Books
Single-author books
- Late Cold War Literature and Culture: The Nuclear 1980s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
- Science Fiction Studies review: ‘important and valuable’; ‘cogent and compelling’; a ‘deeply researched and effectively argued study’
- Orbit review: there is ‘richness of … discussion of the social/political/historical context of the 1980s’; makes ‘innovative correlations … between texts’
- BSLS review: ‘successfully captures the intriguing nuances of the nuclear age’
- States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (Manchester University Press, 2008)
- Technology and Culture review: ‘insightful and compelling’
- BSLS review: ‘a brilliant analysis of North American literature during the Cold War’
- Modern Fiction Studies review: opens up ‘rich, important pathways for future nuclear criticism’
- Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate (Ashgate, 1999)
Co-edited books
- Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Sarah Jackson
- Features fiction and poetry, emerging from a visit to Nottingham’s abandoned bunker, by critically acclaimed writers Zayneb Allak, Hannah Cooper-Smithson, Daniel Cordle, Anthony Cropper, Ailbhe Darcy, Jay Gao, Maria Gil Ulldemolins, Delphine Grass, Jonathan Hogg, Helena Hunter, Phil Leonard, Jon McGregor, and Andrew Taylor, and photographs by Martine Hamilton-Knight
- Writing the Contemporary: Poetry and Postcards from UNESCO Cities of Literature (Trent Editions, 2019), co-edited with Jo Dixon
Creative Work
- ‘Etcetera: Annotations to the Counter Room Inventory’ – short fiction
- Part of Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024)
- ‘In Sure and Certain Hope’ – short story
- Winner of the East Midlands Prize in the 2022 Aurora international writing competition
- ‘Surface Tension’ – short story
- Highly commended in the 2017 Manchester Writing Prize
Journalism
- ‘Oppenheimer: Six Other Depictions of the ‘Father of the Atom Bomb’ on Page, Stage and Screen’, The Conversation (20 July, 2023)
- ‘Long After Midnight: On Our New Nuclear Fears’, Expert Blog, Nottingham Trent University (2 March, 2022)
- ‘This is What Happened the Morning the First Atomic Bomb Created a New World’, The Conversation (15 July, 2020)
- ‘Hiroshima’s Literary Legacy: The Blinding Flash That Changed the World Forever’, The Conversation (6 August, 2015)
- ‘Are You Ready for the Terror Drill?’, Guardian (22 March, 2005)
Book chapters
- ‘Science Fiction in the Atomic Age’, in Glyn Morgan (ed.), Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination (Thames & Hudson, 2022), pp. 222-41
- ‘The Politics of Vulnerability: Nuclear Peril and the Global Imagination’, in Andrew Hammond (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 143-61
- ‘Climate Criticism and Nuclear Criticism’, in Adeline Johns-Putra (ed.), Climate and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 281-97
- ‘Legacy Waste: Nuclear Culture After the Cold War’, in Michael Blouin et al, The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World (Cambridge Scholars, 2014), pp. 230-49
- ‘Beyond the Apocalypse of Closure: Nuclear Anxiety in Postmodern Literature of the United States’, in Andrew Hammond (ed.), Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (Routledge, 2006), pp. 63-77
- ‘States of Being, Not Being in States: Metaphysical Border Crossings in the Work of Milan Kundera’, in Sharon Ouditt (ed.), Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture (Ashgate, 2002), pp. 128-37
- ‘Resisting Decadence: Literary Criticism as a Corrective to Low Culture and High Science in the Work of I.A. Richards’, in Michael St John, Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture (Ashgate, 1999), pp. 171-82
Journal articles
- ‘Introduction: The Literature of the Anthropocene’ (with Diletta De Cristofaro), C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 6.1 (2018), p. 1
- ‘Sciences / Humans / Humanities: Dexter Masters’ The Accident and Being in the Nuclear Age’, Journals of Literature and Science 10.2 (2017), pp. 74-87
- ‘Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s Generation Anthropocene‘ (with Rachel Sykes et al, in Open Library of the Humanities Journal 3.1 (2017), online
- ‘The Futures of Nuclear Criticism’, Alluvium: 21st-Century Writing, 21st-Century Approaches 5.4, online
- ‘”That’s Going to Happen to Us. It is”: Threads and the Imagination of Nuclear Disaster on 1980s Television’, Journal of British Cinema and Television 45.1 (2013), pp. 71-92
- ‘Protect/Protest: British Nuclear Fiction of the 1980s’, The British Journal for the History of Science 45.4 (2012), pp. 653-69
- Journal of Literature and Science Review: ‘an excellent analysis’; ‘a fine article’; ‘Cordle skilfully outlines an area of British literary studies that has otherwise been overlooked’
- ‘”Do Not Leave Your Homes”: Containment Culture and Its Fallout in Judith Merril’s Shadow on the Hearth‘, Cultural Politics 4.3 (2008), pp. 337-50
- ‘In Dreams, in Imagination: Suspense, Anxiety and the Cold War in Tim O’Brien’s The Nuclear Age‘, Critical Survey 19.2 (2007), pp. 101-20
- ‘Introductions I and II: “Writing” and “Technologies”‘, Writing Technologies (2007), online.
- ‘Cultures of Terror: Nuclear Criticism During and Since the Cold War’, Literature Compass 3.6 (2006), pp. 1186-99
- ‘Changing of the Old Guard: Time Travel and Literary Technique in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut’, The Yearbook of English Studies 30 (2000), pp. 166-76
Academic editorial work
- Writing the Contemporary: Poetry and Postcards from UNESCO Cities of Literature (Trent Editions, 2019) – co-edited with Jo Dixon
- Special edition on the literature of the Anthropocene for C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 6.1 (2018)
- With Phil Leonard, I was founder and co-editor of the online journal Writing Technologies, which ran from 2007-2015.
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