Professor Neil Badmington BA (Exeter), MA, PhD (Wales)
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I am Professor of English Literature and have taught at Cardiff University since 1999. I was educated at the University of Exeter, the University of California (Santa Cruz), and Cardiff University.
I am the author of three books (with a fourth under contract), editor of over twenty volumes, and author of many essays. Please click on ‘Publications’ (above) for complete information.
Research interests
- Contemporary fiction, especially American.
- Film, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
- Poststructuralist critical and cultural theory, with an emphasis upon the work of Roland Barthes.
- Postmodern culture.
I welcome queries from potential PhD students whose plans overlap with any of my listed interests.
Academic activities
I am co-editor, with Emma Mason, of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. This journal is published by Oxford University Press for the English Association.
I am the founding editor of the journal Barthes Studies.
I write regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and I am a member of the editorial/advisory panels of:
- Revue Roland Barthes
- Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature
- Writing Technologies
- Études britanniques contemporaines
- CounterText
- Brill's Critical Posthumanisms book series.
I am a member of the Northern Theory School.
I have acted as undergraduate and postgraduate External Examiner at the University of Cambridge, Durham University, the University of Sussex, Lancaster University, the University of Malta, and Middlesex University. In 2008, I was appointed expert étranger for a panel of the Agence d'évaluation de la recherche de l'enseignement supérieur (AERES) assessing the quality of research at University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris XIII-Villetaneuse, and University of Paris-Dauphine.
PhD supervision
I am supervising or have supervised the following PhD theses:
- Of Zoogrammatology.
- Spectral-Scopics: Gazing at Ghosts in Women’s Supernatural Fiction, 1950-Present.
- Roland Barthes and English-Language Poetry, 1970-1990.
- Corporeal Ontology: Merleau-Ponty, Flesh and Posthumanism.
- Ill Seen Ill Said: Trauma, Representation and Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Post-war Writing.
- Deadly Light: Machen, Lovecraft and Evolutionary Theory.
- Untimely Aesthetics: Shakespeare, Anachronism and Presence (co-supervision with Melanie Bigold).
- The Literature of Replenishment: The Novels of Umberto Eco and J.M. Coetzee and John Barth's Definition of Postmodernist Fiction.
- The Posthuman Science Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.
- The Animal in Differance: Tracing the Boundaries of the Human in Post-Darwinian Culture.
Cyhoeddiad
2022
- Badmington, N. ed. 2022. Barthes Studies 8 [Journal issue]. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2022. Editorial (Volume 8). Barthes Studies 8, article number: 1.
- Badmington, N. 2022. How the Words Appear (Review of Laurence Simmons, Zizek Through Hitchcock [Palgrave, 2021]). In: Gottlieb, S. ed. Hitchcock Annual: Volume 25., Vol. 25. Columbia University Press, pp. 213-221.
- Badmington, N. 2022. Allez France!. Times Literary Supplement 27 May, pp. 18-18.
- Badmington, N. 2022. Foreword. In: Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition (by Catherine Belsey). Oxford University Press, pp. xvii-xviii.
2021
- Badmington, N. 2021. Roland Barthes in English: a guide to translations. Barthes Studies 7, pp. 149-223.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Editorial (Volume 7). Barthes Studies 7, pp. 1-1.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2021. Barthes Studies 7.. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Review of Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film. [Online]. Theory, Culture & Society. Available at: https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-patrick-ffrench-roland-barthes-and-film
- Badmington, N. 2021. Perpetual movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema. New York: State University of New York Press.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Brief scenes: Roland Barthes and the essay. In: Aquilina, M. ed. The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form. London and New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 49-62.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Approaching posthumanism. In: Sampanikou, E. D. and Stasienko, J. eds. Posthuman Studies Reader: Core Readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism., Vol. 2. Posthuman Studies Basel: Schwabe Verlag, pp. 167-174.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Catherine Belsey (1940-2021). Barthes Studies 6, pp. 85-86.
2020
- Badmington, N. 2020. Editorial: S/Z/L: Fifty years of S/Z. Barthes Studies 6, pp. 1-2.
- Badmington, N. 2020. Barthes studies 6: S/Z/L: fifty years of S/Z. Barthes Studies 6
- Badmington, N. 2020. An undefined something else: Barthes, culture, neutral life. Theory, Culture and Society 37(4), pp. 65-76. (10.1177/0263276420910493)
- Badmington, N. 2020. Hermaphrodite, Rosalba. Oxford Literary Review 42(2), pp. 136-139.
2019
- Badmington, N. 2019. Editorial (Volume 5). Barthes Studies 5, pp. 1-1.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2019. Barthes Studies 5: Roland Barthes and Greece, Ancient and Modern. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2019. Guided by Barthes: Fragments of a photo-journal. CounterText 5(1), pp. 114-134. (10.3366/count.2019.0153)
2018
- Badmington, N. 2018. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. by Clare O'Farrell (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 6034
- Badmington, N. ed. 2018. Barthes Studies 4. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2018. Editorial (Volume 4). Barthes Studies 4, pp. 1.
