I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled “Mapping Imaginary Topographies and Times: Literary Utopias from the Renaissance to the Present.” Since I’m currently writing a...

Birkbeck's Centre for Contemporary Literature recently organised a one-day conference titled "Dystopia Now," held at the School of Arts on 26 May 2017. I was really thrilled to be asked to deliver the opening keynote for the conference, alongside Dr Mark Bould who gave the...

In June 2017, I'll be returning to the Speculations Lecture Series run at King's College London to deliver a lecture on “Islands at the End of the World: The Pseudo-Apocalypses of Claire Fuller and Sam Taylor.” The talk will consider an intriguing sub-set of...