Birkbeck Institutional Research Online (BIROn) is a repository of research by staff, hosted by our college library. Staff are strongly encouraged to provide the metadata (citation details) for their publications, which can be searched from here. In many cases, staff have also uploaded the full text (prior to typesetting) of their research. Therefore, much of our recent research in the Contemporary field can be accessed online from anywhere in the world, either via open access or via an initial request for a copy which will be automatically processed by the library.
If you are interested in the research that staff have been doing in this field, try searching BIROn via staff names or search via our Department. Here are just a few examples:
Caroline Edwards on Sam Taylor – an example of Caroline's work on temporality on contemporary fiction.
Heike Bauer on Alison Bechdel – open access to an article about the celebrated graphic memoirist.
Mpalive Msiska on Bernadine Evaristo – request a copy of this article about transcultural identity in Black British writing.
Roger Luckhurst on architecture and utopia – you can request a copy of this interdisciplinary article via that page.
Martin Paul Eve on divergent versions of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas – open access to an article which received coverage in the national press.
Esther Leslie on Marxist criticism – open access to a wide-ranging series of reflections on intellectual history.
Grace Halden on Pretty Little Liars – request a copy of an essay on this teen fiction series.
Mark Blacklock on J.G. Ballard – request a copy of this reading prompted by the film adaptation of Ballard's work.
Joseph Brooker on David Peace – request a copy of this essay on a novel that looks back at the Miners' Strike of 1984-5.
An entire new monograph of contemporary scholarship is also available for reading via this BIROn link: Martin Paul Eve's book Literature Against Criticism (2016).
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