Publications


Books

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Journal Articles

Cynicism and the Cultural Imaginary: Bret Easton Ellis’ Imperial Bedrooms in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Vol 42, No 1 (2015). DOI:10.1353/lit.2015.0000

Consumerism’s Endgame: Violence and Community in J.G. Ballard’s late fiction’ in Journal of Modern Literature,Vol 36, No 2 (2013). DOI: 10.2979/jmodelite.36.2.122

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Book Chapters

The Future of English in AsiaIn Need of a Foreign Trademark: English Literature in Mainland China in The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature, ed. Michael O’Sullivan, David Huddart, and Carmen Lee (London: Routledge, 2015).

 

(Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late in Violence and the Limits of Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

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Conference Papers

‘Class, Nation, and Gender in Yan Geling’s The Flowers of War at What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, July 2014

‘J.G. Ballard’s Inner Space and the Streets of Shanghai’ at Landscapes of Tomorrow: J.G. Ballard in Space and Time, University of Leeds, May 2014

‘Why Teach English Literature in Mainland China?’ at The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2013

‘The Unfailing Regularity of Dr. Busner’: Will Self and the Psychiatrists’ at Will Self and the Art of the Contemporary, University of Roehampton, London, March 2013.

‘Infection on Film: Biopolitics and the Imperative of Health’ at Film-Philosophy 2012, King’s College, London, Sept 2012

‘Intentionality and Truth: Satire in the Twenty-First Century’ at What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English, University of Lincoln, July 2012

‘Biopolitics and the Privatization of the NHS’ at London Conference of Critical Thought 2012, Birkbeck, University of London, June 2012

‘From the Cinematic to the Medical: Exploring the Vicissitudes of the Gaze in A Serbian Film (Spasojevic, 2010)’ at Film-Philosophy 2011, Liverpool John Moores University, July 2011

‘Money, Medicine and Myth: The Experience of the Clinic in Will Self’s Liver’ at From the Cradle to the Grave: Reciprocity and Exchange in the Making of Medicine and the Modern Arts, University of Exeter, April 2011

‘Desire, Enjoyment and Lack: Representations of Health in Computer Games’ at The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011, Panteion University, Athens, April 2011

‘Prostitution, Tourism and the Politics of Enjoyment in Houellebecq and Home’ at Representations of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking Between the 19th and 21st Centuries, University of Exeter, Sept 2010

‘Satire, Fantasy and the Logic of the One: From Horace to Hesse’ at Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Middlesex University, June 2010

‘Shit, Satire and Psychoanalysis: Sounding Out the Limits of Transgressive Practice’ at Transgression and its Limits, University of Stirling, May 2010

‘Will Self’s Cock and Bull: A Lacanian Intervention into Contemporary Gender Politics’ at Sexuality, Textuality, Image, University of Exeter, Sept 2008

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Editorials

‘Oral English Learning in Mainland China’by Hanbing Tong and Momo Fan in English Teaching in China Vol. 3 (2014).

Film-Philosophy. Editorial Assistant: Vol 16, No 1-2 (2012); Vol 17, No 1-2 (2013).

Critical Quarterly. Editorial Assistant: Vol 50, No 1-4 (2008); Vol 51, No 1-4 (2009).

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Reviews

Cynicism in British Post-War Culture: Ignorance, Dust and Disease by Kieran Curran in Literature and HistoryVol. 24, Issue 2, 2015.

British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 by David Tucker in Literature and History, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2012, p. 105-6.

The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment by Scott Wilson in Textual Practice, Vol.24, Issue 2010, p. 388-393.

The Porcelain Workshop and Goodbye Mister Socialism by Antonio Negri in Textual Practice, Vol. 23, Issue 3,p. 531-536

The Odd One In by Alenka Zupančič in Textual Practice, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 2008, p. 814-819.

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