Dr Dominic Dean

Biography

I am a scholar of modern and contemporary fiction and film. My research explores children, migration, institutions and intergenerational conflict in contemporary British fiction, through both Psychoanalytic and historicist lens. I have published extensively on the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as on other major contemporary authors like Alan Hollinghurst, Sarah Waters, Ian McEwan and Jim Crace, and on more recently-emerging twenty-first century authors like Melissa Harrison and David Szalay. I have published interviews with Hollinghurst, Harrison and Szalay. My first monograph, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, was published by SUNY Press in 2024, I am currently working on a second book, Ishiguro on Film. My work has been published in journals including Textual Practice, Literature and History, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and English Studies. Reviewers of Killing Children in British Fiction described it as ‘an authoritative, acute and insightful book on a highly important topic’ and ‘a significant contribution to theories of childhood’. I am a member of the executive committee of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS), and am Senior Editor (Literature and Criticism) for the journal Cogent Arts and Humanities.