About

Sebastian is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. His interests focus on Twentieth Century and Contemporary British Literature, Culture and Theory, with particular emphases on Modernism beyond the hypercanon, on post-war and contemporary fiction (including postcolonial work), and on the representation of cities such as Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Venice, and, in particular, London.

He has worked with authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Iain Sinclair, Hanif Kureishi, Maureen Duffy, Niall Griffiths, Tom McCarthy, Tiffany Murray, Susanna Jones, Helen Walsh and Kevin Sampson. He has collaborated with artists and academics including Christian Nold, Hugo Spiers, Sam Roberts and Kamala Katbamna.

Sebastian welcomes research students who are interested in any aspect of twentieth or twenty-first century literature and/or culture, and he is particularly interested in supervising work on place/space; surveillance and carceral theory; memory and time; subversive literature and radical aesthetics; and 'the posthuman'.

Office hours (Autumn 2011):
Tuesday 1-2
Fridays 1-2

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Publications

Sebastian is a Series Editor of Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Continuum), which includes volumes on J. G. Ballard; Ian McEwan; Kazuo Ishiguro; and Julian Barnes. His monographs, The Making of London (Palgrave) and British Fiction in the Sixties (Continuum), will be published in January 2013. Palgrave has just published a co-edited volume on Kazuo Ishiguro's work: Kazuo Ishiguro: Critical Visions of the Novels (July, 2011).

Recently he has written journal articles and essays on authors including Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald; Iain Sinclair; Nell Dunn; J. G. Ballard; B. S. Johnson; Stella Gibbons; and Monica Ali. Sebastian has also reviewed fiction for The Guardian, and he is an editor of the Journal American, British and Canadian Studies, which has recently published a Special Edition on the work of Julian Barnes.

He is a contributing editor of and reviewer for the oldest literary magazine in the Lowlands, DWB.

Sebastian is also a regular contributor to The Literary Encyclopedia.