- Badmington, N. 2018. Roland Barthes, Album: Unpublished correspondence and texts [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 6004, pp. 30.
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. eds. 2018. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 26. Oxford University Press.
2017
- Badmington, N. 2017. Detours all the way. Barthes Studies 3, pp. 146-151.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2017. Barthes Studies 3. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2017. The bothersome details of the world: Richard Byrd, little America and the problem of retreat. Journal for Cultural Research 21(4), pp. 414-429. (10.1080/14797585.2017.1370491)
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. 2017. Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 25(1), pp. ix-x. (10.1093/ywcct/mbx023)
- Badmington, N. 2017. The afterlives of Roland Barthes. [Online]. RhysTranter.com. Available at: https://rhystranter.com/2017/02/20/neil-badmington-the-afterlives-of-roland-barthes/
- Badmington, N. ed. 2017. Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. 2017. An interview with Stephen Regan. [Online]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/pages/interview_with_stephen_regan
- Badmington, N. 2017. Roland Barthes. By Andy Stafford. London: Reaktion Books. 2015 [Book Review]. Modern Language Review 112(1), pp. 258-259. (10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0258)
- Badmington, N. 2017. Preface. In: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J. eds. Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Routledge, pp. xv-xvi.
- Badmington, N. 2017. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China. In: Badmington, N. ed. Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes. Routledge, pp. 101-121.
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. eds. 2017. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 25(1). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016
- Badmington, N. 2016. The afterlives of Roland Barthes. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Myth-lusting. Times Literary Supplement 5923, pp. 5.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Philip Watts, Roland Barthes' cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 5915, pp. 30-30.
- Badmington, N. and Grootes, B. 2016. 6 questions to .. Neil Badmington (interview by Britt Grootes). [Online]. Vol. Feb 22. WordPress. Available at: https://gemsugent.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/6-questions-to-neil-badmington/
- Badmington, N. 2016. Introduction: Deliberations: the journals of Roland Barthes. Textual Practice 30(2), pp. 205-208. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1129722)
- Badmington, N. 2016. Barthes in China. Times Literary Supplement 5888, pp. 6.
- Badmington, N. 2016. New observations. Gobannian 73, pp. 16-19.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China. Textual Practice 30(2), pp. 305-325. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1129733)
- Badmington, N. ed. 2016. Textual Practice 30.2. Special Issue: Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes. Taylor & Francis.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. eds. 2016. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2015
- Badmington, N. 2015. Follow that Vaporetto! (Review of Laurent Binet, La Septième fonction du langage [Paris: Grasset, 2015]).. Times Literary Supplement 5880, pp. 22-22.
- Badmington, N. 2015. Editorial: Roland Barthes at 100. Barthes Studies 1(1), pp. 1-5.
- Badmington, N. 2015. Very fine gifts: an interview with Chris Turner. Barthes Studies 1(1), pp. 158-164.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2015. Barthes Studes 1: special issue: Roland Barthes at 100. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. 2015. Preface. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultual Theory 23(1), pp. xi-xii. (10.1093/ywcct/mbv020)
- Badmington, N. 2015. Fiches and biographemes. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 17-18.
2014
- Badmington, N. 2014. Kathrin Yacavone, Benjamin, Barthes and the singularity of photography (London: Bloomsbury, 2012) [Book Review]. Journal of European Studies, 44.4 44(4), pp. 6-7. (10.1177/0047244114553765d)
- Badmington, N. 2014. Jacques Derrida, For Strasbourg: conversations of friendship and philosophy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 2014(20 Jun), pp. 30-30.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Cardiff: my personal geography. [Online]. We Are Cardiff. Available at: http://wearecardiff.co.uk/2014/03/13/cardiff-my-personal-geography-by-neil-badmington/
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume II. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume III. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. 2014. General introduction. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 1-6.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Chronological table. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. xiii-xix.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Teoretizarea Postumanismului. Post/h/um: Jurnal de studii (post)umaniste, pp. 7-22.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. eds. 2014. The year's work in critical and cultural theory: volume 22, issue 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Badmington, N. 2014. SpectRebecca. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 233-249.
2013
- Badmington, N. 2013. "Speech begins after death" - letter on Michel Foucault and translation. Times Literary Supplement 2013(7 Jun)
- Badmington, N. 2013. Michel Foucault, Speech begins after death (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 2013(17 May), pp. 27-27.
- Badmington, N. 2013. Kültürel Çalışmalar ve Post-İnsan Bimleri. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. Yeni Kültürel Çalışmalar : Kuramsal Serüvenler. Kitap, pp. 379-395.
2012
- Badmington, N. 2012. Plagiarism doesn't exist [Letter]. London Review of Books 34(23), pp. 5.
- Badmington, N. 2012. Punctum Saliens: Barthes, mourning, film, photography. Paragraph 35(3), pp. 303-319. (10.3366/para.2012.0061)
- Badmington, N. 2012. Unsettled. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 26-26.
- Badmington, N. 2012. Simon Glendinning, Derrida: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)[Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 27-27.
2011
- Badmington, N. 2011. Roland Barthes, Travels in China (Cambridge: Polity, 2011)[Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 38-38.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Robbe-Grillet, Alain: Why I love Barthes - 80pp, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011, Hardback £35.00, ISBN:9780745650784 [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 3.
- Badmington, N. 2011. English Barthes: letter on Roland Barthes. Times Literary Supplement 6, pp. 25.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Hitchcock's magic. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Sighs and citations. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 25.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Posthumanism. In: Booker, M. K. and Ryan, M. eds. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Volume III: Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1212-1216.
2010
- Badmington, N. and Pieters, J. 2010. Editors' foreword. Textual Practice: Special Issue: Literature and Culture: The Work of Catherine Belsey 24(6), pp. 951-951. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.521664)
- Badmington, N. 2010. Man saved by Wolfe. Electronic Book Review 2010(25 Oct)
- Badmington, N. 2010. The canon: mythologies by Roland Barthes. Times Higher Education 2010(Feb), pp. 49-49.
- Badmington, N. 2010. Danger! Keep out! Exploring culture with Catherine Belsey (and other animals). Textual Practice : Special Issue: Literature and Culture: The Work of Catherine Belsey 24(6), pp. 953-65. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.521665)
- Badmington, N. 2010. The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes. In: Badmington, N. ed. Roland Barthes: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 371-9.
- Badmington, N. 2010. Des jours sombres pour l’enseignement supérieur. Le SNESUP: Mensuel du Syndicat National de l’Enseignement Supérieur 590, pp. 22.
- Badmington, N. 2010. Posthumanism. In: Clarke, B. and Rossini, M. eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Routledge, pp. 374-384.
- Badmington, N. 2010. What are you reading?. Times Higher Education
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume I. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume II. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume III. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Pieters, J. eds. 2010. Literature and culture: the work of Catherine Belsey (special issue of Textual Practice). Routledge.
2009
- Badmington, N. 2009. Blade Runner's blade runners. Semiotica 173, pp. 471-489. (10.1515/SEMI.2009.022)
- Badmington, N. 2009. Babelation. In: Callus, I. and Herbrechter, S. eds. Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, pp. 60-72.
- Badmington, N. 2009. L'encroyable Roland Barthes. In: Badir, S. and Ducard, D. eds. Roland Barthes en cours (1977-1980): Un style de vie. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, pp. 145-52.
- Badmington, N. 2009. Introduction. In: Lavers, A. ed. Roland Barthes: Mythologies. London: Vintage, pp. ix-xiv.
2008
- Badmington, N. 2008. The 'inkredible' Roland Barthes. Paragraph 31(1), pp. 84-94. (10.3366/E0264833408000096)
- Badmington, N. and Thomas, J. eds. 2008. The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader. London: Routledge.
2007
- Badmington, N. 2007. ".. a drowning of the human in the physical": Jonathan Franzen and the corrections of humanism. Subject Matters 3(2), pp. -14.
- Badmington, N. 2007. I ain't got no body: Lyotard and Le Genre of posthumanism. In: Margret, G. ed. Gender After Lyotard. State University of New York Press, pp. 27-45.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2007. Derridanimals. Oxford Literary Review Vol. 29. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Badmington, N. 2007. Declaration of ink dependence. Writing Technologies 1(1), article number: 5.
- Badmington, N. 2007. Derridanimals. Oxford Literary Review 29(1), pp. v-vii. (10.3366/olr.2007.001)
- Badmington, N. 2007. Posthuman conditions. Subject Matters, pp. ix-xi.
2006
- Badmington, N. 2006. Cultural studies and the posthumanities. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. New Cultural Studies. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 260-272.
2005
- Badmington, N. 2005. Posthumanism. In: Malpas, S. and Wake, P. eds. The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. Routledge, pp. 240-241.
- Badmington, N. 2005. From critical practice to cultural criticism: an interview with Catherine Belsey. Textual Practice 19(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1080/0950236042000329618)
2004
- Badmington, N. 2004. I've got UFO under my skin. Times Higher Education, pp. 15-15.
- Badmington, N. 2004. Alien chic: posthumanism and the other within. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. 2004. Sarah Whatmore, Hybrid geographies: natures, cultures, spaces (London: Sage, 2002) [Book Review]. Cultural Geographies 11(2), pp. 230-231. (10.1177/147447400401100209)
- Badmington, N. 2004. Post, oblique, human. Theology & Sexuality 10(2), pp. 56-64. (10.1177/135583580401000205)
- Castree, N., Nash, C., Badmington, N., Braun, B., Murdoch, J. and Whatmore, S. 2004. Mapping posthumanism: an exchange. Environment and Planning A 36(8), pp. 1341-1363. (10.1068/a37127)
- Badmington, N. 2004. Roswell High, alien chic, and the in/human. In: Davis, G. and Dickinson, K. eds. Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity. BFI, pp. 166-176.
2003
- Badmington, N. 2003. Come on down!. The Guardian 2003(11 Jan), pp. 4-6.
