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Overview
I am a former Head of School and College Dean of Postgraduate (Research) Studies; prior to my time at Cardiff, I was a Professor of Anglo-American Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
My interests lie at the intersections of Literature, Cultural Theory, English Law, and English Language. I am interested in the historical and theoretical relations between literature and law, particularly in relation to 'unwritten law'. More recently, my research has focused on law and visuality, religion, and violence -- particularly the relations between them. I also maintain a long-standing interest In the cultural politics of (teaching) English as a subject within Europe and as a 'global' language or 'lingua franca'.
Publication
2018
- Kayman, M. A. 2018. Iconic violence: belief, law and the visual. Textual Practice 32(1), pp. 139-161. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1249710)
2017
- Kayman, M. A. 2017. Imagining the foundations of law in Britain: Magna Carta in 2015. German Law Journal 18(2), pp. 363-398. (10.1017/S2071832200021994)
2016
- Kayman, M. A. 2016. Corpus Juris, Habeas Corpus, and the 'corporeal turn' in the humanities. Law and Literature 28(3), pp. 355-378. (10.1080/1535685X.2016.1232923)
- Kayman, M. A. 2016. 'The law is a ass': obscenity, blasphemy and other literary offences after Lady Chatterley. In: Grüttemeier, R. ed. Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 191-215.
2015
- Kayman, M. A. 2015. Printing the messenger: the end of an era. The European English Messenger 24(1), pp. 6-9.
2013
- Kayman, M. A. 2013. The law and the statuesque. Law and Critique 24(1), pp. 1-22. (10.1007/s10978-012-9114-9)
2012
- Kayman, M. A. 2012. "Iconic" Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues. In: Dahlberg, L. ed. Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics. Law & Literature Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 13-22.
- Kayman, M. A. 2012. "Frank and free": Global English and English Values. Presented at: 6th International IDEA Conference, Istanbul Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 April 2011 Presented at Hart, P. ed.Studies in English: Proceedings from the sixth International IDEA Conference. Istanbul: Istanbul Kültür University pp. 5-22.
2011
- Kayman, M. A. 2011. The Bill of Rights: 'Icons' of liberty and law in the early twenty-first century. Law and Humanities 5(2), pp. 323-348. (10.5235/175214811798043649)
2010
- Kayman, M. A. 2010. Bodies of law and sculptural bodies: Writing, art, and the real. Textual Practice 24(5), pp. 791-817. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.484590)
2009
- Kayman, M. A. 2009. The lingua franca of globalisation: 'filius nullius in terra nullius', as we say in English. Nordic Journal of English Studies 8(3), pp. 87-115.
2007
- Olson, G. and Kayman, M. 2007. Introduction: from 'law-and-literature' to 'law, literature, and language': a comparative approach. European Journal of English Studies 11(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1080/13825570601183146)
2006
- Kayman, M. A. 2006. Only one subject? Englishes in continental Europe. In: Martin, P. W. ed. English: the condition of the subject. London: Palgrave, pp. 21-33.
- Kayman, M., Locatelli, A. and Nünning, A. 2006. Editorial: on being 'European' in English. European Journal of English Studies 10(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1080/13825570600590465)
2005
- Kayman, M. 2005. European universities prior to the Bologna reform: a survey of English studies in Europe. The European English Messenger 14(1), pp. 15-30.
2004
- Kayman, M. A. 2004. A memorial for Jeremy Bentham: Memory, fiction, and writing the law. Law and Critique 15(3), pp. 207-229. (10.1007/s10978-004-5443-7)
- Kayman, M. A. 2004. Trials of law and language: Caleb Williams and John Horne Tooke. In: Fludernik, M. and Olson, G. eds. In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Peter Lang, pp. 83-104.
- Kayman, M. 2004. The state of English as a global language: communicating culture. Textual Practice 18(1), pp. 1-22. (10.1080/0950236032000140131)
2003
- Kayman, M. A. 2003. The short story from Poe to Chesterton. In: Martin, P. ed. Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-58.
2001
- Kayman, M. A. 2001. The 'New Sort of Speciality' and the 'New Province of Writing': Bank Notes, Fiction and the Law in Tom Jones. ELH 68(3), pp. 633-653. (10.1353/elh.2001.0025)
2000
- Kayman, M. 2000. A very old alliance? An introduction to English in Portugal. In: Engler, B. and Haas, R. eds. European English studies: contributions towards the history of a discipline., Vol. 1. Leicester: The English Association for the European Society for the Study of English, pp. 13-32.
1997
- Kayman, M. 1997. The reader and the jury: legal fictions and the making of commercial law in eighteenth-century England. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9(4), pp. 373-394. (10.1353/ecf.1997.0037)
- Kayman, M. 1997. On difference and difficulty: theorizing English in Europe. European Journal of English Studies 1(1), pp. 10-32. (10.1080/13825579708574375)
1996
- Kayman, M. 1996. Lawful writing: common law, statute and the properties of literature. New Literary History 27(4), pp. 761-783.
1992
- Kayman, M. 1992. From Bow Street to Baker Street: mystery, detection and narrative. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
1986
- Kayman, M. 1986. The modernism of Ezra Pound: the science of poetry. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles
- Kayman, M. A. 2018. Iconic violence: belief, law and the visual. Textual Practice 32(1), pp. 139-161. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1249710)
- Kayman, M. A. 2017. Imagining the foundations of law in Britain: Magna Carta in 2015. German Law Journal 18(2), pp. 363-398. (10.1017/S2071832200021994)
- Kayman, M. A. 2016. Corpus Juris, Habeas Corpus, and the 'corporeal turn' in the humanities. Law and Literature 28(3), pp. 355-378. (10.1080/1535685X.2016.1232923)
- Kayman, M. A. 2015. Printing the messenger: the end of an era. The European English Messenger 24(1), pp. 6-9.
- Kayman, M. A. 2013. The law and the statuesque. Law and Critique 24(1), pp. 1-22. (10.1007/s10978-012-9114-9)
- Kayman, M. A. 2011. The Bill of Rights: 'Icons' of liberty and law in the early twenty-first century. Law and Humanities 5(2), pp. 323-348. (10.5235/175214811798043649)
- Kayman, M. A. 2010. Bodies of law and sculptural bodies: Writing, art, and the real. Textual Practice 24(5), pp. 791-817. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.484590)
- Kayman, M. A. 2009. The lingua franca of globalisation: 'filius nullius in terra nullius', as we say in English. Nordic Journal of English Studies 8(3), pp. 87-115.
- Olson, G. and Kayman, M. 2007. Introduction: from 'law-and-literature' to 'law, literature, and language': a comparative approach. European Journal of English Studies 11(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1080/13825570601183146)
- Kayman, M., Locatelli, A. and Nünning, A. 2006. Editorial: on being 'European' in English. European Journal of English Studies 10(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1080/13825570600590465)
- Kayman, M. 2005. European universities prior to the Bologna reform: a survey of English studies in Europe. The European English Messenger 14(1), pp. 15-30.
- Kayman, M. A. 2004. A memorial for Jeremy Bentham: Memory, fiction, and writing the law. Law and Critique 15(3), pp. 207-229. (10.1007/s10978-004-5443-7)
- Kayman, M. 2004. The state of English as a global language: communicating culture. Textual Practice 18(1), pp. 1-22. (10.1080/0950236032000140131)
- Kayman, M. A. 2001. The 'New Sort of Speciality' and the 'New Province of Writing': Bank Notes, Fiction and the Law in Tom Jones. ELH 68(3), pp. 633-653. (10.1353/elh.2001.0025)
- Kayman, M. 1997. The reader and the jury: legal fictions and the making of commercial law in eighteenth-century England. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9(4), pp. 373-394. (10.1353/ecf.1997.0037)
- Kayman, M. 1997. On difference and difficulty: theorizing English in Europe. European Journal of English Studies 1(1), pp. 10-32. (10.1080/13825579708574375)
- Kayman, M. 1996. Lawful writing: common law, statute and the properties of literature. New Literary History 27(4), pp. 761-783.
