Prof Joseph Brooker
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Overview
Overview
Highlights
My latest book is Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).
Qualifications
- BA English, University of East Anglia, 1994
- MA Culture & Communication, University of East Anglia, 1995
- PhD, University of London, 1999
- Professional Accreditation for Teaching in Higher Education , Institute of Education, 2001
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Modernism
- Irish Literature
- C20 British writing and culture
- US Fiction
Research overview
I work on modern and contemporary literature and culture, concentrating primarily on Britain, Ireland and the United States. I have written in particular on the work of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien, and on British and American writing since the 1980s.
James Joyce
My first book, Joyce’s Critics (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), was a contribution to the study of James Joyce and the reception of modernism through the twentieth century. The book has received the following responses:
‘A vibrant guide to the reception of Joyce’s work by many minds and cultures. Joe Brooker sifts the evidence with such clarity that his own study becomes a distinguished addition to the canon of Joyce criticism.’ – Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland‘A very important work.’ – Michael Patrick Gillespie
‘He has taught me a great deal, and I don’t think there’s a Joyce critic alive who wouldn’t learn much that is valuable from this book.’ – Joseph Kelly, James Joyce Literary Supplement
‘It reads like a well-written novel of ideas.’ – English Literature in Transition
I have published several chapters, articles and reviews on Joyce’s work, and given numerous papers in this field, in the UK, Ireland and Italy.
I continue to teach Joyce at BA and MA level, and to be involved in the University of London seminars for research into Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
o In June 2011 I co-organized a two-day international conference on Joycean Literature, along with Finn Fordham. The conference featured 40 papers from international scholars on diverse aspects of Joyce's literary legacy. Plenary addresses were given by Prof Michael Wood (Princeton) and Prof Derek Attridge (University of York).
o In 2012 the British Library asked me to present an event on Bloomsday (16th June) introducing James Joyce’s Ulysses to a large audience of the general public. I organized the event with Finn Fordham (RHUL) and with actors to give readings from Joyce’s book.
o In 2014 was the organizer of the 2-day conference 100 Dubliners, which marked 100 years since James Joyce’s first book of fiction.
o I advised on the International James Joyce Symposium, held at the Institute of English Studies in June 2016. This was the largest event on Joyce in London since 2000.
Flann O'Brien
My book Flann O’Brien (Northcote House, 2005) seeks to demonstrate his peculiar relevance to developing areas in Irish Studies and the new modernist studies: notably nationalism and postcolonial conditions, and the mass-market press in which Flann O’Brien unleashed so much of his wit. I have also explored these issues in a number of chapters and essays.
In 2004 I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Law and Society (31:1, March 2004) with Patrick Hanafin and Adam Gearey from Birkbeck’s School of Law. My own contribution looks closely at a number of texts by Flann O’Brien that had not previously received critical attention, seeking to situate these in the context of postcolonial law.
o Arising from this work, in February 2005 I was invited to give three papers (on satire, literature and theory) at Cardozo School of Law, New York City.
o In September 2015 I gave the opening keynote address, 'Do Bicycles Dream of Molecular Sheep?', at the biannual International Flann O'Brien Symposium, which was held in Prague. A much expanded and revised version of this keynote was later published in The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies.
The 1980s and after
Much of my teaching and writing has been in areas closer to the present day. With Roger Luckhurst I co-edited a special edition of New Formations on Remembering the 1990s (50, Autumn 2003). This interdisciplinary set of essays was one of the first academic publications to attempt a review of the decade which had recently passed.From 2012 to 2018 I was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Contemporary Literature, situated in Birkbeck's School of Arts. This made me responsible for organizing events involving writers and critics. Our website contains a thorough online archive of our events.
My book Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2010. This book, written with the support of a grant from the AHRC, considers a wide range of British writers in relation to major topics and conflicts of the 1980s, and is the first full-length study of British literature and culture in that decade. In May 2011 I gave a research paper based on this material to staff at the Freie Universität Berlin. In August 2011 I discussed this book with Ray Ryan and Stuart Kelly on a panel at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Literature of the 1980s has received the following responses:
‘The real strength of the book lies in its ability to provide such an impressively thorough account of a wide range of texts alongside some impassioned and convincing close readings of so many of them. Brooker is doing much more than simply defining, checking or expanding the shifting canons of eighties literature: his literary readings and his sense of the period make both available to us anew.’ – Nicky Marsh, Textual Practice
‘Joseph Brooker's book manages the admirable task of introducing and even historicising a period whose legacy is just beginning to be understood. Ranging from Derrida to Duran Duran, he provides an exemplary work of literary and cultural history, while braiding politics and literature together in revealing close readings of key authors and texts. This is a brave, lucid and richly informed book, necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding a tumultuous period in the cultural history of these islands.’ – Ray Ryan, author of Writing in the Irish Republic and co-editor, The Good of the Novel
In 2009 I organised a one-day symposium at Birkbeck to mark the 25th anniversary of Martin Amis’s novel Money. This resulted in a special issue of Textual Practice which I edited for publication in 2012.
