Dr Kiron Ward

Dr Kiron Ward

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2673
Email
kw238@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 205
Location
Kennedy Hall

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Biography

Following a very brief career in English local government, Kiron undertook a PhD on modernist and contemporary literature at the University of Sussex. Since then, he has worked at the Universities of East Anglia, Sussex, Copenhagen, Birmingham, and Essex. Kiron joined ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in 2022.

Teaching

2025/26

EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance

EN3220 Queer It! Introducing Queer Literature and Theory

EN4399 Dissertation in English (coordinator)

EN4437 US Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond

EN4794 Joint Dissertation (coordinator)

MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Culture

MLitt in Women, Writing, and Gender (co-director)

Research areas

Kiron researches modern and contemporary literatures, and has a background in hemispheric American Studies. He is especially interested in encyclopaedism, totality, epistemology, and literary aesthetics; his work draws particularly, but not exclusively, on 20thÌýand 21stÌýCentury British, Irish, North American, Caribbean, and Latinx fiction.

Kiron's recent monograph, Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2025), focuses on the relationship between literature and totality, particularly as it pertains to questions of epistemic violence and injustice, and looks particularly at the work of Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Olga Tokarczuk. Kiron's previous publications include two special issues on James Joyce, (James Joyce Quarterly 55.1-2; with James Blackwell Phelan) and (Textual Practice 26.2; with E. Paige Miller), and one edited collection, (Bloomsbury; with Katie Da Cunha Lewin).

Since July 2025, Kiron has been co-editor-in-chief of with Katie Da Cunha Lewin.

Kiron's future research projects look to global modernist studies and plantation studies.

Selected publications

  • Ward, K., 6 Feb 2025, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 223 p. (New horizons in contemporary writing; vol. 21)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Ward, K., 1 Sept 2023, The Edinburgh companion to Don DeLillo and the arts. Gander, C. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 222-234 13 p. (Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Miller, E. P. & Ward, K., 2 Feb 2022, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 182-185 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Ward, K., 16 Dec 2021, In: Textual Practice. 36, 2, p. 326-347 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ward, K., 1 May 2021, In: Journal of American Studies. 55, 2, p. 517-518 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Ward, K., 1 Jul 2020, In: Modern Language Review. 115, 3, p. 717-718 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Open access
    Martyn Bone & Ward, K., 10 Jun 2020, Universitetsavisen.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Ward, K., 9 Aug 2018, In: James Joyce Quarterly. 54, 1-2, p. 207-210 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Da Cunha Lewin, K. (Editor) & Ward, K. (Editor), 4 Oct 2018, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 198 p. (Contemporary critical perspectives series)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Katherine Da Cunha Lewin, 4 Oct 2018, Don DeLillo : contemporary critical perspectives. Da Cunha Lewin, K. & Ward, K. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1-16 16 p. (Contemporary critical perspectives series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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