- Badmington, N. 2003. Theorizing posthumanism. Cultural Critique 53(1), pp. 10-27. (10.1353/cul.2003.0017)
- Badmington, N. 2003. Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the post/human: monsters, aliens and others in popular culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002) [Book Review]. Textual Practice 16(1), pp. 146-149. (10.1080/09502360110108383)
2002
- Badmington, N. 2002. Revaluations: Pierre Macherey. The European English Messenger 11(1), pp. 65-68.
- Badmington, N. 2002. Iain Chambers, Culture after humanism: history, culture, subjectivity (London and New York: Routledge, 2001) [Book Review]. Textual Practice 16(1), pp. 188-191. (10.1080/09502360110108383)
2001
- Badmington, N. 2001. Scott Brewster, John J. Joughin, David Owen and Richard J. Walker, eds. Inhuman reflections: thinking the limits of the human (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000) [Book Review]. Notes and Queries 48(3), pp. 350-352. (10.1093/nq/48.3.35)
- Badmington, N. 2001. Pod almighty!; or, humanism, posthumanism, and the strange case of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Textual Practice 15(1), pp. 5-22. (10.1080/09502360010013848)
- Badmington, N. 2001. Pierre Macherey. The Literary Encyclopedia
- Badmington, N. 2001. Jean Baudrillard. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 42-42.
- Badmington, N. 2001. Ernesto Laclau. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 257-258.
- Badmington, N. 2001. Metanarrative. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 280-280.
2000
- Badmington, N. 2000. Mirror stage. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 283-283.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Parole. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 320-321.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Posthumanist (com)promises: diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass. In: Badmington, N. ed. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 85-97.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Slipstreaming with Lacan [Book Review]. Science Fiction Studies 27(2), pp. 321-325.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Disclosure's disclosure. In: Lay, F. and West, R. eds. Subverting masculinity: hegemonic and alternative versions of masculinity in contemporary culture. Rodopi, pp. 94-105.
1999
- Badmington, N. 1999. Theory 3 - English. Times Higher Education Supplement 30, pp. 19.
1998
- Badmington, N. 1998. A handbook of their own. Science Fiction Studies 42, pp. 539-543.
1995
- Badmington, N. 1995. Cruising the information superhighway: Computer-mediated communication, cultural landscapes, and the struggle over meaning. In: Gidley, M. and Lawson-Peebles, R. eds. Modern American Landscapes. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 275-291.
Articles
- Badmington, N. 2022. Editorial (Volume 8). Barthes Studies 8, article number: 1.
- Badmington, N. 2022. Allez France!. Times Literary Supplement 27 May, pp. 18-18.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Roland Barthes in English: a guide to translations. Barthes Studies 7, pp. 149-223.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Editorial (Volume 7). Barthes Studies 7, pp. 1-1.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Catherine Belsey (1940-2021). Barthes Studies 6, pp. 85-86.
- Badmington, N. 2020. Editorial: S/Z/L: Fifty years of S/Z. Barthes Studies 6, pp. 1-2.
- Badmington, N. 2020. Barthes studies 6: S/Z/L: fifty years of S/Z. Barthes Studies 6
- Badmington, N. 2020. An undefined something else: Barthes, culture, neutral life. Theory, Culture and Society 37(4), pp. 65-76. (10.1177/0263276420910493)
- Badmington, N. 2020. Hermaphrodite, Rosalba. Oxford Literary Review 42(2), pp. 136-139.
- Badmington, N. 2019. Editorial (Volume 5). Barthes Studies 5, pp. 1-1.
- Badmington, N. 2019. Guided by Barthes: Fragments of a photo-journal. CounterText 5(1), pp. 114-134. (10.3366/count.2019.0153)
- Badmington, N. 2018. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. by Clare O'Farrell (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 6034
- Badmington, N. 2018. Editorial (Volume 4). Barthes Studies 4, pp. 1.
- Badmington, N. 2018. Roland Barthes, Album: Unpublished correspondence and texts [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 6004, pp. 30.
- Badmington, N. 2017. Detours all the way. Barthes Studies 3, pp. 146-151.
- Badmington, N. 2017. The bothersome details of the world: Richard Byrd, little America and the problem of retreat. Journal for Cultural Research 21(4), pp. 414-429. (10.1080/14797585.2017.1370491)
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. 2017. Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 25(1), pp. ix-x. (10.1093/ywcct/mbx023)
- Badmington, N. 2017. Roland Barthes. By Andy Stafford. London: Reaktion Books. 2015 [Book Review]. Modern Language Review 112(1), pp. 258-259. (10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0258)
- Badmington, N. 2016. Myth-lusting. Times Literary Supplement 5923, pp. 5.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Philip Watts, Roland Barthes' cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 5915, pp. 30-30.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Introduction: Deliberations: the journals of Roland Barthes. Textual Practice 30(2), pp. 205-208. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1129722)
- Badmington, N. 2016. Barthes in China. Times Literary Supplement 5888, pp. 6.
- Badmington, N. 2016. New observations. Gobannian 73, pp. 16-19.