In 2012 I chaired events at the Bloomsbury Festival featuring, among others, the biographer Rosemary Ashton, Prof John Sutherland, the author Lynne Truss and Faber novelist Alex Preston. At 2013’s Bloomsbury Festival I held a public conversation with the writer Iain Sinclair and the radical academic and public intellectual Professor Phil Cohen.
US Literature
In recent years, more of my teaching and writing has concerned modern American literature. I have taught numerous classes on American modernism (from Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston) and on contemporary US fiction (from Toni Morrison to Jennifer Egan). My fourth book, Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (London: Bloomsbury, 2020) is one of the first full-length studies of this prolific and acclaimed US novelist. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his work, the book considers influence and intertextuality; the role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler.Research Centres and Institutes
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who are interested in undertaking research in areas on which I have expertise.
These might include: James Joyce; Flann O'Brien; Modernism, especially Irish; British literature and culture, especially the late C20 areas explored in my work; US fiction; the history of modern literary criticism and ways of writing about culture.
As of August 2021 I have supervised or co-supervised 12 PhDs to completion.
I am currently supervising students in the following areas:
- Samuel Beckett and Radio Drama
- French Theory in British Culture, 1956-1986
- Camp Modernism
Current doctoral researchers
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EMILY BEST
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FIONA BUCK
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MARCUS MURPHY
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PAUL MARTIN
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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DICKON EDWARDS
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COLM MCAULIFFE
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HELENA ESSER
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TOBIAS HARRIS
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YUTAKA OKUHATA
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ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON
Teaching
At BA, MA and PhD level I teach literature in English from modernism to the present day. I was director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature for two spells between 2008 and 2016. From 2012 to 2013 I was director of BA English. I have also served as deputy director of postgraduate research.
From 2018 to 2021 I served as Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Research Students in the School of Arts.
From 2002-2005 I was the external examiner of the Foundation Certificate in Literature at Goldsmiths College. From 2007 to 2010 I served as external examiner for the BA English degree at the University of Sussex. From 2015 to 2017 I was External Examiner for the MA in Modernism & Contemporary Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2017 to 2019 I was external examiner for the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge.
Teaching modules
- Dissertation (Literature and Culture 1800-present) (AREN145D7)
- America Rewired: US Literature and Culture since the 1960s (AREN249S6)
- Writing the Planet (AREN292S7)
- Modes of American Writing (AREN301S7)
- Writing London (ENHU007S4)
- Becoming Modern (ENHU049S7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Brooker, Joseph (2023) Like the brother: Flann O’Brien and John Millington Synge. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 7 (1), ISSN 2634-145X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2022) Apes in the Plan: an unpublished typescript by Jonathan Lethem. Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 10 (2), ISSN 2398-6786.
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) Contexts from Constantine Curran. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 5 (1), pp. 1-6. ISSN 2634-145X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) In memoriam: John Wyse Jackson. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 4 (2), pp. 1-9. ISSN 2634-145X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) Do Bicycles Dream of Atomic Sheep? Forms of the Fantastic in Flann O’Brien and Philip K. Dick. The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 4 (2), pp. 1-23. ISSN 2634-145X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2020) Not winnin’ anymore: Boys from The Blackstuff and the literature of recession. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies pp. 40-53. ISSN 2071-1107.
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) “Everywhere I look, you could frame it”: David Mitchell’s Mission to Describe. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 10, pp. 40-46. ISSN 2071-1107.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Waiting for Beckett. Crossings 6, pp. 2-17. ISSN 2040-4344.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) ‘Weather Reports: essays on the work of Steven Connor’, edited by Joseph Brooker. Critical Quarterly 56 (2), pp. E1-E4. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) An oblique blaze in things. Critical Quarterly 56 (2), pp. 26-40. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Brooker, Joseph (2012) Introduction: listen to "Money" singing. Textual Practice 26 (1), pp. 1-10. ISSN 0950-236X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2012) Sado-monetarism: Thatcherite subjects in Alasdair Gray and Martin Amis. Textual Practice 26 (1), pp. 135-154. ISSN 0950-236X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2011) "That Carrousel Inside and Outside My Head": Flann O’Brien and pale fire. Review of Contemporary Fiction 31 (3), pp. 120-133. ISSN 0276-0045.
