Ian Ellison is the postdoctoral research associate on the Kafka’s Transformative Communities project at the University of Oxford and a visiting fellow of Wadham College. He was long-listed for the 2024 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism and short-listed for the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. His first book, Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium, appeared in 2022.
Ian Ellison
Articles
Modernity’s Slumber Factory
Ian Ellison considers Sebastian P. Klinger’s “Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929.”
The Rise of Psychopower
Ian Ellison reviews Cate I. Reilly’s “Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State.”
A Transatlantic Metamorphosis: On Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists”
Ian Ellison reviews Brian K. Goodman’s “The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain.”
Alert Respect Before the Other Soul: On Katja Haustein’s “Alone with Others”
Ian Ellison reviews Katja Haustein’s “Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters.”
Ironic Detachment Will No Longer Do: On Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future”
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Tragic Revolutionary Comic Figures: On Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason”
Ian Ellison reviews Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller.”
Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass
Ian Ellison looks at Rilke's recently acquired archives.
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