BA (Keele) MA, PhD (UEA)

Course Group Leader, English and Writing
Senior Lecturer, English Literature


Room: Hel 159

Email: jeannette.baxter@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2588
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2588



Jeannette Baxter's research activity

Jeannette's research focuses on three main areas: the relationship between modern and contemporary literature (post-1900) and the visual arts, especially surrealism in its global perspectives; post-1945 British, American, and European literature with particular focus on historiography and aesthetics; contemporary literature and critical theory. She also has interests in comparative literature; literary translation; and the relationship between contemporary art and literature in East Central Europe.

Jeannette is the author of J. G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship (Ashgate 2009) and numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of modernism, post-1945 literature, and contemporary fiction. She is the editor of J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Continuum 2008); co-editor of Visions and Revisions: Essays on J. G. Ballard (Palgrave 2011); and co-editor of A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald (MUP forthcoming, 2012); she has recently completed a commissioned co-edited issue of Women: A Cultural Review on the work of Jean Rhys (Routledge; forthcoming, 2012). Jeannette is a Series Editor of Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Continuum), which includes volumes on J. G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes.

Jeannette is currently developing her research interests in the relationship between modern literature and the visual arts in Literary Surrealisms (working title), a book-length study of the aesthetic, cultural and intellectual legacies of visual and literary surrealism in twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature. She is also working on a co-edited collection of essays: Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Andrea Levy will be published by Continuum in 2013.

Jeannette's main teaching areas are twentieth-century and contemporary literature, and critical and cultural theory. She teaches undergraduate modules on modernism, contemporary fiction, modern science fiction, Holocaust writing, and literary theory. She also leads MA seminars on the historical and neo-avant-garde, post-war writing, postmodernism, Samuel Beckett, and J. G. Ballard.

She is keen to supervise research in the areas of: intersections of literature and the visual arts (post-1900); twentieth-century and contemporary literature; the post-war novel; Holocaust writing.

For more information please see Dr Jeannette Baxter's research activity page.

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