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Dr Josh Robinson

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Overview

I work primarily on twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, and on the theoretical implications of the study of literature. I am particularly concerned with what close attention to innovative and experimental poetry can reveal about the categories that underpin the dominant narratives  of modernism and modernity, and with the implications of the critique of political economy that considers the ways in which many of our concepts are saturated with frequently unseen implications of economic transactions and power relations.

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Research

My main current project is a monograph, The Poetics of Late Modernism, which addresses the late twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetic legacies of high modernism.

From 2014 I am also writing the 'Poetics' article of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (covering work published from 2012).

Research interests

  • Adorno
  • literary and aesthetic form
  • English-language and comparative poetics (particularly in modernist and contemporary literature)
  • conceptuality, conceptual archaeologies and networks
  • the experimental lyric
  • negative dialectic
  • Marx and critical Marxism
  • value and the commodity-form
  • the rhetoric of antisemitism
  • philosophical aesthetics
  • relationships between philosophical and literary modernism

I welcome applications from potential PhD students whose plans overlap with any of my listed interests. Informal enquiries are always welcome.

Biography

I came to Cardiff as a Lecturer in 2013, prior to which I was a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge. I completed my graduate studies at the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, during which I also spent time as a visiting Research Fellow at the Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Honours and awards

2008– Affiliated Professor, University of Haifa, Israel

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Active memberships include: American Comparative Literature Association; British Comparative Literature Association; British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies; Marxist Literary Group; University and College Union

Academic positions

Committees and reviewing

  • Referee for Columbia UP, Cambridge UP, Edinbugh UP, SUNY Press, Bloomsbury Academic
  • Referee for journals including British Journal of Aesthetics, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
  • 2025–: Reviewer, Polish National Science Centre
  • 2022–: Secretary, British Comparative Literature Association (Committee Member since 2019)
  • 2017–: Outer International Assessment Board, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
  • 2016–: Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • 2015–: International Editorial Board, Intersectional Perspectives (formerly Assuming Gender)
  • 2014–: Reviewer, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • 2013–: Editorial board, Theory, Culture, Politics (Rowman and Littlefield) 
  • 2016–22: Member of University Senate

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising doctoral and postdoctoral projects in the following areas:

  • Adorno
  • literary and aesthetic form
  • English-language and comparative poetics (particularly in modernist and contemporary literature)
  • conceptuality, conceptual archaeologies and networks
  • The Experimental Lyric
  • comparative literature
  • negative dialectic
  • Marx and critical Marxism
  • value and the commodity-form
  • Antisemitism
  • Philosophical Aesthetics
  • relationships between philosophical and literary modernism

Current supervision

Tom Davies

Tom Davies

Past projects

  • ‘One-Dimensional Trans: Models, Surrogates, Rapporteurs’
  • ‘Duplicitous Desire: John Dewey and the Potential of Poetry’
  • ‘Pink Light and Iron: Epistemo-Critical Writing in Walter Benjamin and Philip K. Dick’
  • ‘An Aesthetic Relational Worldview: A Study in the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead’
  • ‘The Weird History of USAmerican Fascism: A Guide (1979-2019)’
  • ‘On the Nature of Poetic Address in Blanchot, Celan and Cixous’
  • ‘The Highs and Lows of Modernism: A Cultural Deconstruction’
  • ‘Roland Barthes and English-language avant-garde poetry, 1970-1987’

Contact Details

Email RobinsonJ17@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 76740
Campuses John Percival Building, Room 1.22, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU