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My View on AI and University-Level English Literature
5 October 2026
The extended interviews on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
2 August 2026
Structure and There Is No Antimemetics Division
22 February 2026
A few critical notes on Elly Griffith's The Frozen People
22 March 2025
An Introduction to Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
11 February 2025
An introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson
6 February 2025
20th-Century British Isles
27 January 2022
19th-Century British Isles
26 January 2022
18th-Century British Isles
25 January 2022
The Brazilian Novel
22 January 2022
Bildungsroman
13 January 2022
The Baltic States and the Novel
12 January 2022
Authorship
9 January 2022
The Asian-American Novel
8 January 2022
The Arabic Novel
7 January 2022
Anthropology and the Novel
6 January 2022
Andean Novels
5 January 2022
Ancient West
5 January 2022
The African-American Novel
4 January 2022
Aspects of the Novel
4 January 2022
Ancient South Asia
4 January 2022
Ancient China
4 January 2022
Adaptation and Appropriation
4 January 2022
Notes on Nicholas Gaskill's Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color
7 August 2021
Some incomplete notes on Les Encres noires au Moyen Âge
2 August 2021
Birkbeck: The Oldest University English Department in the World? (and a new Oscar Wilde lecture at Birkbeck)
28 June 2021
On the Chromoclasm, the absence of colour, and notes towards a translation of Michel Pastoureau's ‘L’incolore n’existe Pas’
12 June 2021
When and why did paper become white and why was white paper so valued?
5 June 2021
The social network of the London Review of Books
22 February 2021
Getting the Gist of Reading
26 April 2020
The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
2 December 2019
Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City
6 July 2019
Instrumental reading
24 May 2019
(Digital) Ways of Looking
16 March 2019
How to read a (blank) page: on redaction in contemporary fiction
7 February 2019
Forthcoming Books in the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series
21 May 2018
My critique of metamodernism
9 May 2018
Two types of post-critique
12 May 2017
The Folio Society Edition of Riddley Walker
21 April 2017
Next book project: The Aesthetics of Metadata: Redaction, Reference, & the Archive in Contemporary Fiction
19 November 2016
My new book, Literature Against Criticism, is published today
20 October 2016
Now accepting proposals to 'New Horizons in Contemporary Writing' series
6 October 2016
Computational reading as 'reading against the reader'
12 August 2016
Have you read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas? If so, which of the two very different versions?
9 August 2016
The Faber Finds edition of Rex Warner's The Professor is very poorly formatted and proofed
16 April 2016
The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking
11 January 2016
'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
4 July 2015
The Conservatism of Cloud Atlas
21 June 2015
Chapter Four: Academic Fiction
1 March 2015
Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
28 February 2015
Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique
22 February 2015
The Anxiety of Academia: Academics, Legitimation and Discipline in Contemporary Metafiction
15 February 2015
Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives?
19 January 2015
Publication: Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
14 August 2014
Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega (preprint, forthcoming in Journal of American Studies)
2 July 2014
Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event
16 April 2014
Symposium on David Mitchell: 9th May, London
15 April 2014
Publication: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and Metafiction After the Millennium
12 February 2014
Some diagrams of Jennifer Egan novels
15 November 2013
Publication: "Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld"
5 September 2013
Publication: “You will see the logic of the design of this”: From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity
30 August 2013
Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man
20 July 2013
Modernist Intimacies conference
27 March 2013
Conference Paper: "Too many goddamn echoes": Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's /Point Omega/', Birkbeck
10 February 2013
Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
29 January 2013
Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
11 December 2012
Publication: Review of 1Q84 in 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2012)
5 November 2012
CFP: Feminism;; Influence;; Inheritance
1 November 2012
Jeffrey Archer's 140-character story and plagiarism
13 October 2012
My thoughts on DT Max's biography of DFW
30 September 2012
Conference paper: 'Opening children's eyes': Overloaded Forms and the Didactic Function (Westminster University)
18 September 2012
Weird Council: The first international conference on the works of China Miéville #mieville2012 (storify)
16 September 2012
Conference on China Miéville: Weird Council
3 September 2012
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Live Stage Version at the ICA
23 August 2012
Impossible Objects: Preservation and Extinction (on the First Folio)
2 August 2012
Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and 21st-Century Utopianism (presentation)
19 July 2012
Teaching Post-Millenial Fiction Conference archive
3 July 2012
Day 2 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
21 May 2012
Thinking Feeling Conference at the University of Sussex
19 May 2012
The Ontological Problems of Contemporary Fiction Studies are Actually its Ontological Prerequsites
13 May 2012
Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
12 May 2012
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Write-Up: Martin Amis' Money (2012-04-28)
28 April 2012
Teaching Post-Millennial Literature: A HEA and University of Brighton Symposium
23 April 2012
Talawa's Waiting for Godot
11 March 2012
Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Twenty-First-Century Utopianism, 16-18 July, 2012, University of Lincoln
10 February 2012
First Fictions Festival at Sussex
24 January 2012
Joe Orton's Defaced Books at the Islington Museum
14 January 2012
First Fictions launch weekend: 20-22 January, 2012
1 December 2011
Simon F. Davies' Open Educational Resource on Literary Terms
7 November 2011
Brian Lobel: BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer
5 November 2011
Donne it wrong: Holy Sonnet numbering confusion
17 October 2011
The Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 Hoax
6 October 2011
Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld', 2010-06-09, University of Lublin
3 August 2011
Thoughts from "Calling All Agents": The first symposium on the work of Tom McCarthy
30 July 2011
Enslavement Conference, Portsmouth, 17th June 2011
27 June 2011
The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 3
26 June 2011
The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 2
25 June 2011
The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 1
24 June 2011
"We've met before, haven't we?": Spatio-Temporal Distortion in David Lynch's Lost Highway
4 May 2011
Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's "On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God"
24 April 2011
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King: Bonnie Nadell and Michael Pietsch at Foyles
16 April 2011
Picture This: Postcards Exhibition
23 March 2011
Designing a UK undergraduate English literature course
17 March 2011
Russell Hoban in Conversation with Will Self at the British Library
16 February 2011
SA4QE2011: The Drops
5 February 2011
SA4QE 2011: Spreading the Word of Russell Hoban
3 February 2011
Picture this: Postcards Competition
21 January 2011
Publication: ‘Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database by Alan Liu’, Textual Practice, 24, 6 (December 2010)
13 January 2011
Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond Text
20 September 2010
First Fictions conference
17 September 2010
New David Foster Wallace book Fall 2010
10 May 2010
International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
19 March 2010
David Foster Wallace archive material
17 March 2010
Can we avoid the S word regarding David Foster Wallace?
17 March 2010