Dr Kiron Ward

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2673

Email

kw238@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Teaching

2023/24

EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance

EN3220 Queer It! Introducing Queer Literature and Theory

EN4398 + ID4002 Short Dissertation & School Placement

EN4399 Dissertation in English

EN4437 US Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond

MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Culture

MLitt in Women, Writing, and Gender (co-director)

Research areas

Kiron researches modern and contemporary literatures, and has a background in hemispheric American Studies. He is especially interested in encyclopaedism, totality, epistemic injustice, and literary aesthetics; his work draws particularly, but not exclusively, on 20^th and 21^st Century British, Irish, North American, Caribbean, and Latinx fiction.

Kiron's forthcoming  monograph, Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury), focuses on the relationship between literature and totality, particularly as it pertains to questions of epistemic violence and injustice, and looks particularly at the work of Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, Karen Tei Yamashita, Olga Tokarczuk, Thomas King, and Lucy Ellmann. Kiron's previous publications include two special issues on James Joyce, Encyclopedia Joyce (James Joyce Quarterly 55.1-2; with James Blackwell Phelan) and James Joyce's Ulysses at 100 (Textual Practice 26.2; with E. Paige Miller), and one edited collection, Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury; with Katherine Da Cunha Lewin).

Kiron's future research projects look to global modernist studies and plantation studies.

Selected publications

• Encyclopaedism and totality in contemporary fiction

  Ward, K., 9 Jan 2025, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 256 p. (New horizons in contemporary writing)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Joycean DeLillo

  Ward, K., 1 Sept 2023, The Edinburgh companion to Don DeLillo and the arts. Gander, C. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 222-234 13 p. (Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Indian-hating: ontological anthropology, indigenous knowledges, and Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man

  Ward, K., 2022, (Accepted/In press) The Oxford handbook to Herman Melville. Greiman, J. & Jonik, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning

  Miller, E. P. & Ward, K., 2 Feb 2022, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 182-185 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Hypercanonical Joyce: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, creative disaffiliation, and the global afterlives of Ulysses

  Ward, K., 16 Dec 2021, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 326-347 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Kanidice Chuh, The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “after Man”

  Ward, K., 1 May 2021, In: Journal of American Studies. 55, 2, p. 517-518 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Learning from Black Lives Matter

  Martyn Bone & Ward, K., 11 Jun 2020, Universitetsavisen.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Otherwise, Revolution! Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Rebecca Tillett

  Ward, K., 2020, In: Modern Language Review. 115, 3, p. 717-718

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Don DeLillo: contemporary critical perspectives

  Da Cunha Lewin, K. (ed.) & Ward, K. (ed.), 4 Oct 2018, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 198 p. (Contemporary critical perspectives series)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Introduction - A trick of the light: Don DeLillo in the twenty-first century

  Katherine Da Cunha Lewin, 4 Oct 2018, Don DeLillo : contemporary critical perspectives. Da Cunha Lewin, K. & Ward, K. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1-16 16 p. (Contemporary critical perspectives series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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