- Brooker, Joseph (2009) License is given: money and the menace of comedy. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (Special issue on Contemporary Satire) 3 (2), pp. 73-90. ISSN 1754-0984.
- Brooker, Joseph (2006) Forbidden to dream again: Orwell and nostalgia. English 55 (213), pp. 281-297. ISSN 0013-8215.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Orgreave revisited: David Peace’s GB84 and the return to the 1980s. Radical Philosophy (133), pp. 39-51. ISSN 0300-211X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Neo lines: Alan Hollinghurst and the apogee of the eighties. The Literary Criterion 40 (3&4), pp. 104-116. ISSN 0024-452X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Satire bust: the wagers of money. Law and Literature 17 (3), pp. 321-344. ISSN 1535-685X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) What we talk about when we talk about death. Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 847-867. ISSN 0270-5192.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Estopped by Grand Playsaunce: Flann O'Brien's Post-colonial Lore. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 15-37. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction - On writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Unknown quantity: Joyce's words. In other words: a journal for literary translators 24,
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) A balloon filled with verbal gas: blather and the Irish ready-made school. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English, 1914-1945 2 (2), pp. 74-98. ISSN 1542-8109.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Children of destiny: Brian O’Nolan and the Irish ready-made school. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English, 1914-1945 2 (1), pp. 74-98. ISSN 1542-8109.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Commercial alternative. New Formations 50, pp. 106-122. ISSN 0950-2378.
- Brooker, Joseph and Luckhurst, Roger (2003) Introduction: Remembering the 1990s. New Formations 50, ISSN 0950-2378.
- Brooker, Joseph (2001) To live outside the law: Frank O'Hara. Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23 (3), pp. 263-270. ISSN 0144-932X.
- Brooker, Joseph (2001) What tedium: boredom in "Malone dies". Journal of Beckett Studies 10 (1-2), pp. 29-39.
Book
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Jonathan Lethem and the galaxy of writing. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350003767.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Literature of the 1980s: after the watershed. The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain. 9, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748633944.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) Flann O'Brien. Writers and their works. Tavistock, Devon: Northcote House. ISBN 0 7463 1081 1.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph, eds. (2004) Law and literature. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Joyce's critics: transitions in reading and culture. Madison, Wis, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0 299 19604 6.
Book Review
- Brooker, Joseph (2022) Steven Connor, The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (London: Reaktion, 2019), 368pp. ISBN 978-1-78914-072-9.
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) Gerry McGowan and Andrew Sherlock (eds), The Lost Letters of Flann O’Brien (Wirral: Pen & Pencil Gallery).
- Brooker, Joseph (2020) Serial Encounters: Ulysses and The Little Review by Clare Hutton.
- Brooker, Joseph (2020) Serial Encounters: Ulysses and The Little Review. Clare Hutton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Palimpsests: The Flann O’Brien Conference (University College Dublin, 16-19 July 2019).
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Flann O'Brien, The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien.
Book Section
- Brooker, Joseph (2022) Lethem, Jonathan. In: O'Donnell, P. and Burn, S. and Larkin, L. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781119431718.
- Brooker, Joseph (2021) Lethem, Jonathan. In: Burn, S.J. and O'Donnell, P. and Larkin, L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020. Wiley-Blackwell. (In Press)
- Brooker, Joseph (2019) Raymond’s Fen. In: Harle, Matthew and Machin, James (eds.) Of Mud & Flame - A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook. Strange Attractor. ISBN 9781907222689.
- Brooker, Joseph (2018) Jonathan Lethem. In: Eaglestone, D. and O'Gorman, R. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. Routledge Literature Companions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415716048.
- Brooker, Joseph (2018) Jonathan Coe's stories of sadness. In: Tew, P. (ed.) Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 35-50. ISBN 9781350027688.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) What James Joyce did in the war. In: Alam, F. and Ahmed, T. and Alam, Z. (eds.) The Great War and Our Mindscapes: Centenary Essays. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Writers.ink. pp. 82-104.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Around 2000: memoir as literature. In: Smyth, A. (ed.) A History of English Autobiography. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 374-387. ISBN 9781107078413.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Involutions of the word: Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Lethem. In: D'Arcy, M. and Nilges, M. (eds.) The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis. pp. 105-120. ISBN 9781138917033.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Reanimating historical fiction. In: James, D. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160-176. ISBN 9781107562714.
