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Jeannette Baxter is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), based in Cambridge. She holds leadership roles including Research Lead for the School of Humanities & Social Sciences and Faculty Lead for the Safe & Inclusive Communities Research. Her work bridges academia and community engagement, focusing on literature’s intersection with fascism, surrealism, migration, and war. She directs initiatives such as New Routes, Old Roots and co-founded A Day of Welcome, fostering refugee inclusion through arts-based action research. Baxter has secured significant grants, including National Heritage Lottery Fund awards for projects like Mile Cross 100 and Havens East.
Her research interests span surrealist anti/fascist narratives, exilic literatures, and historical acoustemology. She has supervised PhDs on topics like J.G. Ballard’s legacy, digital labor in literature, and resilience in Syrian refugee communities. Baxter’s scholarly output includes monographs, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed articles on surrealism, fascism, and migration. Notable publications include J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Imagination (2009) and forthcoming works like The Dark Surrealist Anti/Fascist Novel in Britain (2026).
Baxter has received two ARU Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Impact (2023, 2018) and serves on editorial boards such as Critical Engagements and the Contemporary Critical Perspectives series. She actively engages with public audiences through radio contributions (e.g., BBC Radio 4’s The Exploding Library), conferences, and exhibitions, emphasizing the societal relevance of literary and cultural studies.
