Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Before beginning at Brown in 2004, Timothy Bewes held teaching and research positions at University of Sussex, the University of North London, Liverpool John Moores University, and Brandeis. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Pembroke Center at Brown in 2003-04. He is the author of Cynicism and Postmodernity (Verso 1997); Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso 2002); The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Princeton UP, 2011), and Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia UP, 2022). He has also edited several collections of essays, including The Anagonist (Duke UP, 2020), Jacques Rancière and the Novel (Duke UP, 2014), The Contemporary Novel: Imagining the Twenty-First Century (Duke UP, 2012), Georg Lukács: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence (Aesthetics, Politics, Literature) (Continuum, 2011, with Timothy Hall), Cultural Capitalism (Lawrence and Wishart 2001, with Jeremy Gilbert), as well as a special issue of New Formations titled After Fanon (2002). His articles have appeared in such journals as Amerikastudien, New Left Review, New Literary History, Radical Philosophy, Textual Practice, Contemporary Literature, Parallax, Genre, Differences, Twentieth Century Literature, New Formations and Cultural Critique. He has served on the editorial board of New Formations since 1998, and as an editor of Novel since 2005. He convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.