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Timothy Bewes

Associate Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 404
Phone: (401) 863-3733

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 1760C - S01: Body and Event in Contemporary Fiction -- CRN 15462
 ENGL 2900E - S01: Deleuze: Literature and Aesthetics -- CRN 15487

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Degrees
D.Phil. University of Sussex 1996
M.A. University of Sussex 1993
B.A. University of North London 1992

Research Interests
Contemporary British/American fiction, aesthetic theory, poststructuralism, Marxist literary theory, postmodernism and postcolonialism, the ethics and politics of literary form.

Professional Accomplishments
Bewes held teaching and research positions at Sussex University, North London University, Liverpool John Moores University, Brandeis, and Brown, and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Pembroke Center in 2003-04. He has authored two books, Cynicism and Postmodernity (Verso 1997) and Reification, or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso 2002) and coedited a collection Cultural Capitalism (Lawrence and Wishart 2001) and a special issue of New Formations titled After Fanon (2002). His articles have appeared in such journals as New Left Review, New Literary History, Parallax, Genre, Cultural Critique, and Differences. He has served on the editorial board of the journal New Formations since 1998.