University of Minnesota Press, 2027
Rupture and Rapture: French Theory in Britain traces the reception of French theory - a constellation of philosophical, political, and psychoanalytical thinkers, among them Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva - in Britain during the late twentieth century. Its premise is that French theory's reception in Britain owed a great deal to institutions and individuals operating at least one remove from academia, among them the New Left Review, the British Film Institute, Screen journal, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the popular music press.
This was the basis for my PhD which was passed without corrections at Birkbeck, University of London.
The writing of the book is funded by an ISRF First Book Fellowship Award, 2025-26.