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Tory is an Associate Professor of English Literature at ARU, Cambridge, where she teaches and publishes on 20-21st-century literature. Her 2008 practical guide for undergraduates Studying English Literature (Cambridge University Press) has sold around the world.
In 2013, she was awarded a British Academy Grant to study feminist narratology which resulted in a symposium, special edition of Textual Practice, and book Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative (Routledge, 2021). In 2021, she began a collaboration with the National Centre for Writing, developing a series of life-writing seminars for participants aged 70+ entitled A Life Written, as part of her research into Life Writing and mental health. In order to develop this research she bid for a VC Scholarship on Writing and Wellbeing, which was awarded to Dominique De-Light, which she supervises and which is co-funded by the National Centre for Writing.
Tory regularly interviews authors for Waterstones, Cambridge, and is currently editing a collection of essays about female friendship, and writing about 21st-century novels in which women voluntarily retreat to bed for a year.
Email: tory.young@aru.ac.uk
Selected Bibliography
Young, T., 2023. What’s to-day? Politics and Typography in Ali Smith’s Decade. In: Tew, P. et al (eds). The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction. London: Bloomsbury.
Young, T., ed. 2021. Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative. London: Routledge.
Young, T., 2018. Invisibility and power in the digital age: issues for feminist and queer narratology. Textual Practice, 32 (6): pp.991-1006.
Young, T., 2018. Futures for feminist and queer narratology. Textual Practice, 32 (6): pp.913-921.
Young, T., 2015. “Love and the Imagination Are Not Gendered Things”: An Interview with Ali Smith. Contemporary Women's Writing, 9 (1): pp.131-148.
Young, T., 2014. You-niversal Love: Desire, Intimacy and the Second-Person in Ali Smith’s Short Fiction. In: Leggett, B. and Venezia, A. (Eds.), 2014. Twenty-First Century British Fiction: Critical Essays. Canterbury: Gylphi. pp.293-312.
Young, T., 2014. Brooklyn as the 'untold story' of 'Eveline': Reading Joyce and Tóibín with Ricoeur. Journal of Modern Literature, 37(2), pp.123-40.
Young, T., 2012. Myths of Passage: Paris and Parallax. In: Joannou, M. (Ed.), 2012. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920-1945. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.275-90.
Baxter, J., Snaith, A., and Young, T., 2012. Reading Jean Rhys. Women: A Cultural Review, 23(4).
Young, T., 2009. Nancy Cunard’s Black Man White Ladyship as Surrealist Tract. In: Hackett, R., Hauser, F.S. and Wachman, G. (Eds.). At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s. Neward, DE: University of Delaware Press. pp.96-118.
Young, T., 2008. Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. There is also a 2009 South Asian reprint edition.
Young, T., 2003. Michael Cunningham’s The Hours. London and New York: Continuum. One chapter of this book has been translated into Japanese as Young, T., 2006. The Hours and Mrs Dalloway. In: Kubota, N. 2006. Reading English Masterpieces: Mrs Dalloway. Kyoto, Japan: Minerva Press.