Timothy Bewes

Timothy Bewes is the Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 2004. His research bridges contemporary fiction, poststructuralist theory, Marxist literary analysis, and postcolonial studies, with a focus on the politics and ethics of literary form. He has held fellowships at the Pembroke Center and Cogut Institute for the Humanities, and co-edits the Film-Thinking series.

• Education: DPhil and MA from University of Sussex, BA from University of North London.

Bewes' scholarship interrogates the ontological status of fiction and the materiality of literary works, as seen in his National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022). His recent articles explore intersections between novel theory, Black studies, and Deleuzean philosophy, emphasizing repetition, dialogicality, and anti-representational frameworks.

Notable awards include the L. S. Dembo Prize (2015) and Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellowship (2012-13). He teaches courses such as The Terrible Century, Capitalism & its Metamorphoses, and Bakhtin and the Political Present.