Madeleine Sinclair

Teaching Fellow

Email: madeleine.e.sinclair@warwick.ac.uk

Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm, Thursday 12-1pm, FAB 5.18 (please email for an appointment).

About

I am a Teaching Fellow (Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick. For the 2025/6 academic year, I am teaching on Global Literary Radicalisms, Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, and American Fiction since 1918. I also work as an Editorial Officer for the not-for-profit, open access publisher, the Open Library of Humanities. Previously, I was an Early Career Teaching Fellow at Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), where I taught interdisciplinary modules, such as Global Connections: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Understanding Wellbeing: Theory and Practice, and Reinventing Education.

Research Interests

My primary research and teaching interests include twenty-first century short fiction, world-literature, feminisms, the environmental humanities, and more recently the politics of publishing - particularly in relation to knowledge equity and radical open access. I recently completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick, funded by a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. My doctoral research foregrounded the short story form within contemporary debates in world-literature, where the specificity of the short form has been neglected. This work has led to several publications, including a recent article in Literature Compass on short forms and the energetics of feminist assembly, and an article on gothic peatlands in contemporary short fiction in the Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. This doctoral research also informs my forthcoming monograph, which is tentatively titled World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of the Short Form. I have also contributed to collaborative projects, such as the edited collection Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production: Territorial Bodies (with Charlotte Spear), and special issues on Landscape and Temporality (with Paul Knowles and Ana Garcia-Soriano), for the Journal of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Award in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, University of Warwick
• Associate Fellowship (AFHEA), Advance HE, University of Warwick
• PhD in English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick
• MA in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Studies, Durham University
• BA in English and Related Literature, University of York