BRIAN WORSFOLD

BRIAN

Dr. Brian Worsfold is Emeritus Professor of English in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Lleida (Catalunya, Spain). A graduate of Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa), he holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona. His doctoral thesis focussed on novels in English by Black South African writers. Since obtaining his doctorate, he has published articles on various aspects of literatures from Africa in English, especially from Southern Africa, and is author of South Africa Backdrop: An historical introduction of South African literary and cultural studies (1999). Since 1999, he has undertaken research on aging as represented in literatures in English, has published widely on the subject, especially as presented in fiction in English from Africa, and is the General Editor of the Dedal-Lit collection, published at the University of Lleida, and editor of Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience (2005), The Art of Ageing: Textualising the Phases of Life (2005), and Acculturating Age: Approaches to Cultural Gerontology (2011). He currently heads up the research group Grup Dedal-Lit, co-ordinating the group’s participation as a partner institution of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS) and of the European Project Social Innovation in Active and Healthy Ageing for sustainable economic growth – SIforAGE.

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN AGEING STUDIES:

  • Worsfold, Brian J. Ed. Acculturating Age: Approaches to Cultural Gerontology.(Dedal-Lit 7) Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2011. pp. 1-383 (ISBN: 978-84-8409-384-8) [Authors in the book: Agunbiade OM; Bailey C; Bautista-Naranjo E; Bureu-Ramos N; Cogan L; Cunningham C; Dinkelmann CY; Domínguez-Rué E; Gunnarsson E; Hazaparu M-A; Jackson A; Karisto A; Krekula C; Kuhalampi A; Lara-Rallo C; Llorens-Cubedo D; Maierhofer R (Prologue); Miquel-Baldellou M; Mishra AJ; Nyqvist-Cech B; O'Donnell D; Opatola M; Oró-Piqueras M; Rampton D; Roberts S; Smyczynska K; Tiihonen A; Titilayo A; Willman T]
  • Worsfold, B.J. “Introduction.” Worsfold, B.J. Ed. Acculturating Age: Approaches to Cultural Gerontology (Dedal-Lit 7). pp. xix-xxxi. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-8409-384-8
  • Worsfold, B.J. “‘The true morality of fiction’: Aging Truths in Some Writings of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.” Conference: “The Cultural Politics of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” Regensburg (Germany). 2011.
  • Worsfold,B.J. 'Better late than never: the generational deficit and retirement.' Conference: “Retirement Deferred: Aging, Gender and Representation.” University of the West of England, Bristol (UK). 2011.
  • Worsfold, Brian J. “Nina Taunton, Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Routledge, New York, 2007, 224 pp., hbk £70.00, ISBN 13: 978 0 415 32473 1.” Ageing & Society. Vol. 30. Issue 01. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 185-187. (ISSN: 0144-686X) [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ASO]
  • Worsfold, B.J. “Spur or Pitfall? Aged Men’s Desire in Philip Roth’s Everyman (2006), André Brink’s Before I Forget (2004), and Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005).” N. Bureu-Ramos. Ed. Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire. (Switzerland): Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 187-203. ISBN: 978-3-0343-0438-2
  • Worsfold, B.J.“El dèficit generacional: La divisió jove/gran, pobre/ric en la població lleidatana.” Conference: Pensar la identitat. Trobada científica. Institut de Recerca en Identitats i Societat (IRIS) - Lleida (Spain). 2010. [With Emma Domínguez-Rué]
  • Worsfold, Brian J. Ed.The Art of Ageing. Textualising the Phases of Life. (Dedal-Lit 5) Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2005. (ISBN: 84-8409-176-7) [Authors in the book: Blanco-Uría H; Djurick-Kuzmanovic T; Feixa-Pàmpols C; Garrido-Anes E; Gifra-Adroher P; de Gregorio-Godeo E; Khalifa R; Kinsella J; Kirkwood T (Prologue);Port C; Rampton D; Rodríguez-Rodríguez F; Skoblow J; Torrelles-Pont L; Yedidia T; Levine-Keini N]
  • Worsfold, Brian J. Ed. “Introduction.” Worsfold, Brian J. Ed.The Art of Ageing. Textualising the Phases of Life. (Dedal-Lit 5) pp. xi-xxiv.Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2005. (ISBN: 84-8409-176-7)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. Ed.Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience. (Dedal-Lit 4) Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2005. (ISBN: 84-8409-175-9) [Authors in the book: Arias-Doblas R; Ballyn S; Carrillo-Linares M-J; Gibert T; Gray B; Lara-Rallo C; Leach H; O’Neill M; Nhongo TM (Prologue); Oró-Piqueras M; Pezzulich E; Port C; Swinnen A; Zamorano-Llena C]
  • Worsfold, Brian J. Ed. “Introduction.” Worsfold, Brian J. Ed.Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience. (Dedal-Lit 4) pp. xiii-xxiii.Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2005. (ISBN: 84-8409-175-9)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. “The Victorian Ethic of Self-Help and Its Implications for Contemporary Ageing” Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens.63. pp. 189-208. (ISSN: 0220-5610)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. “The Victorian Ethic of Self-Help and Its Implications for Contemporary Ageing.” Conference: Viellir à l’Âge victorien (Colloque Université Blaise Pascal), Clermont-Ferrand, France. 2005.
  • Worsfold, Brian J. "Preface." Vidal-Grau, Maria, and Núria Casado-Gual. Eds. The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literature in English. (Dedal-Lit 3) pp. vii-viii. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. (ISBN: 84-8409-969-5)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. "Ageing Patriarchs in Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apart, Charles Mungoshi'sWaiting for the Rain, and Nuruddin Farah'sClose Sesame. Vidal-Grau, Maria, and Núria Casado-Gual. Eds. The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literature in English. (Dedal-Lit 3) pp. 155-176. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. (ISBN: 84-8409-969-5)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. “Preface.” O’Neill, Maria, and Zamorano-Llena, Carmen. Eds.The Aesthetics of Ageing. Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process. (Dedal-Lit 2) pp. 7-8. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2002. (ISBN: 84-8409-142-2)
  • Worsfold, Brian J. “Ageing Masculinity and Creativity in André Brink’sThe Rights of Desire.” O’Neill, Maria, and Zamorano Llena, Carmen. Eds.The Aesthetics of Ageing. Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process. (Dedal-Lit 2) pp. 141-162. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2002. (ISBN: 84-8409-142-2)

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