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| Educational Background |
2019-2021 University of York (United Kingdom), Ph.D. in English Literature 2006-2013 New York University (New York, United States of America), PhD in Cinema Studies 2004-2005 University College London (London, United Kingdom), MA in Film Studies 1995-1999 Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom), BA in English Language and Literature |
| Prior Employment |
2019-2021 Assistant Teacher at University of Toulon, France 2018-2019 Assistant Teacher at University of Poitiers, France 2016-2018 Research Assistant for City University of Hong Kong, China 2006-2013 Assistant Teacher at New York University, United States |
| Profile |
Dominic Gavin researches early modern British literature, with a particular focus on the period of the British Civil Wars (1642-1648). His articles have appeared in Marvell Studies, Essays in Criticism, and Cambridge Quarterly. Currently, his focus is on the contested interpretation of the Bible in the seventeenth century as a context for literature, focusing in particular on the writings of Andrew Marvell. In the period of the Civil Wars, and in the wake of the execution of King Charles I in 1649, competing groups claimed to be the sole authentic interpreters of the Bible. Gavin’s work highlights how this religious contestation informs the open-endedness of Marvell’s poetry. The proliferation of different interpretations of the Bible in the seventeenth century obliges Marvell and other writers to reflect on the ability of sacred texts to lend themselves to different, and discordant readings. This research project is intended to become a book, with the tentative title ‘Andrew Marvell and the Book of Nature. Scenes of reading and misreading in seventeenth-century pastoral.’
Gavin also has an interest in Italian cinema, in particular Italian historical films. In 2020 he published a monograph Fascism and Resistance in Postwar Cinema, on the depiction of fascism, the Italian Resistance and the Holocaust by filmmakers between 1945 and the 1980s. He has published on the history and memory of the Second World War in the journal California Italian Studies. He also has an interest in the intersections of film and literature, and an article of his on Franz Kafka and Federico Fellini has appeared in the journal Adaptation. Prior to joining ShanghaiTech, Gavin worked for the universities of Toulon and Poitiers in France, City College Hong Kong (remote work) and New York University in the United States. |
| Publications |
‘Authority and Interpretation in Andrew Marvell’s “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn” (c.1649),’ Essays in Criticism 73:3 (2023). ‘Andrew Marvell’s ‘Bermudas,’ paradisal places, and the Protestant critique of sacred spaces,’ Marvell Studies 8:1 (2023). Fascism and Resistance in Italian Cinema. History, Memory and Identity after 1968 (Troubador, 2020). ‘Quotation, Memory and Adaptation in Federico Fellini’s Interview (1987),’ Adaptation 8:1 (2015). ‘The “betrayed Resistance” in Valentino Orsini’s Corbari (1970) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (1976),’ California Italian Studies 5:2 (2014). ‘Myths of the Resistance and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Strategia del ragno,’ California Italian Studies 4:2 (2013). ‘“The Garden” and Andrew Marvell’s Literal Figures,” Cambridge Quarterly 37:2 (2008). |