Philip Tew is Course Director, MA in Literary Studies and Reader in English & Aesthetics at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He is also honorary Reader in English & Aesthetics at University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is founder and Director of the London Network for Modern Fiction Studies, part of his commitment to a longstanding interest in radical representations of London. He completed a PhD on B. S. Johnson in 1997 and subsequently published B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (Manchester University Press, 2001). These both chart Johnson's unconventional view his home city. Other publications include co-editing Contemporary British Fiction (Polity, 2003, "B. S. Johnson" in The Review of Contemporary Fiction (22:1, Spring 2002), "Reconsidering Literary Interpretation" in After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism (Athlone Press, 2001), and a chapter on Beckett's prose fragments in Beckett and Philosophy (Macmillan/St. Martins 2002). Forthcoming is a critical afterword to a new illustrated edition by an independent anarchist press of James Thomson City of Dreadful Night (Agraphia, 2003). Currently working toward imminent completion of a monograph on contemporary British fiction (Athlone/Continuum), and subsequently another on novelist, Jim Crace, originally from London (Manchester University Press Contemporary British Writers series).


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