Benjamin Bateman

Benjamin Bateman is a Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. His research interests include:

• Modern and contemporary literature
• Queer studies
• Environmental humanities.

His notable publications include The Modernist Art of Queer Survival (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is at work on a new book project examining early literary responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He recently received a British Academy/Leverhulme small fellowship to develop a symposium and edited collection on the topic of pandemics in literature, and he is newly at work on a book project, “Experiments in Dying,” that will revisit early literary responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.