Modernist, Contemporary-ist(?). Author of: Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in C20th Literature (CUP, 2017). Views my own.
Manchester, England
Joined September 2017
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So very pleased to say that my article "Kazuo Ishiguro's Nonactors" is out with @novelforum. Thanks to @TBewes and co-contributors for what I honestly think is an excellent issue
In "The Anagonist," a new @novelforum issue edited by @TBewes, contributors propose a new type of hero: the anagonist, who generally does not act, or if they do, the action is inconsequential to the work. Pick up a copy for only $7.50 with code FALL2020! ow.ly/djYo50CiEVf
Proud to be part of this issue! Thanks to the blind peer reviewers and to ENSFR: the keynote I gave at the 2023 conference is how this began.
Contemporary Literature issue 67.2 is out now, featuring exciting new work from Maria Christou, Penny Fielding, Sophia Gatzionis, Mara Reisman, Caitlin Simmons, and Nicole Dib! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curre…
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Contemporary Literature issue 67.2 is out now, featuring exciting new work from Maria Christou, Penny Fielding, Sophia Gatzionis, Mara Reisman, Caitlin Simmons, and Nicole Dib! Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curre…
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Issue 67.2 highlight: Maria Christou writes about the "literary heroic" and a conceptually flexible understanding of heroism. Read it here: cl.uwpress.org/content/curre…
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Another contributor profile for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis:
Today's spotlight is Maria Christou, @MariaChristou_ , whose essay "Banality, Evil, and Bearing Witness in Martin Amis’s Holocaust Novels" leads off the Politics and Public Memory section of the book.
Dr. Christou will be appearing with me and 7 other panelists at our London launch event on August 25th with @jackaldane , @wself and @mymartinamis . We would love to see you there.
Book ("Look Inside" PDFs): cambridge.org/us/universityp…
Tickets: trybooking.com/uk/events/lan…
Exhibition Launch: "The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow". *Manchester Museum, December 2, 2pm* Come and have a glass of wine (or something more sensible!) while exploring some super interesting artefacts we used to predict the future! Funded by the @BritishAcademy_
Exhibits include a rare copy of a board game designed by RAND Corporation employees, materials like uranium, tarot cards, as well as an original animated film by the brilliant @DanielaSherer , itself accompanied by an original score (also commissioned for this)!
This exhibition is the result of team work and I am very happy (and privileged) to have worked with @LiseRButler and @OrRosenboim on the research that underpins it as well as with Renee Melton-Klein, Connie Evans, and Chris Griffiths on the curatorial side of things.
Exhibition launch! Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow. December 2, 2pm. Manchester Museum, Kanaris Research Gallery. Info about the exhibition here: museum.manchester.ac.uk/even…
There will be wine, and more sensible stuff to eat and drink. 2 pm, December 2, Manchester Museum. Book here for free:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-ev…
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Enroute to Cambridge tonight for the first workshop of our @BritishAcademy_ funded project ‘Getting it Wrong: The limits to prediction’ with @MariaChristou_ @OrRosenboim and @ruthamorgan - and doesn’t the programme look amazing??
Watch out for the publication of this new OUP collection of #WilliamMorris's poetry, prose and letters, edited by the amazing Ingrid Hanson of @UoMSALC
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Couldn’t be prouder of my PhD student @rowe__irvin for landing her first book deal! Of course I already knew she was a brilliant writer and critic 😉
LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH flapping ur way in Spring 2025
thank you thank you thank you @agent_luck @canongatebooks
in @thebookseller today ✨
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I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes…
At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh..
It was comfy, it was quiet
In hindsight, too good to last…
I read this in English and thought it was excellent. Would happily read it in Greek too!
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Very pleased to say that @MariaChristou_ , @ruthamorgan, @OrRosenboim and myself have been awarded £50K in @BritishAcademy_ Knowledge Frontiers funding for our project 'Getting it Wrong: The Limits to Prediction', looking at how failed predictions have shaped our world./
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I'm very excited to join forces with @LiseRButler @ruthamorgan and @MariaChristou_ to explore what goes wrong when people try to predict the future, funded by @BritishAcademy_ . I foresee wonderful intellectual exchanges ahead...
Very pleased to say that @MariaChristou_ , @ruthamorgan, @OrRosenboim and myself have been awarded £50K in @BritishAcademy_ Knowledge Frontiers funding for our project 'Getting it Wrong: The Limits to Prediction', looking at how failed predictions have shaped our world./
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Together we can achieve #PayRestoration.
Here's what junior doctors had to say from the picket lines today 📣👇