecting Memories Podcast.