Tony Pinkney is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Lancaster University, England. He played an active role in Oxford English Limited

Oxford English Limited

Oxford English Limited was a socialist-feminist group of undergraduate and postgraduate students campaigning for progressive reforms in the Oxford University English Faculty between 1982 and 1992...

 (OEL), a leftwing group pressing for progressive reforms in the Oxford University English Faculty between 1982 and 1992, and edited its journal, News from Nowhere: Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition

News from Nowhere: Journal of the Oxford English Faculty Opposition

News from Nowhere was the journal of Oxford English Limited , a left-wing group of students and dons who sought progressive reforms to the Oxford University English Faculty syllabus between 1982 and 1992. News from Nowhere was created and edited by Tony Pinkney and ran for nine issues from 1986...

. Fred Inglis has asserted in his biography of Raymond Williams that ‘Tony Pinkney was the moving spirit of OEL’. Pinkney’s work on Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams

Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...

 challenged the notion of Williams as a doggedly realist writer and argued instead for his openness to certain currents in modernism and postmodernism. Pinkney’s most recent work has focused on William Morris

William Morris

William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

and utopianism and he now runs a well-known blog on this topic, 'William Morris Unbound'. In August 2011 he launched the Kelmsgarth Presshttp://kelmsgarthpress.com with Makiko Minow, and he is now working on News from Nowhere Two, a sequel to Morris's utopia.

Books

• Women in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot: A Psychoanalytic Approach (London: Macmillan, 1984), ISBN: 0-333-34706-4.
• D.H. Lawrence, ‘New Readings’ (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1990), ISBN 0710813473
• Raymond Williams: Postmodern Novelist (Cardiff: Seren Press, 1991), ISBN 1-85411-048-9
• William Morris in Oxford: The Campaigning Years, 1879-1895 (Grosmont: Illuminati Books, 2007), ISBN 978-0-9555918-0-8. Available from Illuminati Books http://www.illuminatibooks.co.uk.
• William Morris: The Blog (Kelmsgarth Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0-9567613-0-9. http://kelmsgarthpress.com.

Edited collections

• Raymond Williams, The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (London: Verso, 1989).
• ‘Walter Benjamin in the Postmodern’, New Comparison, no 18, 1994
• We Met Morris: Interviews with William Morris, 1885-96 (Reading: Spire Books Ltd, 2005), ISBN 1-904965-03-2