Luke Lewin Davies is an academic, writer, and theatre director.
As an academic, his research interests include critical theory, degrowth, and late modern British literature. His monograph The Tramp in British Literature was recently shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize. He has held lecturing posts at Keele University (UK) and the University of Tübingen (Germany), and is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Tromsø (Norway).
His creative writing has been shortlisted for the Letter Review Nonfiction Prize (2024) and the Crossing the Tees Short Story Competition (2024); longlisted for the Fiction Factory Short Story Competition (2024) and the Letter Review Prize (2023); Highly Commended for the MPT Short Story Prize (2023); and selected for the London Independent Story Prize Anthology (2023). His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Literary Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plays he has directed have toured to Adelaide, Berlin, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris, and to venues across the UK, including the King’s Head Theatre, Theatre 503, Greenwich Theatre, and Southwark Playhouse. His productions have been nominated for an Off West End Award, an Off Fest Award, and a Poz Award.