In February 2008 and February 2010 I interviewed the novelist Jon McGregor whose first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury 2002), had been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and The Sunday...

In September 2009 I was invited to deliver a paper at the annual Workshops in Political Theory held at Manchester Metropolitan University. My paper explored the "inner-space fiction" of Doris Lessing through the conceptual framework of the philosophy of solidarity (as developed by...

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...

Having worked on Jim Crace's fiction as part of my PhD research, Fictions of the Not Yet: Time in the 21st Century British Novel, I was keen to meet the critically-acclaimed novelist and Jim kindly agreed to let me interview him at his house in Birmingham. Between numerous cups of tea I...

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...