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Stephen J. Burn joined the School of Critical Studies in 2013, after spending a decade at Northern Michigan University as Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature. He has published widely on contemporary fiction, writing both academic books and articles, and regularly reviews fiction for the New York Book Review and Literary Supplement. Burn is currently preparing an edition of David Foster Wallace’s letters and writing a monograph on the American novel in the age of neuroscience. As a guest editor, he is involved in an upcoming special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that is dedicated to Neuroscience and Modern Fiction. Along with Bryan Cheyette and Peter Boxall, he edits Bloomsbury’s series, New Horizons in Contemporary Fiction. His research focuses on a generation of American writers who came of age during the dispute over postmodernism's imperial reign. He has authored the books 'David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide' and 'Jonathan Franzen and the End of Postmodernism', edited 'Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers', and 'Conversations with David Foster Wallace', among others. His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and he has written an essay that opened the New York Book Review’s 2011 feature “Why Criticism Matters.” Burn has given keynote lectures at conferences across America, Belgium, and England.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, SC, GB
Joined the School of Critical Studies and focused on contemporary American literature.