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• Modernism
• Post-WWII Literature
• Contemporary Literature
• Literary Animal Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Literature and Ethics

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• PhD English, University of Nottingham
• MA English Literature, University of Nottingham
• BA(Hons) English with Creative Writing, University of Hull

Joseph teaches on twentieth and twenty-first century literature across all undergraduate levels. He also supervises dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Joseph is currently writing a new monograph, Writing Homelessness in Contemporary British Literature. This research focuses fictional and non-fictional accounts of homelessness from 1948 to the present to uncover the shared and differing depictions of home, family, animal companionship, citizenship, poverty, addiction, mental health, and homeless services. It aims to better understand the patterns of literary representation that influence societal perceptions of and responses to homelessness.

Joseph welcomes doctoral research proposals on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, particularly:

• Modernist Literature
• Post-WWII Literature
• Literary Animal Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Contemporary Novel

Monograph

• Beckett鈥檚 Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust (London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016; paperback 2017)

Journal Articles

• 鈥楳ulticultural Literature in a Superdiverse City鈥�, Post 45 Contemporaries,聽Contemporary Literature from the聽Classroom, ed. by Rebecca Roach (2024)
• 鈥榁oices We Don鈥檛 Hear About: An Interview with Author Mahsuda Snaith鈥�, C21 Literature, Vol.10, No.2 (August 2023)
• 鈥業magining Homelessness: Ethnofiction in Marc Auge鈥檚聽No Fixed Abode聽and Mahsuda Snaith鈥檚聽How To Find Home鈥�, Alluvium, Vol.9, No.4 (September 2021)
• 鈥楾he Post-Millennial Rise of British Homelessness Literature鈥�, Alluvium, Vol.8, No.3 (November 2020)
• 鈥樷�楲iving Flesh鈥�: The Human-Nonhuman Proximity in Beckett鈥檚 Four Stories, 1946鈥�, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd鈥檋ui. Samuel Beckett and the Nonhuman, ed. by Douglas Atkinson and Amanda Dennis, Vol. 32, No.2 (Rodopi, October 2020)
• 鈥榁egetating Life and the Spirit of Modernism in Kafka and Beckett鈥�, Modernism/modernity, Vol.26, No.4 (John Hopkins University Press, November 2019)
• 鈥楧ogdom: Nonhuman Others and the Othered Self in Kafka, Beckett, and Auster鈥�, Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol.62, No.3 (Hofstra University Press, September 2016)
• 鈥樷�淐eremonious Ape!鈥�: Creaturely Poetics and Anthropomorphic Acts鈥�, Performance Research,聽鈥極n Anthropomorphism鈥�, ed. by Richard Allen and Shaun May, Vol.20, No.2 (Routledge, April 2015)

Book Chapters

• 鈥楶recarity, Precariousness, Poverty, Homelessness and the Literature and Ethics of Responsiveness鈥�, in: Handbook of Literature and Ethics, ed. by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024)
• 鈥楢nthony Luvera in conversation with Joseph Anderton鈥�, in: Construct, by Anthony Luvera (GRAIN Projects, 2024)
• 鈥楢nimal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction鈥�, in: Animals in Detective Fiction, ed. by Ruth Hawthorne and John Miller (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
• 鈥楻evolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence鈥� in: Modernism and the Anthropocene, ed. by Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre (New York: Lexington, 2021)
• 鈥樷�渢he impulse towards silence鈥�: Creaturely Expressivity in Beckett and Coetzee鈥�, in: Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture, ed. by Roman Bartosch and Dominik Ohrem (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• 鈥楥yberbeasts: Substitution and Trivialization of the Animal in Social Media, Memes and Video Games鈥�, in: Screening the Non/Human: Representations of Animal Others in the Media, ed. by Joe Leeson-Schatz and Amber George (New York: Lexington, 2016)
• 鈥樷�淗ooves!鈥�: The Equine Presence in Beckett鈥�, Beckett and Animals, ed. by Mary Bryden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Reviews