- Brooker, Joseph (2015) Fiction in a fictionalized society. In: Leggett, B. and Venezia, A. (eds.) Twenty-First Century Fiction. London, UK: Gylphi. pp. 1-9. ISBN 9781780240213.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Reception history. In: Latham, S. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 19-32. ISBN 9781107073906.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Ploughmen without land: Flann O'Brien and Patrick Kavanagh. In: Murphet, I. and McDonald, R. and Morrell, S. (eds.) Flann O’Brien and Modernism. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781623568757.
- Brooker, Joseph (2014) Thatcherism and literature. In: Tew, P. and Horton, E. and Wilson, L. (eds.) The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-1980s-a-decade-of-contemporary-british-fiction-9781441126498/#sthash.n0rBgyDU.dpuf. The Decades Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781441126498.
- Brooker, Joseph (2013) The art of offence: British literary censorship since 1971 (1971 - present day). In: Bradshaw, D. and Potter, R. (eds.) Prudes on the Prowl: Literature, Obscenity and Censorship in England, 1850 to the Present Day. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 179-207. ISBN 9780199697564.
- Brooker, Joseph (2011) Myles’ tones. In: Baines, J. (ed.) 'Is it about a bicycle?' Flann O'Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press. pp. 17-31. ISBN 9781846822407.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien. In: Wright, J.M. (ed.) A Companion to Irish Literature. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. New York, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 176-192. ISBN 9781405188098.
- Brooker, Joseph (2010) Has the world changed or have I changed? The Smiths and the challenge of Thatcherism. In: Campbell, S. and Coulter, C. (eds.) Why Pamper Life's Complexities? Essays on the Smiths. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719078408.
- Brooker, Joseph (2009) Post-war Joyce. In: McCourt, J. (ed.) James Joyce in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52-64. ISBN 9780521886628.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) Mind that crowd: Flann O'Brien's authors. In: Hadjiafxendi, K. and Mackay, P. (eds.) Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 91-110. ISBN 9781403949011.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) "Remember Everything": things past in Station Island. In: Hall, J.D. and Bland Crowder, A. (eds.) Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2007. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 155-171. ISBN 9780230003422.
- Brooker, Joseph (2007) Remember everything: things past in station island. In: Bland Crowder, A. and Hall, J.D. (eds.) Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 155-171. ISBN 9780230206267.
- Brooker, Joseph (2006) The middle years of Martin Amis. In: Mengham, Rod and Tew, Philip (eds.) British Fiction Today. London, UK; New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.. pp. 3-14. ISBN 826487319.
- Brooker, Joseph (2005) The fidelity of theory: James Joyce and the rhetoric of belatedness. In: Nash, J. (ed.) Joyce's Audiences. European Joyce Studies. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. pp. 201-221. ISBN 9789042011137.
- Brooker, Joseph (2004) Shades of the eighties: The Colour of Memory. In: Phillips, L. (ed.) The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London. Costerus. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi BV. pp. 139-152. ISBN 90-420-1663-9.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) The poetics of truth and reconciliation. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 38-60. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Hanafin, Patrick (2004) Living on in law and literature. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Revitalising law and literature. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Brooker, Joseph (2003) Larrygogan in space: Roddy Doyle’s global village. In: Laplace, P. and Tabuteau, E. (eds.) Cities on the Margin - On the Margin of Cities. Littérature et histoire des pays de langues européennes. Besancon, France: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. pp. 201-215. ISBN 9782848670188.
Editorial
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction: on writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. Wiley. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Brooker, Joseph and Luckhurst, Roger (2003) Remembering the 1990s. New Formations 50, Lawrence and Wishart. ISSN 0950-2378.
Other
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on America after the Fall at the Royal Academy of Arts. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on ‘Carol’, by Chuck Berry & Keith Richards. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on Eduardo Paolozzi at the Whitechapel Gallery. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on SS-GB. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on St Joan at the Donmar Warehouse. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Joseph Brooker on La La Land. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: Child be strange. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: He doesn’t talk politics anymore. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2017) Report: James Joyce on TV. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Eimear McBride in conversation with Jacqueline Rose. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before it Falls. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on Jonathan Lethem, Amnesia Moon and Donald Trump. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Joseph Brooker on maps and the 20th Century: drawing the line at the British Library. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Lloyd Cole & The Leopards. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) William Eggleston: portraits. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Shakespeare in Ten Acts. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Ghostbusters (2016). Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Brooker, Joseph (2016) Stuart David, In the All-Night Café: A memoir of Belle and Sebastian’s formative year. Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.