Overview

I grew up in Pontypridd in South Wales and was educated at Ysgol Gynradd Evan James and Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen. I went on to do my BA, my MPhil and my PhD at Cambridge University, and got my first job as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. Since then, I've worked as a Leverhulme research fellow and teaching fellow at University College London, and a teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews. In 2017, I came to Exeter to start a lectureship in twentieth-century literature.

My work focuses on the relationship between modernist literature and its historical contexts and legacies. My first book, Granular Modernism, was published in 2014 by Oxford University Press, and I'm hoping to finish my second book, Shallow Modernism, by the end of the year. I've also published articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including kimonos, shy irony, labour-saving devices, LA traffic, Nabokovian colour photography, doors, slot machines, squeamishness, pseudopsychology, and pulling out of parties at the last minute ('chucking').   

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Publications

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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2007 |

2024

• Carver B. (2024) Ford’s Creepy Candor, #MeToo and Modernism, Liverpool University Press, 65-76, DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781638040361.003.0005.

2023

• Carver B. (2023) Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts, Textual Practice, volume ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, pages 1-21, DOI:10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281677.
• Carver B. (2023) Decolonising the Conrad Canon. By Alice M. Kelly. Conrad’s Decentered Fiction. By Johan Adam Warodell, English Journal of the English Association, volume 71, no. 275, pages 361-363, DOI:10.1093/english/efad001.
• Carver B. (2023) Cameras, Technology, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/9781108560740.017.

2022

• Carver B. (2022) Review of Andrew Thacker, Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London, Modernist Cultures, volume 17, no. 3-4, pages 364-367, DOI:10.3366/mod.2022.0379.

2021

• Carver B. (2021) The Economics of Generosity in Ford, Conrad, and Keynes, British Literature in Transition: 1900-1920.

2020

• Allen E, Carver B, Purdon J. (2020) Introduction: Cooking with Trotter, Critical Quarterly, volume 61, no. 4, pages 3-7, DOI:10.1111/criq.12505.
• Carver B. (2020) Death by capitalism in Eliot’s The Waste Land, Textual Practice, volume 36, no. 5, pages 831-849, DOI:10.1080/0950236x.2020.1839948. [PDF]
• Carver B. (2020) Dickensian stuffing, Critical Quarterly, volume 61, no. 4, pages 50-61, DOI:10.1111/criq.12502. [PDF]

2019

• Carver B. (2019) Nabokov’s American gut, Textual Practice, volume 34, no. 11, pages 1885-1904, DOI:10.1080/0950236x.2019.1652206. [PDF]

2018

• Carver B. (2018) Cambridge, Vladimir Nabokov in Context, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 80-86, DOI:10.1017/9781316258132.010.

2017

• Carver B. (2017) David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus and Rebecca Roach (eds). Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, The Review of English Studies, volume 68, no. 285, pages 620-623, DOI:10.1093/res/hgw147.
• Carver B, Purdon J. (2017) Introduction: Traffic in modernity, Critical Quarterly, volume 58, no. 4, pages 3-9, DOI:10.1111/criq.12301.
• Carver B. (2017) Chucking in Evelyn Waugh, Textual Practice, volume 32, no. 5, pages 895-912, DOI:10.1080/0950236x.2016.1275760. [PDF]
• Carver B. (2017) Untraffic in Los Angeles, Critical Quarterly, volume 58, no. 4, pages 133-148, DOI:10.1111/criq.12307. [PDF]

2016

• Carver B. (2016) Rebecca Walsh, The Geopoetics of Modernism, Transatlantica, no. 1, DOI:10.4000/transatlantica.8196.
• Carver BM. (2016) Absolutist Slot Machines, Writing, Medium, Machine Modern Technographies.
• Purdon J, Carver B. (2016) Traffic in Modernity, Critical Quarterly.

2015

• Carver B. (2015) What Women Want: The Modernist Kimono, Modernism/modernity, volume 22, no. 2, pages 303-314, DOI:10.1353/mod.2015.0044. [PDF]

2014

• Carver B. (2014) Reviews, Critical Quarterly, volume 56, no. 4, pages 129-131, DOI:10.1111/criq.12146.
• Dobbin B. (2014) ‘An elf wearing a hat that makes him invisible’: modernism's shy irony, Textual Practice, volume 28, no. 3, pages 453-471, DOI:10.1080/0950236x.2013.858071. [PDF]
• Dobbin B. (2014) Nabokov and Colour Photography, Essays in Criticism, volume 64, no. 4, pages 415-435, DOI:10.1093/escrit/cgu021. [PDF]
• Carver B. (2014) Granular Modernism, Oxford University Press, USA.

2007

• CARVER B. (2007) London as a waste of space in Eliot's The Waste Land, Critical Quarterly, volume 49, no. 4, pages 56-70, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2007.00800.x.

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