Dr Sadek Kessous
Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow
Contact details
- Email: sadek.kessous@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Academia
Address
- Street
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Room 2.32, 50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hours: Monday, 15.00 to 16.00
Background
Dr Sadek Kessous joined the University of Edinburgh in 2020, having previously been both a Teaching Associate and Teaching Fellow at Newcastle University since 2017. He completed his PhD at Newcastle University in 2017 and also holds degrees from the University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University.
Qualifications
PhD in American Literature (Newcastle, 2017)
MA in English Literature (Warwick, 2010)
BA (Hons) in English Studies with a minor in Film (Oxford Brookes, 2008)
Undergraduate teaching
In the academic year 19/20, I teach:
- English Literature 2
- American Innocence
- Fairy Tales
Research summary
My research concentrates on the interface of economics, culture and social organisation. My most recent research project addresses American literary culture since the neoliberal turn of the mid-1970s. In that project, I map the social imaginations of works by William Gaddis, Evan Dara, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Ferris and Charlie Kaufman. I argue that the forms of these works uniquely register the social contours of economic change in arenas that range from pension funds to protests.
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The sound of finance: Noise, music, and pension fund capitalism in William Gaddis’s JR
(21 pages)
In:
Textual Practice, vol. 34, pp. 1383-1403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2019.1580214
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A mere instrument of production: Representing domestic labour in Westworld
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6_11
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
[Review of] Alison Shonkwiler, The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, $28.00). Pp. 164. isbn 978 1 5179 0152 3.
(3 pages)
In:
Journal of American Studies, vol. 53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002187581800186x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Writing the region in an age of globalization: Chicago and Its cosmopolitan subject(s) in Joshua Ferris's "Then We Came to the End"
In:
Midwestern Miscellany, vol. 43, pp. 66-83
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Current research interests
My research concentrates on the interface of economics, culture and social organisation. My most recent research project addresses American literary culture since the neoliberal turn of the mid-1970s. In that project, I map the social imaginations of works by William Gaddis, Evan Dara, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Ferris and Charlie Kaufman. I argue that the forms of these works uniquely register the social contours of economic change in arenas that range from pension funds to protests.