Lecturer in English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam @UvA_Amsterdam. Contributing editor @Review31. Big on cycling.
Joined November 2011
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I am launching my book this Thursday. @EdinburghUP @UvA_Humanities . All in Amsterdam are welcome to join!
A shout out into the void: I am in need of a copy of DeLillo's hard-to-find one act play, 'The Word for Snow'. Can anyone help me?
NOW AVAILABLE OPEN ACCESS! The agonistic imagination: the illiberal and pluralist possibilities of contemporary BrexLit fiction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Very happy to be shortlisted for this year's @UvA_Humanities Education Award! Please vote via the link:
uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/orga…
Our guest lecture 2023/4 finale, this Wednesday @UvA_Humanities . Free and open to all in Amsterdam!
Delighted to announce a new article on Brexit fiction and the agonistic imagination w/ @ContinuumJMCS on @realzadiesmith and David Szalay @UvA_Humanities - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
My book, 'J.M. Coetzee's Politics of Life', is now available for pre-order! There is also a 30% discount code, NEW30, for those interested @EdinburghUP edinburghuniversitypress.com…
Catching up with this brilliant survey of the recent debates in Lit Studies (and a great recap on perennial relevance of Jameson). Strongly recommended!
Here’s my somewhat lengthy @NewLeftReview essay about the stakes of contemporary political criticism — why we might want (or be forced) to interpret narratives, via the work of Fredric Jameson, Timothy Bewes, Rita Felski, postcritique and the ‘method wars’
newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…
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Is fiction real? Of course not, says Percival Everett, but neither is reality.
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The final week! 6 sessions is not enough but they culminate nicely with Lerner’s superb 2019 autofiction, The Topeka School (which I happen to now be writing two essays about).
About to begin my contemporary American lit course, starting with Kraus. Stumbled on this great line: ‘When you’re old, essentialism dies. You are your circumstances.’ One of many ofc
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Today’s top sporting event:
The Dutch headwind cycling championships
(This video is actual speed, not slowed down)
New publication! My chapter, 'Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism' in Modernism Beyond the Human. Thanks @albertogodioli and Carmen van den Bergh. @UvA_Humanities #Beckett
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Delighted to see my forthcoming #Coetzee book with
@EdinburghUP featured on their website! Pub date March 2024 [now with cover image included!]
