Iris Pearson has just completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Kate McLoughlin.

Her doctoral research looked at the ways in which late twentieth-century novelists such as Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Anthony Burgess and Angela Carter deploy experimental formal devices to manufacture readerly affect. She also writes more broadly about twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, magical realism, experimental / creative reading practices, and Spanish American literature. She has recently received a Short-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Tokyo in 2025; her project there will be entitled ‘Mieko Kanai and Mild Feeling’.

Iris co-convenes a series of Workshops in Experimental Criticism, and works as Research Assistant to Professor Joe Moshenska for his project ‘Creating Criticism’. She is currently a Lecturer in English at University College, and will be a Stipendiary Lecturer at Lincoln College from January.

Contact: iris@irispearson.com