Prof Joe Brooker
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Overview
Overview
Qualifications
- BA English, University of East Anglia, 1994
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Research
Research
Research overview
I work on modern and contemporary literature and culture, concentrating primarily on Britain, Ireland and the United States. I have written in particular on the work of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien, and on British and American writing since the 1980s.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I am currently supervising students in the following areas:
- Samuel Beckett and Radio Drama
- Flann O'Brien and European Modernism
- French Theory in British Culture, 1970-1990
Camp Modernism - Steampunk and London
Teaching
At BA, MA and PhD level I teach literature in English from modernism to the present day. I was director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature for two spells between 2008 and 2016. From 2012 to 2013 I was director of BA English. I have also served as deputy director of postgraduate research.
From 2002-2005 I was the external examiner of the Foundation Certificate in Literature at Goldsmiths College. From 2007 to 2010 I served as external examiner for the BA English degree at the University of Sussex. From 2015 to 2017 I was External Examiner for the MA in Modernism & Contemporary Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2017 I have commenced work as external examiner for the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge.
Teaching modules
- Reading the Contemporary (AREN095S7)
- Reading and Writing the Contemporary (AREN223S7)
- Modernism and its Others (AREN253S6)
- Becoming Modern (ENHU049S7)
- Contemporary US Fiction (ENHU053S7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Brooker, Joseph (2020) Not winnin’ anymore: Boys from The Blackstuff and the literature of recession. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies pp. 40-53. ISSN 2071-1107.
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) “Everywhere I look, you could frame it”: David Mitchell’s Mission to Describe. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 10, pp. 40-46. ISSN 2071-1107.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Waiting for Beckett. Crossings 6, pp. 2-17. ISSN 2040-4344.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) ‘Weather Reports: essays on the work of Steven Connor’, edited by Joseph Brooker. Critical Quarterly 56 (2), pp. E1-E4. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) An oblique blaze in things. Critical Quarterly 56 (2), pp. 26-40. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Brooker, Joseph (2012) Introduction: listen to "Money" singing. Textual Practice 26 (1), pp. 1-10. ISSN 0950-236X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2012) Sado-monetarism: Thatcherite subjects in Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis. Textual Practice 26 (1), pp. 135-154. ISSN 0950-236X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2011) "That Carrousel Inside and Outside My Head": Flann O’Brien and pale fire. Review of Contemporary Fiction 31 (3), pp. 120-133. ISSN 0276-0045.
- Brooker, Joseph (2009) License is given: money and the menace of comedy. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (Special issue on Contemporary Satire) 3 (2), pp. 73-90. ISSN 1754-0984.
- Brooker, Joseph (2006) Forbidden to dream again: Orwell and nostalgia. English 55 (213), pp. 281-297. ISSN 0013-8215.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Orgreave revisited: David Peace’s GB84 and the return to the 1980s. Radical Philosophy (133), pp. 39-51. ISSN 0300-211X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Neo lines: Alan Hollinghurst and the apogee of the eighties. The Literary Criterion 40 (3&4), pp. 104-116. ISSN 0024-452X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Satire bust: the wagers of money. Law and Literature 17 (3), pp. 321-344. ISSN 1535-685X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) What we talk about when we talk about death. Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 847-867. ISSN 0270-5192.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Estopped by Grand Playsaunce: Flann O'Brien's Post-colonial Lore. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 15-37. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction - On writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Unknown quantity: Joyce's words. In other words: a journal for literary translators 24,
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) A balloon filled with verbal gas: blather and the Irish ready-made school. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English, 1914-1945 2 (2), pp. 74-98. ISSN 1542-8109.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Children of destiny: Brian O’Nolan and the Irish ready-made school. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English, 1914-1945 2 (1), pp. 74-98. ISSN 1542-8109.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Commercial alternative. New Formations 50, pp. 106-122. ISSN 0950-2378.
- Brooker, Joseph and Luckhurst, Roger (2003) Introduction: Remembering the 1990s. New Formations 50, ISSN 0950-2378.
- Brooker, Joseph (2001) To live outside the law: Frank O'Hara. Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23 (3), pp. 263-270. ISSN 0144-932X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2001) What tedium: boredom in "Malone dies". Journal of Beckett Studies 10 (1-2), pp. 29-39.
Book
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Jonathan Lethem and the galaxy of writing. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350003767.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Literature of the 1980s: after the watershed. The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain. 9, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748633944.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Flann O'Brien. Writers and their works. Tavistock, Devon: Northcote House. ISBN 0 7463 1081 1.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph, eds. (2004) Law and literature. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Joyce's critics: transitions in reading and culture. Madison, Wis, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0 299 19604 6.
Book Review
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Flann O'Brien, The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien.
Book Section
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) Lethem, Jonathan. In: Burn, S.J. and O'Donnell, P. and Larkin, L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Raymond’s Fen. In: Harle, Matthew and Machin, James (eds.) Of Mud & Flame - A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook. Strange Attractor. ISBN 9781907222689.
