Liam Connell

Caponeu Team Member • Scholar

Liam Connell, PhD, works in the area of the economic humanities with a particular focus on the discourses of globalization and labour within contemporary fiction. His research has explored how conflicting ideas of state and of liberalized trade are represented in the fictions of migration, and how contemporary fiction about work, especially office work, explore changing patterns of work in the contemporary global economy.

He is part of the University of Brighton team exploring the idea of the political in support of CAPONEU. He is preparing a monograph on the contemporary political novel, examining the function of speech acts as a mode of political action.

 

Affiliation

University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT

Book author

  • Liam Connell, Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel (London: Palgrave, 2017)

Books/special issues of journals edited

  • Liam Connell, and Nicky Marsh, eds., Literature and Globalization: A Reader (London: Routledge, 2011)

Contact

University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT


Email: l.j.connell@brighton.ac.uk

External links

https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/liam-connell