Sam Waterman

Dr. Sam Waterman is an Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London, where he also serves as the NU London Ambassador to the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. His academic work centers on 19th to 21st-century Anglophone literature and literary theory.

Education:

• PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania
• MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex
• BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Sussex

His research explores histories of work, gender and sexuality studies, and affect theory. He is currently finalizing a monograph titled After Men: Modernist Adventure and the Regendering of Work, examining post-industrial work ethics through authors like E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, with contemporary analyses of Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney.

Teaching includes undergraduate courses such as 'The Victorians and Us', 'Literature 1900 to the Present', and the Contemporary Creative Writing MA program.