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.
Employment
Academic third-party funded project staff
Department of English and American Studies
Universität WienAustria
1 Aug 2021 → present
Education
2019 | PHD ENGLISH, University of Exeter and University of Reading (AHRC-funded). |
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Thesis Title: Sensation Fiction and Modernity: Narratives of Order and Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain. | |
2015 | MA ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES, University of Exeter. Grade: Distinction. |
2014 | BA ENGLISH (HONS.), University of Exeter. Grade: Class I. |
Projects
LivFor: Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918
Green, J. & Pietrzak-Franger, M.
1/08/21 → 31/10/24
Research Interests
Publications
“Old things made new”: Transfusive rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”
Green, J., Jul 2023, In: Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 9, 1After Death to T. S. Eliot
Green, J., 2023, Wilkie Collins in Context. Nemesvari, R. & Baker, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 97-104 8 p.Contemporary
Green, J., 2023, Wilkie Collins in Context. Nemesvari, R. & Baker, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 89-96 8 p.‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)’
Green, J., Dec 2022, (Submitted) In: Women's Writing.Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War
Green, J., Oct 2022, (In preparation) Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life).Activities
'Death Outlived': Desiring and Fearing Longevity in Fin-de-siecle Britain
James Green (Speaker)
Constructing Age in Modern Literature
James Green (Speaker)
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard’s She (1887) and the ‘Young Soldier Problem’
James Green (Speaker)
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard's She (1887) and Literary Age Studies
James Green (Speaker)
‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)
James Green (Speaker)
'“Old Things Made New”: Transfusive Rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham”
James Green (Speaker)
‘“A Large Capital of New Blood”: Exchanging Youthfulness in Dowling and Milne’s Short Stories of 1887
James Green (Speaker)
'Death Outlived': Desiring and Fearing Longevity in Fin-de-siecle Britain
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Constructing Age in Modern Literature
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard’s She (1887) and the ‘Young Soldier Problem’
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard's She (1887) and Literary Age Studies
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
'“Old Things Made New”: Transfusive Rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham”
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
‘“A Large Capital of New Blood”: Exchanging Youthfulness in Dowling and Milne’s Short Stories of 1887
James Green (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien