Beth McAulay

Research Interests: My research examines the influence of pseudo-scientist and philosopher, J. W. Dunne across a range of twentieth-century literature. This encapsulates Dunne's own ontology of time termed 'Serialism' (amongst a broader network of contemporaneous theories of time), precognition, repetition, parapsychology, and the oneiric. 

Secondarily, my research progresses to examine how Carl Jung developed Dunne's ideas into his own theory of synchronicity in the 1950s. And, how the transformation of one such 'metanarrative' into another can be transposed onto the trajectory of literary modernism to post-modernism. 

Supervisor: Michael Whitworth

I am an editor for the arts and literature magazine, Nawr, and was previously a staff writer for Poetry Wales. My writing is featured in Seren Books' Cymru & I essay anthology, and in other publications such as the welsh agenda and Cwlwm. I am currently serving as a trustee and English-Language Publications panel member for the Books Council of Wales.