About

Michael Gardiner has been at Warwick since 2007

Research interests

Twentieth-century cultural history
Cultural Theory
Modern Scottish Literature
Place, nationality, and Britishness
Twentieth-century Japanese cultural history
Theories of nuclear deterrence and unilateralism
Environmental Philosophy

Teaching and supervision

Current modules as on right. Recent and current PhD supervision includes work on: datings of capitalist realism; ideas of England in contemporary writing; London and hauntology; ideological roles of the mid-C20 British grammar school; neo-Victorian manga; comparative philosophy and the Kyoto School; the secret in contemporary fiction

Selected recent publications

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

'The Ecology of Place in Neil Gunn's Highland River and Nishida Kitarō's basho', Scottish Literary Review, forthcoming

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

Interviewed in Waiguo Wenxie 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 107-108, 2023

'Extinction and Independence in Scottish Wilderness Writing', Études Anglaises, 2023

'Liberalism's Opiate Subjectivity: Dependency, Edinburgh, and Enlightenment', New Formations 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 8-3, 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. Eaglestone, Brexit and Literature, Routledge, 2018

'Eco-catastrophe, arithmetic patriotism, and the Thatcherite promise of nature', New Formations 93, 2018