Iris Pearson
Thesis title: Form and Readerly Affect in Late Twentieth-Century Novels
Supervisor: Kate McLoughlin
Research interests: twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature; form and formalism; literary experiment; novel theory; affect; theories of reading.
Doctoral research: My research looks at formal devices deployed by late twentieth-century novelists to manage readerly affect. I am interested in the ways in which novelists mobilise experimental forms to repel readers, cultivating affects such as indifference, weariness or hesitance. My project contains chapters on Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Anthony Burgess and Angela Carter.
Publications:
Iris Pearson, ‘Moving Through Paris: The Discontinuous Forms of Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela and Luisa Futoransky’s De Pe a Pa‘, Latin American Literary Review, 48 (97) (2021).
Iris Pearson, ‘The Orange Tree and Postcritique in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos‘, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (forthcoming 2023).
