Dr Harry Warwick

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

English and Comparative Literary Studies

Email: harry dot warwick at warwick dot ac dot uk

Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

About

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to starting at Warwick, I completed a BA, MA, and PhD in English at the University of Southampton, and taught at Southampton and the universities of East Anglia and Winchester.

Research interests

My research examines post-1960 science fictions, utopias, and dystopias in their social, economic, and political contexts. My Leverhulme ECF project, ‘Pipework: Energy, Environment, and Dystopia in Post-1960 American and British Culture’, explores the representation of energy infrastructures in science-fiction literature, cinema, and television. Based on my doctoral research, my previous project read Hollywood’s science-fiction films released between 1979 and 2017 (between Ridley Scott’s Alien and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049) as so many responses to the ‘new enclosures’ – new privatisations and dispossessions – sweeping across the United States in that period.

Selected publications

Monograph

Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science-Fiction Film, 1979-2017: The Aesthetics of Enclosure (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023)

Journal articles

‘Cathedral of Power: Battersea Power Station in Dystopian Visual CultureLink opens in a new window’, Critical Quarterly, 64.4 (2022), 117-37
‘Double Take: "Cognitive Estrangement" Reconsidered from the Perspective of Marx's Value TheoryLink opens in a new window’, Extrapolation, 63.3 (2022), 273-96
‘Commodity Horror: Videodrome and the Industrialisation of Canadian CultureLink opens in a new window’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, 19.4 (2021), 420-38
‘Alien and the New EnclosuresLink opens in a new window’, Open Library of Humanities, 4.2 (2018), 1-23
‘Enclosure is Back!: A Review of Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter LinebaughLink opens in a new window’, Historical Materialism, 26.4 (2018), 253-63

Qualifications

BA, MA, PhD (Southampton)