Rate My Professor Timothy Bewes

Bewes specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, aesthetic theory, Marxist and poststructuralist literary theory, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and the politics and ethics of form in Literature. His monographs include Cynicism and Postmodernity (Verso, 1997), Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso, 2002), The Event of Postcolonial Shame (Princeton University Press, 2011), and Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia University Press, 2022), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2022. He has edited volumes such as Georg Lukács: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence (Continuum, 2011, with Timothy Hall), Jacques Rancière and the Novel (Duke University Press, 2014), and The Anagonist (Duke University Press, 2020). Notable articles include “Against Exemplarity: W. G. Sebald and the Problem of Connection” (Contemporary Literature, 2014), which won the L. S. Dembo Prize in 2015. Bewes has been an editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction since 2005 and serves on the editorial board of New Formations since 1998. He convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute and teaches courses on contemporary fiction, critical theory, and aesthetics.