Professor Michael Gardiner
Professor
Tel: ext. 73090
Email: m.gardiner@warwick.ac.uk
H5.17
Humanities Building, University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Michael Gardiner has been at Warwick since 2007, and has held posts in Scotland, the US, and Japan.
Research interests
C19-C20 British cultural history
C19-C20 Japanese cultural history
Cultural history of nuclear weapons
Cultural and political theory
Teaching and supervision
Current modules as on right. Recent and current PhD supervision includes work on Capitalist Realism, the mid-C20 British grammar school, neo-Victorian manga, the secret in contemporary fiction.
Selected publications
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
in-process papers on Tanizaki Jun'ichirÅ and transparency, and on nuclear weapons and human extinction
Chapter on the 1945-65 era in The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature, forthcoming
'Liberalism's Opiate Subjectivity; Dependency, Edinburgh, and Enlightenment', New Formations 103, 2021
editor, Orwell and England, Macmillan, 2020
'The Anglosphere as a Principle of Progress', in eds. Wellings and Mycock, The Anglosphere: Continuity, Dissonance and Location, OUP, 2019
'Nuclear Deficit' in Humanities special number on C21 Scottish literature and environmental issues, 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
(co-author) 'Lithic Agency, Scottish Modernism, and the Politics of Nuclear War', Textual Practice, 2018
'Brexit and the Aesthetics of Anachronism', ed. Robert Eaglestone, Brexit and Literature, Routledge 2018
'Eco-catastrophe, arithmetic patriotism, and the Thatcherite promise of nature', New Formations 93, 2018
Other books:
Time and Action in the Scottish Independence Referendum, Palgrave, 2015
(co-author) The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure, Palgrave 2014
The Constitution of English Literature, Bloomsbury 2013
The Return of England in English Literature, Palgrave 2012
At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover, Birlinn 2008; Japanese edition Iwanami 2012
Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960, EUP 2006
Escalator, Polygon 2006
Modern Scottish Culture, EUP 2005
The Cultural Roots of British Devolution, EUP 2004
co-editor and contributor, Literature of an Independent England, Palgrave 2013
co-editor and intro, Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature, EUP 2011
co-editor and contributor, The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark, EUP 2010
and other book chapters and journal articles on Scot Lit, political and cultural history, Anglo-Japanese issues, short stories
Office Hours 2020-21:
Tues 1600-1700
Weds 1000-1100
Week Four on Teams: email me and I'll call back when I'm free
Teaching
Modules taught (2022-23 unconfirmed):
EN2K7/ EN3K7 Twentieth Century Avant-Gardes
PH107 Problems in Philosophy and Literature
EN3E0 Dissertation
and
EN2C7/ EN3C7 Devolutionary British Fiction
EN2G5/ EN3G5 Disasters and the British Contemporary
EN9C1 Critical Theory Today