Dr David Anderson

Email: david.anderson@ucl.ac.uk
Office: FC 138
External phone: 020 7679 3142
Internal phone: 33142

Education and Experience

David Anderson studied English at UCL, completing his BA, MA and PhD in the department before spending a year as a Research Associate in the UCL Urban Lab, where he co-organised the City, Essay, Film symposium and screening series. From 2019 to 2023, he was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary University of London. In 2022 he was also a visiting Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin. He has taught English and European literature at UCL, QMUL and City Lit.

Research Interests

David’s research centres on modern and contemporary literature and film, and includes a focus on intercultural comparison. He is currently completing a project on nostalgia and popular culture in Britain and Germany since the late 1970s. Much of his work has to do with the built environment: as part of the ‘Infrastructural Narratives’ research project, he has written about structures including the QE2 bridge and the M11 link road in east London. His doctoral research explored the depiction of English landscape and townscape (especially London) in literature and film, and his book Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Books

Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Articles and Chapters

‘Exiles of NW3: the “Free German League of Culture” in Upper Park Road’, in Alistair Robinson and Charlotte Grant (eds.), Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration (Bloomsbury, 2024)

‘Travel Writing’ in Uwe Schütte (ed.), W.G. Sebald in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

‘Mountains, dreams and pop culture in Christian Kracht’s alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten’ in Richard McClelland and Andrea Capovilla (eds.), The Draw of the Alps (De Gruyter, 2023)

‘Home Truths: “Heritage”, “Heimat” and 1980s television in Britain and Germany’, Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (December 2021)

‘Speculative Topography: The Fantastical Overdetermination of Space in Iain Sinclair’s Early Writing’, The Literary London Journal, Vol. 16, No.1 (Autumn 2020)

‘A Melancholy Topography: Patrick Keiller's Vision of London in the 1990s’, in Pam Hirsch and Chris O'Rourke (eds.) London on Film: The City and Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

‘Patrick Keiller, Stonebridge Park, and “the Subjective Transformation of Space”’ Moveable Type, November 2016

Blogs/other

‘Kill the Spiders’, New Left Review ‘Sidecar’ blog, May 2023