Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway University of London
I’m Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and I’ve published widely on contemporary literature, European philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. I also write for non-academic audiences, and have spoken at many literary festivals and public events.
My most recent books are: The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Oxford UP, 2017), Literature: Why it matters (Polity, 2019) and Truth and Wonder: a literary introduction to Plato and Aristotle (2022) and, as editor or co-editor, Brexit and Literature (London: Routledge, 2018), English: Shared Futures (English Association Essays and Studies: Boydell and Brewer, 2018) and The Routledge Companion to Twenty First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge, 2019).
I’ve also written a free-access policy pamphlet ‘Powerful knowledge’, ‘cultural literacy’ and the study of literature in schools (Oxford: Wiley, 2021) for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
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What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
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