<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 32px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Hywel Dix is Associate Professor of English at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in&nbsp;<i>Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain&nbsp;</i>(2010),&nbsp;<i>After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain&nbsp;</i>(Second Edition, 2013) and&nbsp;<i>Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives,&nbsp;</i>co-edited with Mustafa Kirca<i>&nbsp;</i>(2018)<i>.&nbsp;</i>His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled&nbsp;<i>The Late-Career Novelist&nbsp;</i>was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on&nbsp;<i>Autofiction in English&nbsp;</i>was published by Palgrave in 2018. He has recently completed a study entitled&nbsp;<i>Compatriots or Competitors? Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>