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Professor Michael Gardiner

Professor

Tel: ext. 73090
Email: m.gardiner@warwick.ac.uk

Office: FAB 5.55

About

Michael Gardiner has been at Warwick since 2007


Research interests

Twentieth-century cultural history
Cultural theory
Ideas of Britishness and post-Britishness
Euro-East Asian cultural relations
Culture and politics of nuclear deterrence


Teaching and supervision

Current modules as on right; recent and current PhD supervision includes work on datings of capitalist realism, Englishness in contemporary fiction, the mid-C20 British grammar school, neo-Victorian manga, the afterlives and later comparative significance of Kyoto School philosophy, and the secret in contemporary fiction


Selected publications

Selected recent publications:

Nuclear Fictions: Violence and the Narration of the Anglosphere
(single-author book), EUP, forthcoming

'The Post-War Era', in ed. Duncan, The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature, CUP, forthcoming

Interviewed in Waiguo Wenxue Yanjiu// Foreign Literature Studies, Vol.45 No.6, 2023

'Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's In Praise of Shadows and Critical Transparency', Textual Practice, 2023

'Nuclear Weapons and Extinction as Progress', New Formations No.107-108, 2023

'Extinction and Independence in Scottish Wilderness Writing', Études Anglaises Vol.76 No.1, 2023

'Liberalism's Opiate Subjectivity: Dependency, Edinburgh, and Enlightenment', New Formations No.103, 2021

editor and introduction, Orwell and England, Macmillan, 2020

(co-author) 'Lithic Agency, Scottish Modernism, and the Politics of Nuclear War', Textual Practice Vol.34 No.6, 2020

'The Anglosphere as a Principle of Progress', in eds. Wellings and Mycock, The Anglosphere: Continuity, Dissonance and Location, OUP, 2019

'Nuclear Deficit: Why Nuclear Weapons are Natural, but Scotland Doesn't Need Nature', Humanities Vol.8 No.3, 2019

The British Stake in Japanese Modernity: Readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism (single-author book), Routledge, 2019

'Spark Versus Homo Economicus', Textual Practice 32-9, 2018

'Brexit and the Aesthetics of Anachronism', in ed. Robert Eaglestone, Brexit and Literature, Routledge, 2018

'Eco-catastrophe, arithmetic patriotism, and the Thatcherite promise of nature', New Formations No.93, 2018

Office Hours 2023-24:

Monday 16.00-17.00
Tuesday 15.00-16.00 (W10 15.45-16.45)
FAB 5.55

Teaching

Modules taught 2023-24:

EN2C7/ EN3C7 Devolutionary British Fiction (also convenor)

EN9C1 Critical Theory Today (also convenor)

PH107 Problems in Philosophy and Literature (also co-convenor)

BA Dissertations/ Personal Research Projects

MA Dissertations

Convenor, MA in Critical and Cultural Theory

Convenor, Philosophy and Literature

Resting 2023-24:

EN2K7/ EN3K7 Twentieth Century Avant-Gardes

EN2G5/ EN3G5 Disasters and the British Contemporary