Qualifications

DPhil, University of Sussex.

MA, Twentieth Century Literature, University of Sussex.

MA, English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

Research Interests

American literature, contemporary literature and culture, globalization, consumer society.

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective research students in the following fields: contemporary literature and culture, 20th century American literature, consumer society, globalization and culture/literature.

 

My teaching usually involves me  working on modules focussed on  American Literature,  contemporary British Literature and literary theory.   

• Annesley J. Uncomfortably Numb: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Cool Lifestyles. Comparative American Studies An International Journal 2021, epub ahead of print.
• Keeble A, Annesley J. Globalism, Multiculturalism and Violence in Zia Hader Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017). Parallax 2021, 27(1), 79-97.
• Annesley J. Being Spike Jonze: Film, music and advertising in a converging culture. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 2014, 11(1), 23-38.
• Annesley J. Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel. London: Continuum, 2006.
• James Annesley. Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel. London: Pluto, 1998.
• Annesley J. Market Corrections: Jonathan Franzen and the "Novel of Globalization". Journal of Modern Literature 2006, 29(2), 111-128.
• Annesley J. Pure Shores: Travel, Consumption, and Alex Garland's The Beach. Modern Fiction Studies 2004, 50(3), 551-569.
• Annesley J. Melville’s No Logo: Moby-Dick and the Globalisation Debate. Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture 2004, 18(1), 13-23.
• James Annesley. Decadence and Disquiet: Recent American Fiction and the Coming Fin de Siècle. Journal of American Studies, 30.3 1997, 30(3), 365-379.
• Annesley J. Thigh Bone Connected to the Hip Bone: Don DeLillo’s Underworld and the Fictions of Globalization. Amerikastudien/American Studies 2002, 47(1), 85-95.
• Annesley J. Brand Ellis: Celebrity Authorship in Lunar Park. In: Mandel, N, ed. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 2010, pp.143-157.
• Annesley J. Contextualising Cooper. In: Lev, L, ed. Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006, pp.68-79.
• James Annesley. Commodification, Violence and the Body: A Reading of Some Recent American Fictions. In: Timothy Armstrong, ed. American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, pp.191-204.
• Annesley J. Netscapes: Gibson, Globalization and the Representation of New Media. Forum for Modern Language Studies 2001, 37(2), 218-229.
• James Annesley. What’s Going On: Interdiscursivity, Popular Culture and American Blank Fiction. Over Here: A European Journal of American Culture 1996, 1(1), 1-18.
• Annesley J. David Foster Wallace. Journal of American Studies 2009, 43(1), 131-134.