After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I was thrilled to be invited by BBC radio producer Phil Tinline to contribute to a radio...

I was delighted to be asked to chair a recent panel discussion for the British Academy on Dystopian Literature in Our Time. The panel brought together three important contemporary writers, Season Butler (author of Cygnet, 2019), Francesca Haig (author of The Fire Sermon trilogy, 2014-17) and...

It's almost 2 years since I founded the open access journal Alluvium, which publishes short, topical articles written by leading academics on 21-century writing and 21st-century literary criticism. Launched in June 2012 with my colleague Dr Martin Eve, the journal has gone from strength...

I'm delighted to be able to announce that the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who have provided a substantial start-up grant to the University of Lincoln to build the technological platform, business model and prepare for launching both...

I recently designed the new website for Birkbeck's Centre for Contemporary Literature, working closely with my colleague and Director of the Centre, Dr Joe Brooker. The Centre supports cutting-edge research into late 20th and 21st-century literature by the vibrant postgraduate and...