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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in Literature and have been at Nottinhgam since 2018. Before this, I taught literature at the University of Lancaster. I have a PhD in English (University of Lancaster) an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies (University of Lancaster) and a BA (hons) in English Literature (University of Central Lancashire).
I publish mainly in the field of contemporary literary studies, but have also published work in critical and media theory, film studies, and global literary studies. My first monograph was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press, and is entitled Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory. I have published articles in a range of journals including Textual Practice, Novel: a Forum on Fiction, Critical Quarterly, and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
I am currently working on a book-length project entitled Visions of the Collective: Democracy and Fiction in the 21st Century. The book explores a resurgence of figurations of the collective form in contemporary culture, whilst interrogating how these figurations bear on the question of democracy. For the duration of 2026, I will be taking up a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in order to complete this book.
Expertise Summary
My research interests include modern and contemporary literature; modern and contemporary cinema; global/world literatures; critical theory and criticism; and contemporary theories and philosophies of media. I would be very happy to supervise PhD students in any of these areas.
Teaching Summary
At Undergraduate level, I teach on the following modules: 糖心原创ing Literature; Modern and Contemporary Literature; Contemporary British Fiction; and One and Unequal: World Literature and English. At… read more
Recent Publications
JOEL EVANS, 2026. Critical Quarterly.
JOEL EVANS, 2025. Textual Practice.
JOEL EVANS, 2024. . In: DECLAN LLOYD and WARREN MORTIMER, eds., Digressions in Deep Time: Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts Lexington.
JOEL EVANS, 2023. American Literary History. 35(2), 1090-1092
At Undergraduate level, I teach on the following modules: 糖心原创ing Literature; Modern and Contemporary Literature; Contemporary British Fiction; and One and Unequal: World Literature and English. At MA level I teach on these modules: Literature in Britain Since 1950; Place, Region and Empire; World Utopia in the Early Twentieth Century; and World Literatures: From Theory to Text. I am the convenor One and Unequal and Place, Region, Empire.