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Kieran Brown is a Lecturer in English at Somerville College, University of Oxford, commencing September 2025. Previously, he served as a Post-Award Member at Hertford College and held visiting research positions at Humboldt University of Berlin (2023) and University of Cape Town (2024).
His academic credentials include a DPhil in English from Hertford College, Oxford (awarded November 2024) and an MSt in English (1900-present) from the University of Oxford, with dissertations examining Walter Benjamin's economic writings and Beckett's Trilogy respectively.
Dr. Brown's research pioneers the Economic Humanities field, investigating intersections between literary production and economic systems. His work spans modernist literature, philosophical linguistics, and postcolonial economies, with particular focus on South African fiction and theoretical frameworks from Benjamin to Defoe. Current projects include book development from his doctoral thesis and the edited volume Inflationary Modernities.
Publication trends reveal consistent exploration of economic metaphors across historical periods—from 18th-century capitalism in Defoe to contemporary consumption narratives in Coetzee—with recurring emphasis on language-economy dialectics in modernist theory.
His scholarly recognition includes:
- Rhodes Scholarship (South Africa at-Large & Hertford, 2019)
- Skye Foundation Scholarship
- Scatcherd European Scholarship
Dr. Brown maintains extensive teaching experience across Oxford colleges, delivering undergraduate instruction in Victorian/20th-century literature and literary theory while supervising numerous dissertations. His research was funded through the aforementioned scholarships during doctoral studies, with ongoing support for his monograph project.
No laboratory or team affiliations are documented in available sources.