- Badmington, N. 2016. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China. Textual Practice 30(2), pp. 305-325. (10.1080/0950236X.2016.1129733)
- Badmington, N. 2015. Follow that Vaporetto! (Review of Laurent Binet, La Septième fonction du langage [Paris: Grasset, 2015]).. Times Literary Supplement 5880, pp. 22-22.
- Badmington, N. 2015. Editorial: Roland Barthes at 100. Barthes Studies 1(1), pp. 1-5.
- Badmington, N. 2015. Very fine gifts: an interview with Chris Turner. Barthes Studies 1(1), pp. 158-164.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. 2015. Preface. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultual Theory 23(1), pp. xi-xii. (10.1093/ywcct/mbv020)
- Badmington, N. 2015. Fiches and biographemes. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 17-18.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Kathrin Yacavone, Benjamin, Barthes and the singularity of photography (London: Bloomsbury, 2012) [Book Review]. Journal of European Studies, 44.4 44(4), pp. 6-7. (10.1177/0047244114553765d)
- Badmington, N. 2014. Jacques Derrida, For Strasbourg: conversations of friendship and philosophy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 2014(20 Jun), pp. 30-30.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Teoretizarea Postumanismului. Post/h/um: Jurnal de studii (post)umaniste, pp. 7-22.
- Badmington, N. 2013. "Speech begins after death" - letter on Michel Foucault and translation. Times Literary Supplement 2013(7 Jun)
- Badmington, N. 2013. Michel Foucault, Speech begins after death (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013) [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement 2013(17 May), pp. 27-27.
- Badmington, N. 2012. Plagiarism doesn't exist [Letter]. London Review of Books 34(23), pp. 5.
- Badmington, N. 2012. Punctum Saliens: Barthes, mourning, film, photography. Paragraph 35(3), pp. 303-319. (10.3366/para.2012.0061)
- Badmington, N. 2012. Unsettled. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 26-26.
- Badmington, N. 2012. Simon Glendinning, Derrida: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)[Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 27-27.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Roland Barthes, Travels in China (Cambridge: Polity, 2011)[Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 38-38.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Robbe-Grillet, Alain: Why I love Barthes - 80pp, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011, Hardback £35.00, ISBN:9780745650784 [Book Review]. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 3.
- Badmington, N. 2011. English Barthes: letter on Roland Barthes. Times Literary Supplement 6, pp. 25.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Sighs and citations. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 25.
- Badmington, N. and Pieters, J. 2010. Editors' foreword. Textual Practice: Special Issue: Literature and Culture: The Work of Catherine Belsey 24(6), pp. 951-951. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.521664)
- Badmington, N. 2010. Man saved by Wolfe. Electronic Book Review 2010(25 Oct)
- Badmington, N. 2010. The canon: mythologies by Roland Barthes. Times Higher Education 2010(Feb), pp. 49-49.
- Badmington, N. 2010. Danger! Keep out! Exploring culture with Catherine Belsey (and other animals). Textual Practice : Special Issue: Literature and Culture: The Work of Catherine Belsey 24(6), pp. 953-65. (10.1080/0950236X.2010.521665)
- Badmington, N. 2010. Des jours sombres pour l’enseignement supérieur. Le SNESUP: Mensuel du Syndicat National de l’Enseignement Supérieur 590, pp. 22.
- Badmington, N. 2010. What are you reading?. Times Higher Education
- Badmington, N. 2009. Blade Runner's blade runners. Semiotica 173, pp. 471-489. (10.1515/SEMI.2009.022)
- Badmington, N. 2008. The 'inkredible' Roland Barthes. Paragraph 31(1), pp. 84-94. (10.3366/E0264833408000096)
- Badmington, N. 2007. ".. a drowning of the human in the physical": Jonathan Franzen and the corrections of humanism. Subject Matters 3(2), pp. -14.
- Badmington, N. 2007. Declaration of ink dependence. Writing Technologies 1(1), article number: 5.
- Badmington, N. 2007. Derridanimals. Oxford Literary Review 29(1), pp. v-vii. (10.3366/olr.2007.001)
- Badmington, N. 2007. Posthuman conditions. Subject Matters, pp. ix-xi.
- Badmington, N. 2005. From critical practice to cultural criticism: an interview with Catherine Belsey. Textual Practice 19(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1080/0950236042000329618)
- Badmington, N. 2004. I've got UFO under my skin. Times Higher Education, pp. 15-15.
- Badmington, N. 2004. Sarah Whatmore, Hybrid geographies: natures, cultures, spaces (London: Sage, 2002) [Book Review]. Cultural Geographies 11(2), pp. 230-231. (10.1177/147447400401100209)
- Badmington, N. 2004. Post, oblique, human. Theology & Sexuality 10(2), pp. 56-64. (10.1177/135583580401000205)
- Castree, N., Nash, C., Badmington, N., Braun, B., Murdoch, J. and Whatmore, S. 2004. Mapping posthumanism: an exchange. Environment and Planning A 36(8), pp. 1341-1363. (10.1068/a37127)
- Badmington, N. 2003. Come on down!. The Guardian 2003(11 Jan), pp. 4-6.
