Dr Buxi Duan

Dr Buxi Duan

School of Social Policy and Society
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

  • PhD in English Literature, University of Birmingham
  • MA in English Literature, University of Nottingham
  • BA in English, Beijing Foreign Studies University
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research

Research interests

D. H. Lawrence, literary modernism, archival studies, textual criticism, British social history (19-20c) 

Current projects

He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project that explores the intersections of 19th-20th century British social history and sociology, with a focus on youth delinquency. This historical criminological study aims to explore the first government-run youth institutions in England, known as the reformatory schools.