Academic Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections
Inflationary Modernities: Literature, Culture and Economy
Kieran Brown & Wayne Stables (editors)
Palgrave Macmillan (2026)
Collecting 10 chapters from different authors, this book examines inflation from various perspectives outside neo-classical economics. View Here
Journal Articles
"Uprising Marks: Walter Benjamin, Inflation and Bare Life"
Kieran Silbert Brown & Wayne Stables
New Literary History (forthcoming)
Using Walter Benjamin's underexplored writings on the Weimar Hyperinflation, this paper develops a new understanding of inflation as a paradigm of 'bare life.'
"Recasting Pound's Economy"
Kieran Silbert Brown
Textual Practice (2026)
This paper offers a new critique of Ezra Pound's economic philosophy, particularly as it bears on questions of time. View Here
"Cosmic Society: Language and Economy in Walter Benjamin"
Kieran Brown
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
This paper examines the intersection of language and economy in the writings of Walter Benjamin. View Here
"Faux Apparitions: Angels or Cannibals, Between Coetzee and Defoe"
Kieran Brown
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2024)
This article reexamines the relationship between J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. View Here
Book Chapters
"T.S. Eliot, out of South Africa"
Kieran Silbert Brown
In Eliot Beyond Borders, a special forum of the T.S. Eliot Studies Annual
This chapter explores Eliot's experiences and writings from his two trips to South Africa, in 1950 and 1954.
"Mark of Shame: On the Surface of the Weimar Hyperinflation"
Kieran Brown
In Inflationary Modernities (forthcoming)
This chapter theorises the links between the experience of shame and inflation during the Weimar hyperinflation.
Selected Conferences and Talks (2025)
"Uprising Marks: Walter Benjamin, Inflation and Bare Life"
Money Talks: Futures for the Economics Humanities (2025)
University of Edinburgh
Link Here"Holy Nomads: Gillian Rose, Edgar Allan Poe"
Broken Middles panel at ACLA (2025)
University of Toronto
"Mark of Shame: On the Surface of the Weimar Hyperinflation"
London Modernism Seminar (2025)
Institute of English Studies (KCL; Queen Mary; North Eastern UL; Royal Holloway UL)
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