In July 2009 I presented some of my work on Jacques Derrida's influential Sepcters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (Routledge, 1994) at the 10th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, held at the Unviersity of Porto in...

In 2008 I designed and taught half of the first- and second-year optional undergraduate module "Introduction to Postmodernism" at the University of Nottingham. For further information, you can view the module handbook here.   Image by Rene Passet a CC BY-NC-ND...

In June 2007 I delivered a paper on Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled (Faber & Faber, 1995) at Livepool Hope University at a conference organised by Dr Sebastian Groes, "Kazuo Ishiguro and the International Novel." The paper examined the relationship between space, place 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...

Since my undergraduate 10,000 word dissertation on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially-Symbolic Act (Cornell University Press, 1981), I've been fascinated by Jameson's immense ouevre. His publication of Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire...