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Biography
Following a very brief career in English local government, Kiron undertook a PhD on modernist and contemporary literature at the University of Sussex. Since then, he has worked at the Universities of East Anglia, Sussex, Copenhagen, Birmingham, and Essex. Kiron joined St Andrews in 2022.
Teaching activity
2023/24
EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance
EN3220 Queer It! Introducing Queer Literature and Theory
EN4398 + ID4002 Short Dissertation & School Placement
EN4399 Dissertation in English
EN4437 US Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond
MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Culture
MLitt in Women, Writing, and Gender (co-director)
Research overview
Kiron researches modern and contemporary literatures, and has a background in hemispheric American Studies. He is especially interested in encyclopaedism, totality, epistemic injustice, and literary aesthetics; his work draws particularly, but not exclusively, on 20th and 21st Century British, Irish, North American, Caribbean, and Latinx fiction.
Kiron's forthcoming monograph, Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury), focuses on the relationship between literature and totality, particularly as it pertains to questions of epistemic violence and injustice, and looks particularly at the work of Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, Karen Tei Yamashita, Olga Tokarczuk, Thomas King, and Lucy Ellmann. Kiron's previous publications include two special issues on James Joyce, Encyclopedia Joyce (James Joyce Quarterly 55.1-2; with James Blackwell Phelan) and James Joyce's Ulysses at 100 (Textual Practice 26.2; with E. Paige Miller), and one edited collection, Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury; with Katherine Da Cunha Lewin).
Kiron's future research projects look to global modernist studies and plantation studies.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction
Ward, K., 9 Jan 2025, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 240 p. (New horizons in contemporary writing)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Joycean DeLillo
Ward, K., 1 Sept 2023, The Edinburgh companion to Don DeLillo and the arts. Gander, C. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 222-234 13 p. (Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Indian-hating: ontological anthropology, indigenous knowledges, and Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man
Ward, K., 2022, (Accepted/In press) The Oxford handbook to Herman Melville. Greiman, J. & Jonik, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning
Miller, E. P. & Ward, K., 2 Feb 2022, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 182-185 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hypercanonical Joyce: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, creative disaffiliation, and the global afterlives of Ulysses
Ward, K., 16 Dec 2021, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 326-347 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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