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

"Walter Benjamin and German Romanticism"

Kieran Silbert Brown

In The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin and Literature (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

This chapter investigates how early German Romanticism shaped Benjamin's literary and political work up until his death.

"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 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

This chapter theorises the links between the experience of shame and inflation during the Weimar hyperinflation.