Nick Hubble

Background

About Nick Hubble

I am Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK, where I am the Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW). Formerly, I have been both the Director of Research and the Director of Teaching and Learning for Arts & Humanities at Brunel, and Head of English at Brunel, where I successfully led a full programme redesign of level 1 and level 2 of our undergraduate programme. I also took Brunel English through our 5-yearly Annual Programme Review, in which we gained 4 commendations. I was an external examiner at the University of Northampton from 2012-2015. I have recently been the external examiner of PhDs at the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, the University of Western Australia, Portsmouth University, Aberystwyth University, UCL, Oxford, McGill, Salford and Kings College London. I currently hold a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-24) for a project 'Self-Reflexivity, Class Consciousness, Culture Wars and Social Change in Britain': https://socialhumanities.home.blog/ I was one of the judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award during 2020-21 and 2021-22. I have written about science fiction for publications including Tribune, LA Review of Books, Strange Horizons and ParSec. I write a column for Vector, the journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and I blog about SF here: https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/ I am the author of Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (2006; second edition 2010) and The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (2017). I am co-author (with Philip Tew) of Ageing, Narrative and Identity (2013). I am the co-editor (with Ben Clarke) of Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice (2018). I am one of the series editors (with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson) of The Decades Series: British Fiction, Bloomsbury Academic. So far, I have co-edited 7 volumes in this series:(with John McLeod and Philip Tew) The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (2014),(with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson) The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (2015),(with Nick Bentley and Leigh Wilson) The A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (2015),(with Nick Bentley and Alice Ferrebe) The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (2018),(with Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor) The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (2021),(with Nick Bentley, Emily Horton and Philip Tew) The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (2024), and The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British (forthcoming, 2025).