Author: Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips holds a BA in English from Lancaster University, UK, and a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has been a Lecturer in English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona since 1991. His main areas of speciality are poetry and crime fiction. His research interests began with poetry—particularly that of John Clare—which led to ecocriticism, ecofeminism, gender studies, crime fiction and postcolonial studies, on all of which he has published widely. From 2013 to 2017, he led a Spanish government-financed research project on postcolonial crime fiction. His latest publications have mainly been related to crime fiction including an ecocritical assessment of the HBO series True Detective, and a study of the surprising return of religious beliefs among some contemporary fictional detectives.