- Badmington, N. 2003. Theorizing posthumanism. Cultural Critique 53(1), pp. 10-27. (10.1353/cul.2003.0017)
- Badmington, N. 2003. Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the post/human: monsters, aliens and others in popular culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002) [Book Review]. Textual Practice 16(1), pp. 146-149. (10.1080/09502360110108383)
- Badmington, N. 2002. Revaluations: Pierre Macherey. The European English Messenger 11(1), pp. 65-68.
- Badmington, N. 2002. Iain Chambers, Culture after humanism: history, culture, subjectivity (London and New York: Routledge, 2001) [Book Review]. Textual Practice 16(1), pp. 188-191. (10.1080/09502360110108383)
- Badmington, N. 2001. Scott Brewster, John J. Joughin, David Owen and Richard J. Walker, eds. Inhuman reflections: thinking the limits of the human (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000) [Book Review]. Notes and Queries 48(3), pp. 350-352. (10.1093/nq/48.3.35)
- Badmington, N. 2001. Pod almighty!; or, humanism, posthumanism, and the strange case of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Textual Practice 15(1), pp. 5-22. (10.1080/09502360010013848)
- Badmington, N. 2001. Pierre Macherey. The Literary Encyclopedia
- Badmington, N. 2000. Slipstreaming with Lacan [Book Review]. Science Fiction Studies 27(2), pp. 321-325.
- Badmington, N. 1999. Theory 3 - English. Times Higher Education Supplement 30, pp. 19.
- Badmington, N. 1998. A handbook of their own. Science Fiction Studies 42, pp. 539-543.
Book sections
- Badmington, N. 2022. How the Words Appear (Review of Laurence Simmons, Zizek Through Hitchcock [Palgrave, 2021]). In: Gottlieb, S. ed. Hitchcock Annual: Volume 25., Vol. 25. Columbia University Press, pp. 213-221.
- Badmington, N. 2022. Foreword. In: Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition (by Catherine Belsey). Oxford University Press, pp. xvii-xviii.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Brief scenes: Roland Barthes and the essay. In: Aquilina, M. ed. The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form. London and New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 49-62.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Approaching posthumanism. In: Sampanikou, E. D. and Stasienko, J. eds. Posthuman Studies Reader: Core Readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism., Vol. 2. Posthuman Studies Basel: Schwabe Verlag, pp. 167-174.
- Badmington, N. 2017. Preface. In: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J. eds. Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Routledge, pp. xv-xvi.
- Badmington, N. 2017. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China. In: Badmington, N. ed. Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes. Routledge, pp. 101-121.
- Badmington, N. 2014. General introduction. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 1-6.
- Badmington, N. 2014. Chronological table. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. xiii-xix.
- Badmington, N. 2014. SpectRebecca. In: Badmington, N. ed. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers London: Routledge, pp. 233-249.
- Badmington, N. 2013. Kültürel Çalışmalar ve Post-İnsan Bimleri. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. Yeni Kültürel Çalışmalar : Kuramsal Serüvenler. Kitap, pp. 379-395.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Posthumanism. In: Booker, M. K. and Ryan, M. eds. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Volume III: Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1212-1216.
- Badmington, N. 2010. The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes. In: Badmington, N. ed. Roland Barthes: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory., Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 371-9.
- Badmington, N. 2010. Posthumanism. In: Clarke, B. and Rossini, M. eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Routledge, pp. 374-384.
- Badmington, N. 2009. Babelation. In: Callus, I. and Herbrechter, S. eds. Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, pp. 60-72.
- Badmington, N. 2009. L'encroyable Roland Barthes. In: Badir, S. and Ducard, D. eds. Roland Barthes en cours (1977-1980): Un style de vie. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, pp. 145-52.
- Badmington, N. 2009. Introduction. In: Lavers, A. ed. Roland Barthes: Mythologies. London: Vintage, pp. ix-xiv.
- Badmington, N. 2007. I ain't got no body: Lyotard and Le Genre of posthumanism. In: Margret, G. ed. Gender After Lyotard. State University of New York Press, pp. 27-45.
- Badmington, N. 2006. Cultural studies and the posthumanities. In: Hall, G. and Birchall, C. eds. New Cultural Studies. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 260-272.
- Badmington, N. 2005. Posthumanism. In: Malpas, S. and Wake, P. eds. The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. Routledge, pp. 240-241.
- Badmington, N. 2004. Roswell High, alien chic, and the in/human. In: Davis, G. and Dickinson, K. eds. Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity. BFI, pp. 166-176.
- Badmington, N. 2001. Jean Baudrillard. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 42-42.
- Badmington, N. 2001. Ernesto Laclau. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, pp. 257-258.
- Badmington, N. 2001. Metanarrative. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 280-280.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Mirror stage. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 283-283.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Parole. In: Pearson, R. E. and Simpson, P. eds. Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 320-321.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Posthumanist (com)promises: diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass. In: Badmington, N. ed. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 85-97.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Disclosure's disclosure. In: Lay, F. and West, R. eds. Subverting masculinity: hegemonic and alternative versions of masculinity in contemporary culture. Rodopi, pp. 94-105.
