Will Berrington
Will Berrington
PhD Candidate in Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Email: Will.Berrington@warwick.ac.uk
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About Me
I am a PhD candidate and Wolfson scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. My thesis is entitled Coming-of-age Post-crash: The Narration and Cultural Processing of the 'Millennial Condition' (2008-2020), in which I explore how labour market shifts in the wake of the 2008 financial crash have been narrated and processed by so-called 'millennials', through cultural forms including podcasts, political magazines and the 'millennial novel'. My work brings together cultural studies and political economy, whilst also drawing on strands of economic geography and critical social theory. In particular, it seeks to renew the theoretical insights of the Conference of Socialist Economists and the social theorist Simon Clarke in order to both rigorously ground 'millennials' and their cultural forms in global political economic shifts, as well as grasp 'millennial culture' as a key form through which 'millennials' have processed - that is, understood, adapted to, and politically responded to - the 'millennial condition'.