Dr. Harry Warwick

Biography

Harry Warwick is an Early Career Development Fellow in the Department of English at King's College London. He received his PhD in English from the University of Southampton in 2018, where he focused on Hollywood science-fiction films from the 1980s. His teaching experience spans English, Film, and Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, the University of Southampton, and the University of Winchester. In September 2020, he began a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. During this fellowship, he expanded his doctoral research and published his monograph, 'Dystopia Dispossession: Hollywood Science-Fiction Film, 1979-2017' with Liverpool University Press in March 2023. Warwick's research interests include British and American science fiction, energy environmental humanities, and materialist aesthetic theory. He is currently working on a forthcoming monograph titled 'Modernity: Energy, Infrastructure, Utopia in British American Culture' for Stanford University Press, exploring imagined future energy infrastructures by British and American creators. Additionally, he participates in teaching a variety of modules covering subjects such as the American short story, London literature, and film adaptations of early modern plays.

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