Kevin Brazil

Kevin Brazil is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, affiliated with the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing (CMCW). He holds a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford (2015), an MSt from Oxford (2011), and a BA from Trinity College Dublin (2009). He was a Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2023–24) and an Associate Member of the Temporal Communities Research Project. His research focuses on modern/contemporary literature, visual culture, and creative writing. He authored *Art, History, and Postwar Fiction* (Oxford UP, 2018) and the creative non-fiction *Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness?* (Influx Press, 2022), long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize. His creative works appear in *Granta*, *Frieze*, and others, with a website at kevinbrazil.com.

Current research includes a project on *Telling Time: History, Time, and The Novel*, exploring temporal theories in post-1945 fiction. He publishes in journals like *Modern Language Quarterly* and *Textual Practice*, analyzing figures like T.S. Eliot, Doris Lessing, and W.G. Sebald. Supervision interests include modern literature, visual culture, modernism, and creative writing on queerness or genre-blurring narratives.

His work bridges literary analysis and visual studies, addressing themes like lateness, extended present, and conceptual art. He welcomes PhD inquiries on 20th/21st-century literature, visual culture, and creative writing intersections.