Dr Jason Baskin

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My research and teaching interests are in modern and contemporary literature (including fiction and poetry, especially from 1945 to the present); American literature; African American, multiethnic, and contemporary global literature; phenomenology and philosophies of embodiment; Marxism and critical theory; cultural geography and critical urban studies.

Originally from Southern California, I joined the University of Exeter in Autumn 2017. Before that, I was Assistant Professor of English at University of Wyoming and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. I received my PhD from Princeton University and BA from Harvard College. I also worked for three years in the Editorial Department (trade) of W.W. Norton & Company publishers.

I very much welcome post-graduate students interested in any of the areas listed in my profile. I am especially interested in candidates looking to research:

• Contemporary literature and visual culture
• Modernism and modernist studies
• The relationship between literature and the city or built environment (especially in, but not limited to, the 20^th and 21^st centuries)
• Literature and the body/embodiment (including perception and affect)
• 20^th and 21^st century American and African American literature
• Contemporary world literature and global literary studies
• Marxism, including Marxist aesthetics, and cultural theory