James Aaron Green, PhD
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Austria

James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral researcher (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. His current project (2021–24) is Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918.

James is a British-born literary historian of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His recent work is in literary age and aging studies, in particular fictions of radical life extension. He holds additional interests in the gothic, sensation fiction, and game studies. His work has been published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Wilkie Collins in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Gothic Dreams/Nightmares (Manchester UP, 2024), among other places. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan; a second, based on his APART-GSK project, is due with Bloomsbury Academic.

In addition to teaching experience at two members of the Russell Group of UK universities, James has a diverse history of academic service and experience of gaining competitive grant funding from various sources.