Dr Sebastian Groes

Job Title: Lecturer Qualifications: MA (VU, Amsterdam), MA (UEA), PhD (UEA) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3291 Email Address: Sebastian.Groes@roehampton.ac.uk

Room: Fincham 303
Office hours (Spring 2010): Wednesdays 1-2; Fridays 11-12

Research Interests

Sebastian's 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.

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 2010. Palgrave will also publish a co-edited volume: Kazuo Ishiguro: Critical Visions of the Novels (2010). Recently he has written journal articles and essays on authors including 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.

Postgraduate supervision

I am currently supervising a PhD that looks at Deleuze and Guattari's idea of 'Minor Literature' in the work of writers including J. M. Coetzee; Nicola Barker; Ian McEwan; Paul Auster; and Kazuo Ishiguro. I'd be very happy to consider proposals in the following areas:

• Modernist and post-war fiction and Place/Space

• Fiction, Surveillance and Carceral Theory

• Post-war Fiction and Ethics

• Subversive Literatures and Radical Aesthetics

• Writing and Memory