- Brooker, Joseph (2018) Jonathan Lethem. In: Eaglestone, D. and O'Gorman, R. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. Routledge Literature Companions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415716048.
- Brooker, Joseph (2018) Jonathan Coe's stories of sadness. In: Tew, P. (ed.) Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 35-50. ISBN 9781350027688. (In Press)
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) What James Joyce did in the war. In: Alam, F. and Ahmed, T. and Alam, Z. (eds.) The Great War and Our Mindscapes: Centenary Essays. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Writers.ink. pp. 82-104.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Around 2000: memoir as literature. In: Smyth, A. (ed.) A History of English Autobiography. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 374-387. ISBN 9781107078413.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Involutions of the word: Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Lethem. In: D'Arcy, M. and Nilges, M. (eds.) The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis. pp. 105-120. ISBN 9781138917033.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Reanimating historical fiction. In: James, D. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160-176. ISBN 9781107562714.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Fiction in a fictionalized society. In: Leggett, B. and Venezia, A. (eds.) Twenty-First Century Fiction. London, UK: Gylphi. pp. 1-9. ISBN 9781780240213.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Reception history. In: Latham, S. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 19-32. ISBN 9781107073906.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Ploughmen without land: Flann O'Brien and Patrick Kavanagh. In: Murphet, I. and McDonald, R. and Morrell, S. (eds.) Flann O’Brien and Modernism. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781623568757.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Thatcherism and literature. In: Tew, P. and Horton, E. and Wilson, L. (eds.) The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-1980s-a-decade-of-contemporary-british-fiction-9781441126498/#sthash.n0rBgyDU.dpuf. The Decades Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781441126498.
- Brooker, Joseph (2013) The art of offence: British literary censorship since 1971 (1971 - present day). In: Bradshaw, D. and Potter, R. (eds.) Prudes on the Prowl: Literature, Obscenity and Censorship in England, 1850 to the Present Day. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 179-207. ISBN 9780199697564.
- Brooker, Joseph (2011) Myles’ tones. In: Baines, J. (ed.) 'Is it about a bicycle?' Flann O'Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press. pp. 17-31. ISBN 9781846822407.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien. In: Wright, J.M. (ed.) A Companion to Irish Literature. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. New York, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 176-192. ISBN 9781405188098.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Has the world changed or have I changed? The Smiths and the challenge of Thatcherism. In: Campbell, S. and Coulter, C. (eds.) Why Pamper Life's Complexities? Essays on the Smiths. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719078408.
- Brooker, Joseph (2009) Post-war Joyce. In: McCourt, J. (ed.) James Joyce in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52-64. ISBN 9780521886628.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) Mind that crowd: Flann O'Brien's authors. In: Hadjiafxendi, K. and Mackay, P. (eds.) Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 91-110. ISBN 9781403949011.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) "Remember Everything": things past in Station Island. In: Hall, J.D. and Bland Crowder, A. (eds.) Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2007. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 155-171. ISBN 9780230003422.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) Remember everything: things past in station island. In: Bland Crowder, A. and Hall, J.D. (eds.) Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 155-171. ISBN 9780230206267.
- Brooker, Joseph (2006) The middle years of Martin Amis. In: Mengham, Rod and Tew, Philip (eds.) British Fiction Today. London, UK; New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.. pp. 3-14. ISBN 826487319.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) The fidelity of theory: James Joyce and the rhetoric of belatedness. In: Nash, J. (ed.) Joyce's Audiences. European Joyce Studies. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. pp. 201-221. ISBN 9789042011137.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Shades of the eighties: The Colour of Memory. In: Phillips, L. (ed.) The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London. Costerus. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi BV. pp. 139-152. ISBN 90-420-1663-9.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) The poetics of truth and reconciliation. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 38-60. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Hanafin, Patrick (2004) Living on in law and literature. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Revitalising law and literature. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Larrygogan in space: Roddy Doyle’s global village. In: Laplace, P. and Tabuteau, E. (eds.) Cities on the Margin - On the Margin of Cities. Littérature et histoire des pays de langues européennes. Besancon, France: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. pp. 201-215. ISBN 9782848670188.
Editorial
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction: on writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. Wiley. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Brooker, Joseph and Luckhurst, Roger (2003) Remembering the 1990s. New Formations 50, Lawrence and Wishart. ISSN 0950-2378.
Other
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on America after the Fall at the Royal Academy of Arts. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on ‘Carol’, by Chuck Berry & Keith Richards. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on Eduardo Paolozzi at the Whitechapel Gallery. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on SS-GB. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on St Joan at the Donmar Warehouse. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on La La Land. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: Child be strange. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: He doesn’t talk politics anymore. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: James Joyce on TV. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Eimear McBride in conversation with Jacqueline Rose. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before it Falls. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Jonathan Lethem, Amnesia Moon and Donald Trump. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on maps and the 20th Century: drawing the line at the British Library. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Lloyd Cole & The Leopards. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) William Eggleston: portraits. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Shakespeare in Ten Acts. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Ghostbusters (2016). Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Stuart David, In the All-Night Café: A memoir of Belle and Sebastian’s formative year. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.