Leo Kadokura

Thesis title: Rewriting Englishness Across the Long Twentieth Century

Supervisor: Peter D. McDonald

Research Interests: Modern Literature, World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, the ethics and epistemology of identity

Leo Kadokura is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. His thesis examines how the always contested idea of Englishness has shifted as writers have developed new, or different, modes of writing across the long twentieth century. The vital but often neglected two-way interaction between intellectual history and literary form is central to this project. He completed his MSt in World Literatures in English and BA in English Language and Literature at Oxford.

He will be chairing a panel at the 55th NeMLA Convention in March 2024 examining philosophical difficulty and literary surplus. The Call for Papers is available here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20672

Conference Panel Chair:

- 'Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value', 55th NeMLA Convention, MLA, Boston, USA (March 2024)

Conference Papers:

- 'What One is Worth: Leftovers of Identity and Value in V.S. Naipaul's Late Fiction', 55th NeMLA Convention, MLA, Boston, USA (March 2024)

- 'Distant Chimeras: The After-Effects of John Galsworthy and the Edwardian Novel', Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination, University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy (September 2023)

- 'Writing Doubtfully: Joseph Conrad's Nostromo', OEGC, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (June 2023)