Bethan Jones is Senior Lecturer in English within the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hull, UK, specialising in modern and contemporary literature. Much of her research has focused on the works of D.H. Lawrence; in 2010, she published an award-winning monograph entitled The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Shaping a Late Style. She has co-edited short fiction and poetry volumes and was editor of the British Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies from 2000-2005. Recently, her research has focused on visual impairment in contemporary literature, catalysing community-based projects in this area. She also writes about the relationship between literary texts and music.