Dr Jeannette Baxter's research activity


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Books

J.G.Ballard's Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship (Ashgate, 2009), ISBN 978-0-7546-6267-0

Edited Books

Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Andrea Levy, with an essay and introduction (London & New York: Bloomsbury, under contract to be delivered 2014) (co-edited with David James)

A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald, with an introduction and essay (MUP: in press, forthcoming, 2013) (co-edited with Valerie Henitiuk and Ben Hutchinson)

Professor Patricia Waugh

Department of English Studies, University of Durham, UK on 'Visions and Revisions: Essays on J. G. Ballard'

This volume makes a brilliant contribution to our understanding of the sheer range, originality and uniqueness of Ballard's talents. In doing so, it also opens up a fascinating range of hitherto underexplored intellectual and cultural contexts of the period 1960 to the present. This is a collection of the highest distinction.


Visions and Revisions: Essays on J. G. Ballard, with an introduction and essay (London: Palgrave, 2011), ISBN 9780230278127 (co-edited with Rowland Wymer)

Contemporary Critical Perspectives: J. G. Ballard, with an introduction, interview and essay, (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), ISBN 9780826497260

Series Editor, Contemporary Critical Perspectives, a new series on contemporary writing (London and New York: Bloomsbury Press). Four volumes on Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, J.G. Ballard and Julian Barnes have been published. Volumes on Salman Rushdie, Sarah Waters, Ali Smith and Andrea Levy are forthcoming.

Edited Journals

Women: A Cultural Review: Jean Rhys
(London: Routledge, in press, forthcoming 2013)
(Guest co-editor with Anna Snaith and Tory Young)

Guest Editor, Pretext, Volume 9 (Norwich: Pen & Inc Press, 2004), ISBN 1-902913-20-5.

Book chapters

'Translations and Transitions: After Dark and Japanese Surrealism' in Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Haruki Murakami, ed. Sebastian Groes (London & New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2014)

'The Politics of Cliché and Euphemism in Every Light in the House Burnin' and Fruit Of the Lemon, in Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Andrea Levy, eds. Jeannette Baxter and David James (London & New York: Bloomsbury, under contract to be delivered 2014)

'Accident and Apocalypse in the Writing of Alan Burns', in Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comic Books, ed. Gavin Parkinson (Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2013)

'Into the Labyrinth: Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics in The Unconsoled', in Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels, eds. Sebastian Groes, & Barry Lewis (London: Palgrave, 2011), ISBN 9780230232372

'Uncanny Forms: Reading J. G. Ballard's "Non-Fiction" ', in Visions and Revisions: Essays on J. G. Ballard, eds. Jeannette Baxter and Rowland Wymer (London: Palgrave, 2011), ISBN 9780230278127

'Surrealist Vertigo in Schwindle Gefühle', in A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald, eds. Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk, Ben Hutchinson (MUP: in press, forthcoming, 2013)

'Surrealist Encounters in Ian McEwan's early work,' in Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Ian McEwan, ed. Sebastian Groes (London: Continuum, 2009), ISBN 0826497225

'Visions of Europe in Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes,' in Contemporary Critical Perspectives: J.G. Ballard, ed. Jeannette Baxter (London: Continuum, 2009), ISBN 978-0-8264-9726-0

'Reading Modernism,' in Continuum Handbook for Modernism, eds. Steven Barfield and Philip Tew (London: Continuum, 2009)

'Writing as a Means of Survival in the Testimonies of Primo Levi,' in The Camp: Narratives of Exclusion and Internment, eds. Colman Hogan and Marta Marín-Dòmine (Cambridge: The Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)

'Angela Carter and Postmodernism,' in Nights at the Circus, ed. Helen Stoddart, pp. 95-107 (London: Taylor and Francis, April 2007), ISBN 978-0-415-350129

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

'Encountering the Holocaust in J. G. Ballard's Post-War Short Stories', Textual Practice, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 379-398.

'Radical Surrealism: Rereading Photography and History in J.G. Ballard's Crash,' Textual Practice; Vol. 22, Issue 3, September 2008, p. 507-528

'The Surrealist Fait Divers: Uncovering Violent Histories in J.G. Ballard's Running Wild,' Papers of Surrealism, eds. Dawn Ades, David Lomas, Jennifer Mundy (April 2007), ISSN 17501954

Interviews and shorter entries

'Kingdom Come: An Interview with J.G. Ballard,' in Contemporary Critical Perspectives: J.G. Ballard, ed. Jeannette Baxter (Continuum: London, 2009)

'Reading the Signs: An Interview with J.G. Ballard' in Pretext, Volume 9 (Norwich: Pen & Inc Press, 2004), pp. 27-35. Reprinted as 'Age of Unreason' in the Guardian online, June 2004; and reprinted in Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara (eds), Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard (HarperCollins; forthcoming 2012).

Commissioned short essays on selected works by J.G. Ballard for online resource The Literary Encyclopaedia, eds. Robert Clark, Emory Eliot and Janet Todd. ISSN 1747-678X, October 2004

'Primo Levi,' commissioned biographical essay for online resource The Literary Encyclopaedia, eds. Robert Clark, Emory Eliot and Janet Todd. ISSN 1747-678X, September 2002

'J. G. Ballard,' commissioned biographical essay for online resource The Literary Encyclopaedia, eds. Robert Clark, Emory Eliot and Janet Todd. ISSN 1747-678X, November 2001

International Conferences Organised

Reading Jean Rhys, 8 July 2010 (with Dr Tory Young (Anglia Ruskin) and Dr Anna Snaith (King's College, London))

W.G. Sebald: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference, UEA, 5-7 September 2008 (with Dr Lyndsey Stonebridge, Dr Jean Boise-Beier, Dr Valerie Henitiuk and Amanda Hopkinson)

"From Shanghai to Shepperton": An International Conference on the Writings of J.G. Ballard. UEA, 5-6 May 2007

Perspectives on Ian McEwan. UEA, October 2003 (with Dr Sean Matthews and Dr Sebastian Groes)



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