Intellect

Martin Hurcombe is principally interested in the relationship between representations of conflict and politics in early twentieth-century France. He is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945. He is also interested in the relationship between political commitment and utopianism and the memory of World War I in twentieth-century French culture. He is a member of the executive committee of the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS), based at the Universities of Bristol, Swansea and Westminster, and is one of the editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. In addition to this, he has an interest in French crime fiction, particularly the novels of Sébastien Japrisot.