Academic Appointments
- Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London, October 2020 – September 2021.
- Sessional Lecturer, Birkbeck, October 2016 – July 2019.
Education
- PhD., English Literature, Birkbeck, October 2014 – March 2020.
- MA., English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, October 2012 – September 2013.
- BA., English Literature, University of Sussex, October 2008 – July 2011.
Publications
Books
- Peripheralizing DeLillo: Surplus Populations, Capitalist Crisis, and the Novel (Bloomsbury Academic, January 2022)
Articles
Shorter Pieces, Non Peer reviewed
- ‘Origin of the Species‘, The Gentian (Issue 20: Moving Places, Finding Spaces, April 2025)
- ‘Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labor in Inventing Anna‘, A Secret Plot (24 April 2023). Blog post.
- ‘Completing the Unresolved Plot of History‘, A Secret Plot (17 October 2022). Blog post.
- ‘New Mexican Postcards’. Mechanics’ Institute Review (16 January 2019). Poems.
- ‘Avatar Activism: Limits and Possibilities’. Birkbeck Events Blog (22 June 2016). Blog post.
- ‘Neutral Milk’. Inky Needles (November 2014). Poem [published under Lynn Bonner]
- ‘The Month, Last’ and ‘Unorganised Lincolnshire’. Poets’ Basement at CounterPunch (28 February 2014). Poems [Published under Howard Morton]
Invited and Keynote Lectures
- ‘Peripheralizing DeLillo’, Marxism in Culture, London, July 2023.
- ‘Beamed in Ahead of Schedule: The Novel After Value’, University of Warwick, June 2023.
Selected Conference Presentations
- ‘“It’s the Old Bolshevik Dream Being Dreamed Again”: The Historical Novel after Communism’, presented at the Society for Novel Studies, Oxford, United Kingdom (April 2020). Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic.
- ‘Porno-Accumulation, Fascism, and Surplus Populations in Don DeLillo’s Running Dog’, presented at the 16th Annual Historical Materialism conference, London (November 2019).
- ‘“Natura Morta”; or, Falling Man and the Antinomies of Homeland Realism’, presented at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, Loughborough, (July 2018).
- ‘Finance, Deterritorialization, and Surplus Populations in Don DeLillo’s Players’, presented at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (July 2017).
- ‘DeLillo’s Sixties: Surplus Populations and the Aestheticisation of Revolution’, presented at the Don DeLillo and the State of Fiction conference, Sussex (June 2015).
Courses Taught
- The Novel: Writing the Modern World. Undergraduate survey module of the emergence, development, and reconfiguration of the novel. Selected Texts: Robinson Crusoe, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, Silas Marner, To the Lighthouse, The Crying of Lot 49, Shame, Crossing the River, Persepolis.
- Writing London. Undergraduate module on the poetics of urban form. Selected Texts: Henry IV, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Oliver Twist, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mrs Dalloway, The Lonely Londoners, The Caretaker, Saturday, NW.
Related Professional Activities
- Virtual Tutor, Get Further (November 2020 – Present).
- General Editor, Dandelion: Postgraduate Research Journal (September 2016 – June 2018).
- Assistant Editor, Dandelion: Postgraduate Research Journal (September 2015 – June 2016).
- Graduate Intern, Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities and Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (September 2016 – June 2017).
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
- Society for Novel Studies (2020 – 2021).
- British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (Since 2018).
- American Comparative Literature Association (2017 – 2018).
- British Association of American Studies (Since 2016).
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