His main field of research is British working-class literature; he has co-edited a collection of critical essays on Pat Barker, a prominent female working-class novelist. He has also published a People’s History of Britain entitled Unruly Nations. His most recent articles have focused on the relationship between class and gender in the work of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Idris Davies and Edward Upward. <ronald.paul@eng.gu.se>