James Baxter; Writer, Researcher, Tutor, Editorial Consultant, Academic

James is the author of Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction [Palgrave, 2021]. He has published widely, contributing to academic journals, as well as a variety of arts and culture magazines including PopMatters, Entropy and The Modernist Review. He has a passion for storytelling and is particularly interested in off-beat writing that is playful and adopts unorthodox formal structures.

James graduated with a BA from the University of Liverpool then with an MA and finally a PhD from the University of Reading where he completed his research on the impact of Samuel Beckett in 20^th and 21^st century American culture.

James was an IRC Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, where he worked on a 2-year study concerning post-45 American periodical culture and ‘mass-market modernism.’ James is an editor for the arts magazine Hypocrite Reader and Editorial Assistant at The London Ghostwriting Company.

Favourite books: Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett and Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.