Tomos Hughes

Tomos Hughes is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Previously, he held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the same department and taught at the University of Nottingham and Keele University.

• Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Nottingham
• M.A. in English, University of Sussex
• B.A. in English, University of York

His research focuses on the intersections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature with the history and legacies of slavery and emancipation. Key areas include:

• Reconstruction-era historical novels as a distinct genre
• Proslavery utopianism and its influence on black radical thought
• Temporal frameworks in abolitionist and post-abolition literature
• Marxist analyses of racial capitalism and colonialism

Publications explore speculative futures in proslavery fiction, counterfactual narratives of revolution, and the literary afterlives of slavery. His 2024 monograph systematically analyzes the Reconstruction period's narrative culture.

Scientific Awards:

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship