Kontakt
Keplerstraße 17
70174 Stuttgart Stuttgart
Sprechstunde
Donnerstags, 14:00-15:00, mit Vereinbarung via E-Mail
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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01/10.2024 – Present |
Assistant Professor, Department of English Literatures and Cultures, University of Stuttgart |
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01/11/2023 – 31/07/2024
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Assistant Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Konstanz
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01/09/2020 – 31/08/2023 |
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
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01/11/2017 - 01/09/2020 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany |
EDUCATION
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01/09/2010 - 27/06/2016 |
PhD in English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK |
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01/09/2009 - 04/06/2010
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Postgraduate Diploma (PGdip) in Russian Language, University of Glasgow, UK |
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01/09/2008 - 18/12/2009 |
Masters (MA) in Creative Writing and English Literature, University of Manchester, UK |
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01/09/2004 - 26/07/2008 |
MA (hons) in Comparative Literature and Slavonic Studies at The University of Glasgow, UK |
Monographs and Edited Books
Wyndham Lewis, Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Left Wings Over Europe, ed. by Udith Dematagoda (Oxford: OUP, 2025) (in production)
Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017)
Book manuscript Machine Men, Machine Minds, Machine Hearts: Technology, Masculinity and Fascist Modernities (Currently under review with Johns Hopkins University Press, Hopkins Studies in Modernism)
Articles and Book Chapters
‘Diabolical Machines of Empty Will’: Wyndham Lewis on Technology, Masculinity and Fascist Aesthetics’, Wydnham Lewis and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) (Accepted)
Dematagoda, Udith & Asomatos, Christos, 'The Ideological Aesthetic, the Political as Inevitable and Epiphenomenal', Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 28, Issue 5 (2023)
‘Machinic Desire: Wyndham Lewis, Masculinity and the Sublime Horror of Technological War’, Modernist Cultures, November 2020, vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 488-514. ‘National Allegory as Negative Dialectic in Wyndham Lewis's Tarr’, The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, Volume 9, 2018.
‘Revenge of the Nerds: Recidivist Masculinity, Identity Politics and the online 'Culture Wars'’, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, Vol.1, no. 3, December 2017, University of Oslo Press
Prior to coming to Stuttgart, I was a researcher at the University of Konstanz from 2023-4, and held a fellowship at the Excellence cluster Temporal Communities at the Free University of Berlin. From 2020 to 2023 I was and Assistant Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo based at WIAS (Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies). I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Zukunftskolleg at Konstanz from 2017-2020. Originally from Scotland, I'm a modernist literature scholar and theorist. I have written on Vladimir Nabokov, Wyndham Lewis, the relation between ideology and aesthetics in Fascist Modernism, Aesthetic Theory and Digital Humanities. I took my PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2016. My recently completed book project focuses on the relationship between technology, masculinity, and fascism within English and European Modernist narratives, and examines work by Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti and Julius Evola - amongst others. Previously, I wrote on Vladimir Nabokov and politics. My first monograph 'Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic', was published in 2017. I am the editor of a volume of the Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis, 'Left Wings Over Europe', currently in production with Oxford University Press and due to be published in early 2025. I served on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) from 2021-2024.