20142024

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Research interests

I research and teach contemporary literature and digital cultures, with particular interest in creative responses to technological change in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

My research traces connections between contemporary literature and digital cultures. My first monograph, Digital Anxiety (currently in process), discusses the intersection of digital technologies and literary writing in the decades around the turn of the millennium, showing how poetry, fiction and digital works published during this time reconfigured the anxieties of earlier eras to grapple with the uncertainties of an emerging "digital age."

More broadly, my interests in twentieth and twenty-first century literature include: popular cultures, genres and new media; digital poetics and experimental writing; surveillance studies and the intersection of health and wellbeing with changing technologies and infrastructures.  

I am theme lead for Imagining Wellbeing in the Centre for Urban Wellbeing, co-director of UoB's Centre for Digital Cultures, and am working on Midlands Mosaics, a community project based around the Eduardo Paolozzi mosaics in Redditch, UK. 

Biography

I joined Birmingham in 2016. Before this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IASH), after completing my doctoral thesis and masters at the University of Edinburgh. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Electric Amateurs: Literary Encounters with Computing Technologies, 1987-2001, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 30 Jun 2015

Master of Arts, Literature and Transatlanticism, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 30 Jun 2010

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of Cambridge

Award Date: 30 Jun 2008

External positions

University of Edinburgh

1 Jan 201630 Jun 2016

Keywords

  • PR English literature
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Digital Cultures
  • Wellbeing
  • popular fiction
  • genre
  • Gender and Sexuality

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