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Delighted to see my forthcoming #Coetzee book with Edinburgh University Press featured on their website! Pub date March 2024 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-j-m-coetz…

Delighted to see my forthcoming #Coetzee book with Edinburgh University Press featured on their website! Pub date March 2024 [now with cover image included!]

New publication! My chapter, 'Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism' in Modernism Beyond the Human. Thanks Alberto Godioli and Carmen van den Bergh. UvA Geesteswetenschappen #Beckett brill.com/display/book/9…

Today’s top sporting event: The Dutch headwind cycling championships (This video is actual speed, not slowed down)

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

Week 2 of my Contemporary American Writers

Week 3; an absolute favourite

Week 4!

Week 5; the highlight of the course, I’d say

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).

A final 🚴🏻 ride of the year

Is fiction real? Of course not, says Percival Everett, but neither is reality. yalereview.org/article/perciv…

Catching up with this brilliant survey of the recent debates in Lit Studies (and a great recap on perennial relevance of Jameson). Strongly recommended!

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 Edinburgh University Press edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-j-m-coetz…

Delighted to announce a new article on Brexit fiction and the agonistic imagination w/ Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies on @realzadiesmith and David Szalay UvA Geesteswetenschappen - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our guest lecture 2023/4 finale, this Wednesday UvA Geesteswetenschappen . Free and open to all in Amsterdam!

Very happy to be shortlisted for this year's UvA Geesteswetenschappen Education Award! Please vote via the link: uva.nl/en/about-the-u…

NOW AVAILABLE OPEN ACCESS! The agonistic imagination: the illiberal and pluralist possibilities of contemporary BrexLit fiction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…