- Badmington, N. 1995. Cruising the information superhighway: Computer-mediated communication, cultural landscapes, and the struggle over meaning. In: Gidley, M. and Lawson-Peebles, R. eds. Modern American Landscapes. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 275-291.
Books
- Badmington, N. ed. 2022. Barthes Studies 8 [Journal issue]. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2021. Barthes Studies 7.. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. 2021. Perpetual movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema. New York: State University of New York Press.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2019. Barthes Studies 5: Roland Barthes and Greece, Ancient and Modern. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2018. Barthes Studies 4. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. eds. 2018. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 26. Oxford University Press.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2017. Barthes Studies 3. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2017. Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. eds. 2017. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 25(1). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Badmington, N. 2016. The afterlives of Roland Barthes. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2016. Textual Practice 30.2. Special Issue: Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes. Taylor & Francis.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. eds. 2016. The year's work in critical and cultural theory 24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2015. Barthes Studes 1: special issue: Roland Barthes at 100. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume I. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume II. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume III. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2014. Alfred Hitchcock: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Tucker, D. eds. 2014. The year's work in critical and cultural theory: volume 22, issue 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Badmington, N. 2011. Hitchcock's magic. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume I. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume II. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume III. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2010. Roland Barthes: Volume IV. Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Pieters, J. eds. 2010. Literature and culture: the work of Catherine Belsey (special issue of Textual Practice). Routledge.
- Badmington, N. and Thomas, J. eds. 2008. The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. ed. 2007. Derridanimals. Oxford Literary Review Vol. 29. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Badmington, N. 2004. Alien chic: posthumanism and the other within. London: Routledge.
- Badmington, N. 2000. Posthumanism. Readers in Cultural Criticism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Websites
- Badmington, N. 2021. Review of Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film. [Online]. Theory, Culture & Society. Available at: https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-patrick-ffrench-roland-barthes-and-film
- Badmington, N. 2017. The afterlives of Roland Barthes. [Online]. RhysTranter.com. Available at: https://rhystranter.com/2017/02/20/neil-badmington-the-afterlives-of-roland-barthes/
- Badmington, N. and Mason, E. 2017. An interview with Stephen Regan. [Online]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/pages/interview_with_stephen_regan
- Badmington, N. and Grootes, B. 2016. 6 questions to .. Neil Badmington (interview by Britt Grootes). [Online]. Vol. Feb 22. WordPress. Available at: https://gemsugent.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/6-questions-to-neil-badmington/
- Badmington, N. 2014. Cardiff: my personal geography. [Online]. We Are Cardiff. Available at: http://wearecardiff.co.uk/2014/03/13/cardiff-my-personal-geography-by-neil-badmington/
Ymchwil
Diddordebau ymchwil
- Ffilm, yn enwedig gwaith Alfred Hitchcock.
- Ysgrifennu cyfoes, yn enwedig Americanaidd.
- Theori feirniadol a diwylliannol ôl-strwythurol, gyda phwyslais ar waith Roland Barthes.
- Beirniadaeth greadigol.
- diwylliant ôl-fodern.
Rwy'n croesawu ymholiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr PhD y mae eu cynlluniau'n gorgyffwrdd ag unrhyw un o'm diddordebau rhestredig.
Treuliais ddegawd cyntaf fy ngyrfa yn gweithio'n helaeth ym maes ôl-ddyneiddiaeth a oedd yn dod i'r amlwg ar y pryd, ond nid wyf wedi ysgrifennu gair am y pwnc ers 2010 ac ni fyddaf yn gwneud hynny rhwng nawr a diwedd fy ngyrfa.
Prosiectau ymchwil (presennol a gorffennol)
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n gweithio ar y canlynol:
- Dan arweiniad Barthes – prosiect creadigol-beirniadol hyd llyfr sy'n cymryd gwaith Roland Barthes fel ei dywysydd.
- Traethawd ar Anthony Adverse gan Mervyn LeRoy ar gyfer casgliad o'r enw Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town, a olygwyd gan Murray Pomerance ac R. Barton Palmer ar gyfer Gwasg Prifysgol Rutgers.
- Cyfrol 9 o Astudiaethau Barthes. Bydd hyn yn cael ei gyhoeddi ar 12 Tachwedd 2023.
- Traethawd ar Hitchcock's Rope ar gyfer casgliad o'r enw Re-Viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives, a olygwyd gan Robert E. Kapsis ar gyfer Bloomsbury/BFI.
Mae'r prosiectau a gwblhawyd yn ddiweddar yn cynnwys:
- Llyfr o'r enw Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope for the Horizons of Cinema series a olygwyd gan Murray Pomerance ar gyfer SUNY Press, Efrog Newydd. Dyma'r astudiaeth gyntaf o Rope i gael ei chyhoeddi yn Saesneg, ac mae'n gwneud defnydd gwreiddiol helaeth o ddeunyddiau archifol a gedwir yn Archif Warner Bros. yn Los Angeles ac yn Llyfrgell Margaret Herrick, Beverly Hills. Cyhoeddwyd y llyfr yn galed ym mis Gorffennaf 2021 ac mewn clawr papur ym mis Ionawr 2022.
