David Barnes

David Barnes lectures in English Literature at Trinity College, Oxford. He has held academic positions at a number of different universities, including a Senate House Fellowship at the University of London and a Taylor Visiting Fellowship in American Literature at the University of Virginia. He teaches, writes and researches about literature, history and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of The Venice Myth: Culture, Literature, Politics 1800 to the Present (Routledge). His work has appeared in the New European, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Times. He has also written, produced or presented a number of programs for BBC Radio, notably ‘Escape of the Zebra’ (as writer/presenter: BBC Radio 3, 2019) and ‘Regarding the Pain of Others’ (as co-producer: BBC Radio 3/World Service, 2021).