Simmons, David

David Simmons received his PhD in American literature from the University of Central England in Birmingham in 2006, and currently lectures in American Literary and Cultural Studies at both Birmingham and Northampton Universities. He has written on a wide range of issues relating to popular twentieth century American Literature including the Anglophile tendencies of H.P. Lovecraft ("Symbiosis," 2007); 1960's fictional reconfigurations of the cowboy figure ("Paperback Westerns: A Collection of Critical Essays," 2008); and the novels of Chuck Palahniuk ("Chuck Palahniuk: Beyond Fight Club," 2008)...