• Review: 鈥業s It Ok To Laugh about It? Holocaust Humour, Satire and Parody in Israeli Culture鈥� by Liat Steir-Livny (Elstree: Vallentine Mitchell, 2017) in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3 (London: Routledge, 2020)
• Review: 鈥楽taging Beckett in Great Britain鈥� ed. by David Tucker and Trish McTighe, (London: Bloomsbury, 2016); 鈥楽taging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland鈥� ed. by David Tucker and Trish McTighe (London: Bloomsbury, 2016); and 鈥楽amuel Beckett鈥檚 Theatre in America鈥� by Natka Bianchini (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2015) in: Journal of Beckett Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
• Review: 鈥楽amuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. New Critical Essays鈥�, ed. by Peter Fifield and David Addyman (London: Methuen Drama, 2013) in: Journal of Beckett Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
• Review: 鈥榃hy We Laugh: A New Understanding鈥� by John Charles Simon (Carmel, IN: Starbrook, 2008), in: European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2014)

Conference Papers/Talks

• 鈥楶roductive Discomfort: Teaching Literary聽Modernism聽from Troublesome to Transformative鈥�, Uses of Modernism, Ghent University, 20-22 September 2023
• 鈥楩rames of Homelessness: Response Ethics and Writing Other Lives in Alexander Masters鈥檚 Stuart: A Life Backwards鈥�, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, What Happens Now Conference, 6 and 8 September 2023
• 鈥楻ethinking Authenticity in Contemporary Homelessness Literature鈥�, Narrating Lives: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 27-28 August 2022
• Guest on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Dogs, 10 November 2021
• 鈥楶oor Thing: Homeless Animals and their Stories鈥�, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, What Happens Now Virtual Conference, 3 September 2021
• 鈥楥rises in Times of Crisis: Homelessness and Discourses of Pathology鈥�, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, Crisis in Contemporary Literature Virtual Conference, 26 June 2020
• 鈥業magining Precarity: The Language and Utility of Contemporary Homelessness Fiction鈥�, Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures Conference, University of Rome, 29-31 January 2020
• 鈥楽amuel Beckett and the Human-Nonhuman Proximity, 1946-1951鈥�, The Annual Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School, University of Vienna, 1-5 July 2019
• 鈥楤eckett, Vegetating Life and Late Modernism鈥�, Mid-century Modernism Research Seminar and MA Masterclass, University of Sheffield, 1 May 2019
• 鈥樷�楲iving Flesh鈥�: The Human-Nonhuman Proximity in Beckett鈥檚 Four Nouvelles鈥�, Beckett and the Nonhuman Conference, Free University of Brussels, 7-8 February 2019
• 鈥楻egarding Homelessness: Berger鈥檚 King: A Street Story and McGregor鈥檚 Even The Dogs鈥�, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, What Happens Now Conference, Loughborough University, 10-12 July 2018
• 鈥榃ildlife and Literature鈥� Public Lecture, The Wildlife Trust for 探花直播 and the Black Country, Hilton Garden Inn, 探花直播,聽23 May 2018
• 鈥樷�楴o Ideal Vegetation鈥�: Unfinished Life in Kafka and Beckett鈥�, British Association for Modernist Studies, Modernist Life International Conference, University of 探花直播, 29 June-1 July 2017
• 鈥楽amuel Beckett鈥檚 鈥渉ighly successful failures鈥濃��, 鈥楾owards an Aesthetics of Failure鈥� Special Session, Modern Language Association Annual International Conference 2016, Austin, Texas, 8-11 January 2016
• 鈥楽omething Novel in the Nothing New: Talawa鈥檚 Waiting for Godot and Amateur Theatre in the Midlands鈥�, Staging Beckett at the Margins Conference, University of Chester, 11-12 September 2014
• 鈥楧ogdom: The Unknowable World of Canines in Kafka, Beckett and Auster鈥�, Reading Animals International Conference, University of Sheffield, 17-20 July 2014
• 鈥楤eckett鈥檚 Late Modernism and the Creature鈥� British Association for Modernist Studies, Modernism Now! International Conference, University of London, 26-28 June 2014
• 鈥樷�渟top talking and do something for a change鈥�: Beckett鈥檚 Not I and Happy Days鈥�, A Beckett Evening, The Lace Market Theatre, Nottingham, 21 May 2014