Nick Hubble
I am Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK, where I am Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW).
I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for 12 months from 1 September 2023, 'Self-reflexivity, Class Consciousness, Culture Wars and Social Change in Britain': https://socialhumanities.home.blog/
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 Aris Mousoutzanis) of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), (with Philip Tew) of London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016), and (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 BCCW's 'Decades Series: British Fiction', published by 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 2000s: 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 Fiction (forthcoming, 2025).
I was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the years 2020-21 and 2021-22. I write about and review science fiction for publications including Tribune, Strange Horizons, ParSec and the BSFA Review; and blog about it here: https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/
Formerly, I have been both Director of Research (and REF lead for UOA 27) and 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. On 3 June 2014, I was quoted in the Guardian on how we took Brunel English to number 6 in the Subject league Tables. 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 Trust Fellowship for 12 months from 1 September 2023, 'Self-reflexivity, Class Consciousness, Culture Wars and Social Change in Britain': https://socialhumanities.home.blog/
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 Aris Mousoutzanis) of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), (with Philip Tew) of London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016), and (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 BCCW's 'Decades Series: British Fiction', published by 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 2000s: 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 Fiction (forthcoming, 2025).
I was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the years 2020-21 and 2021-22. I write about and review science fiction for publications including Tribune, Strange Horizons, ParSec and the BSFA Review; and blog about it here: https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/
Formerly, I have been both Director of Research (and REF lead for UOA 27) and 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. On 3 June 2014, I was quoted in the Guardian on how we took Brunel English to number 6 in the Subject league Tables. 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.
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Introduction - Nick Hubble
1 The Historical Context of Science Fiction - Nick Hubble
2 An Annotated Science Fiction Timeline - Joseph Norman
3 Major Science Fiction Authors - Nick Hubble, Emma Filtness and Joseph Norman
4 Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts - Christopher Daley
5 Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts - Jessica Langer
6 Key Critical Concepts, Topics and Critics - David M. Higgins and Roby Duncan
7 The Science Fiction Film - Aris Mousoutzanis
8 Science Fiction Criticism - Andrew M. Butler
9 Changes in the Canon - Adam Roberts
10 Issues of Sexuality, Gender and Ethnicity - Pat Wheeler
11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape - Sheryl Vint