Max Saunders
Max Saunders is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He was Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at King’s College London, where he and Clare Brant founded the Centre for Life Writing Research. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Oxford University Press, 2010); the editor of five volumes of Ford’s writing, including an annotated critical edition of Some Do Not . . . (Carcanet, 2010), and has published essays on life writing, on Impressionism, and on a number of modern writers. His book Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923–31 was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2008 to 2010; and in 2013 an Advanced Grant from the ERC as Principal Investigator for the five-year collaborative project on digital life writing, Ego Media, of which this digital publication is the primary collective output.
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To-Day and To-Morrow Online: Technology, Futurology, and Networked Self-Presentation > Life Online To-Day and To-Morrow
Life Online To-Day and To-Morrow
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Self-Observation Online > Mass Observation Directive
Mass Observation Directive
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Self-Observation Online > Observations
Observations
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Self-Observation Online > Selected Mass Observation Responses
Selected Mass Observation Responses
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To-Day and To-Morrow Online: Technology, Futurology, and Networked Self-Presentation > The To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923–1931
The To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923–1931
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