I'm delighted to be able to announce the launch of an open access project called the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). My colleague at Lincoln Dr Martin Paul Eve and I are the Academic Project Directors of this initiative, which will establish a journal and...

In June 2012 I launched an online journal of literary criticism called Alluvium. Martin Paul Eve is co-editing the journal with me, which publishes monthly articles on new directions in twenty-first century literature as well as twenty-first century critical approaches to the canon....

I've recently been involved in running the Capital Reading Group at the University of Lincoln, which meets every fortnight during term-time to read and discuss Marx's first volume of Das Kapital (in English – the Ben Fowkes translation). The group has a facebook page if you'd...

  This film screening series will accompany the third-year optional module on Science Fiction that I'm teaching in the Autumn term 2012. Week 1 | Origins Le Voyage dans La Lune (1902) (dir. Georges Méliès) Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) (dir....

During the course of organising the conference "Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives" (which took place in April 2011 at the University of Nottingham), Dr Michael Eades, Dr Adity Singh and I were approached by colleagues at the...

In April 2011 I worked with the lovely Emily Wilczek, who co-organises the not-for-profit arts organisation Annexinema. As part of the "Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives" conference at the University of Nottingham (which I...

Whilst researching my PhD at the University of Nottingham, I co-founded and co-organised the Marx Reading Group with my friends and colleagues Dr Adity Singh and Dr Alexander Dunst. To accompany the growing interest in the group, we decided to run annual film screenings of films and...

When I first joined the University of Nottingham's Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies to start my PhD research in 2006 I was keen to build on my reading of Frankfurt School ciritcal theory (my MA at the University of Warwick focused exclusively on critical theory). My...