Dr Sam Waterman is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London where he teaches modern and contemporary literature, critical theory, and creative writing. Before joining NU London, Sam worked at the University of Chichester, and prior to this he received his BA in English Language and Literature and MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Sam is currently completing a monograph entitled After Men: Modernist Adventure and the Regendering of Work. Via the cultural form of ‘woman-centred adventure’, the book traces the emergence of ideas about post-industrial and feminised work in the novels of E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen and Jean Rhys, as well as in contemporary writers such as Zadie Smith, Shola von Reinhold, Sally Rooney and Raven Leilani. Sam is also working on a project entitled The Art of Protest, which seeks to enable ‘critical citizenship’ in East London through engagement with the history of protest and civic action in the UK. Sam is a member of the British Association of Modernist Studies and serves on the committee of the London Modernism Seminar.