- Gweld drwodd i gyhoeddi ail rifyn Catherine Belsey's Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction. Roedd Kate yn gwneud ei newidiadau olaf i'r llyfr hwn pan gafodd ei chludo i'r ysbyty ddiwedd 2020; Bu farw ym mis Chwefror 2021. Ar gais ei theulu, fe wnes i gwblhau'r testun i'w gyhoeddi gan ddefnyddio dwy ffynhonnell: ffeil o gyfrifiadur Kate a theipysgrif gydag anodiadau wedi'u hysgrifennu â llaw a ganfuwyd ar ei desg. Cyhoeddwyd y llyfr gan Oxford University Press ym mis Awst 2022.
- Adolygiad o Évocations et Incantations gan Roland Barthes dans la tragédie grecque ar gyfer y Times Literary Supplement. Mae'r darn hwn yn y wasg ac yn aros am ddyddiad cyhoeddi.
- 'Allez France!' – adolygiad ar gyfer The Times Literary Supplement of The French Mind gan Peter Watson a France: An Adventure History gan Graham Robb. Cyhoeddwyd yr erthygl hon yn rhifyn y TLS dyddiedig 27 Mai 2022 (mae fersiwn ar-lein ar gael trwy'r ddolen hon) ac fe'i trafodwyd gan Russell Williams ym Mhadlediad TLS yr wythnos honno.
- 'How the Words Appear' – adolygiad hir o Žižek gan Laurence Simmons drwy Hitchcock ar gyfer cyfrol 25 o'r Hitchcock Annual.
- Cyfrol 8 o Astudiaethau Barthes. Cyhoeddwyd hwn ar 12 Tachwedd 2022.
- 'Roland Barthes in English: A Guide to Translations'. Mae'r adnodd cyfeirio mynediad agored 12,000 o eiriau hwn yn rhoi manylion yr holl gyfieithiadau Saesneg o waith Roland Barthes.
Bywgraffiad
Biography
I was born and grew up in the small town of Abergavenny in the Welsh borderlands. After attending my local comprehensive school, I became the first person in my family to attend university when I went to Exeter to study American and Commonwealth Arts (1990-94). A year abroad at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1992-93 introduced me for the first time to critical and cultural theory, and I went on to study for an MA and PhD in this field at Cardiff University (1995-98), under the supervision of Catherine Belsey. On completing my PhD in late 1998, I was appointed to the department.
Education and qualifications
1995-98: PhD, Cardiff University. (British Academy Studentship.) Supervisor: Catherine Belsey.
1994-95: MA in Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University. (British Academy Studentship.)
1992-93: University of California, Santa Cruz. (Junior Year Abroad scheme.)
1990-94: BA in American and Commonwealth Arts, University of Exeter. Class I. Winner, Exeter Literary Society Prize, 1994. Winner, David Henderson Award, 1994.
1982-89: King Henry VIII Comprehensive School, Abergavenny.
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
2009-15: Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University
2005-9: Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University
2001-5: Lecturer (B) in English Literature, Cardiff University
1999-2001: Lecturer (A) in English Literature, Cardiff University
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
I am the founding editor of the journal Barthes Studies and a member of the editorial/advisory panels of:
- Revue Roland Barthes
- CounterText
- Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature
- Writing Technologies
- Études britanniques contemporaines
- Brill's Critical Posthumanisms book series.
I am a member of the Northern Theory School and an advisor to the Critical Posthumanism Network.
I have assessed research grant applications externally for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Belgium). In 2008, I was appointed expert étranger for a panel of the Agence d'évaluation de la recherche de l'enseignement supérieur (AERES) assessing the quality of research at University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris XIII-Villetaneuse, and University of Paris-Dauphine.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I welcome applications or informal queries relating to PhD supervision in research areas which overlap with my own:
- Contemporary fiction, especially American.
- Film, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
- Poststructuralist critical and cultural theory, with an emphasis upon the work of Roland Barthes.
- Postmodern culture.
I am supervising or have supervised the following PhD theses:
- Of Zoogrammatology.
- Spectral-Scopics: Gazing at Ghosts in Women’s Supernatural Fiction, 1950-Present.
- Roland Barthes and English-Language Poetry, 1970-1990.
- Corporeal Ontology: Merleau-Ponty, Flesh and Posthumanism.
- Ill Seen Ill Said: Trauma, Representation and Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Post-war Writing.
- Deadly Light: Machen, Lovecraft and Evolutionary Theory.
- Untimely Aesthetics: Shakespeare, Anachronism and Presence (co-supervision with Dr Melanie Bigold).
- The Literature of Replenishment: The Novels of Umberto Eco and J.M. Coetzee and John Barth's Definition of Postmodernist Fiction.
- The Posthuman Science Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.
- The Animal in Differance: Tracing the Boundaries of the Human in Post-Darwinian Culture.