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Associate Professor John Attridge is an academic at the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, specializing in modernist literature. His research explores modernist conceptions of authorship, literature-specialization relationships, technological media, and the cultural history of trust. He has co-edited two collections: Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art (2019) and Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust, and Deception (2013). His work appears in journals like ELH, Modernism/modernity, and NOVEL.
Research Interests: Attridge investigates intersections between modernist aesthetics and professional specialization, focusing on authorship frameworks, media evolution, and trust as a cultural construct. His scholarship bridges literary theory with interdisciplinary inquiries into institutional knowledge and artistic labor.
Awards:
- Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (2019)
- ANU Humanities Research Centre Fellow (2016)
- Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award (2010)
- Harry Ransom Center Fellow (2009-10)
- Australian Postgraduate Award
Supervision: He mentors Honours and PhD candidates in modernist and contemporary literature, with past students examining topics like architectural subjectivity in modernist fiction, Derrida/Deleuze textual theories, and rhythmic aesthetics in Woolf, Mansfield, and Lawrence.
