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Joe Shaughnessy is a Teaching Associate in Postcolonial Literature and a College Lecturer at Churchill College within the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in 2023, which was funded by the AHRC Leverhulme Trust. His doctoral research involved studying and researching the intersections of literature and capitalism, particularly through a materialist lens. His forthcoming monograph, titled "Shards of Literary International: Capitalism, Community, and Anglophone Literature, 1919-1950," explores the geographies of leftist literary production and the socio-political implications of literary forms during the specified period. Joe's research interests lie in the anticolonial, antifascist, and socialist literary movements, analyzing literature's responses to significant historical events, including the Spanish Civil War and the Great Depression. He is also contributing a book chapter to the "Routledge Handbook of Red World Literature," focusing on the 'world-system temporality' of internationalist Anglophone poetry from the 1930s and 1940s.
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