Book sections
- Kayman, M. A. 2016. 'The law is a ass': obscenity, blasphemy and other literary offences after Lady Chatterley. In: Grüttemeier, R. ed. Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 191-215.
- Kayman, M. A. 2012. "Iconic" Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues. In: Dahlberg, L. ed. Visualizing Law and Authority: Essays on Legal Aesthetics. Law & Literature Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 13-22.
- Kayman, M. A. 2006. Only one subject? Englishes in continental Europe. In: Martin, P. W. ed. English: the condition of the subject. London: Palgrave, pp. 21-33.
- Kayman, M. A. 2004. Trials of law and language: Caleb Williams and John Horne Tooke. In: Fludernik, M. and Olson, G. eds. In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Peter Lang, pp. 83-104.
- Kayman, M. A. 2003. The short story from Poe to Chesterton. In: Martin, P. ed. Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-58.
- Kayman, M. 2000. A very old alliance? An introduction to English in Portugal. In: Engler, B. and Haas, R. eds. European English studies: contributions towards the history of a discipline., Vol. 1. Leicester: The English Association for the European Society for the Study of English, pp. 13-32.
Books
- Kayman, M. 1992. From Bow Street to Baker Street: mystery, detection and narrative. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kayman, M. 1986. The modernism of Ezra Pound: the science of poetry. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Conferences
- Kayman, M. A. 2012. "Frank and free": Global English and English Values. Presented at: 6th International IDEA Conference, Istanbul Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 April 2011 Presented at Hart, P. ed.Studies in English: Proceedings from the sixth International IDEA Conference. Istanbul: Istanbul Kültür University pp. 5-22.
Research
With a background originally in Ezra Pound, science and literature, and the politics of Modernism, my research is currently focused mainly in the ever-expanding fand changing ield of law and literature, both broadly and problematically conceived.
My work has addressed issues of writing, fictionality, authority, and property with a particular attention to how such issues were articulated during the eighteenth century, a crucial period in the formation of the ideology of English Law and literary property, as well as to how such issues were dealt with in narratives of crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Addressing more contemporary issues, my work has accompanied moves in 'law and literature' to 'law and culture', turning to triangulated relations between law, religion, and the visual. My research and publications have focused on notions of the 'corpus' and on the relation between law and violence. At the same time, I am interested in the sort of writing that is implied by a body of 'unwritten' law and its special place in British identity and culture, particularly in the context of multiculturalism, globalisation and 'Brexit'.
I also retain an interest in theoretical and historical issues in the cultural politics of English and, particularly, of English Studies in Europe.
Research interests
- law and literature
- writing, the visual, and terror
- eighteenth-century culture
- crime fiction
- the culture of police
- the cultural politics of English
Biography
I took both my undergraduate degree and my PhD at the University of York in the 1970s. I subsequently took up an appointment at Coimbra University, Portugal, where, in time, I became Director of the Institute for English Studies and chair of the Department of Anglo-American Studies. I moved to Cardiff in 2000.
At Cardiff I have served as Director of Research (2002-4) and Head of School (2004-14), College Dean of Postgraduate Research Studies (2015-18) and Dean of Postgraduate Studies (2018-19).
From 2004 to 2018, I was one of the three general editors of The European Journal of English Studies. Previously, for six years I was responsible for The European English Messenger, the newsletter of the European Society for the Study of English. An account of my contribution to the Society by a former President and a former Secretary can be found at http://essenglish.org/messenger/blog/in-homage-to-professor-martin-a-kayman/.