Dr Joseph Anderton

Joseph Anderton

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature

Email:
joseph.anderton@bcu.ac.uk

Joseph Anderton writes and teaches on modern and contemporary literature, particularly in relation to dehumanisation; animals and the environment; homelessness; and literary ethics.

He is author of Beckett’s Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2016), which considers conceptions of the ‘creature’ and ‘creaturely life’ as they appear in Samuel Beckett’s literature and drama. Joseph is currently writing a new monograph, Writing Homelessness in Contemporary British Literature.

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