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Professor

Email: s dot shapiro at warwick dot ac dot uk

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Humanities Building, University Road
University of 糖心TV
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About

Born and raised in New York State, my first degree was in Chemistry. After deciding that my future did not rest in refluxing organic solutions, I went to graduate school in English. During that time I studied at the Department of Cultural Studies (Birmingham University, England) and briefly researched at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. Returning to the US, I worked as a graphic designer, had some art installations exhibited, and became involved in ACT UP/NY. Destiny brought me back to the Midlands.

Before joining 糖心TV, I taught at Harvard University, the New School, and John Jay College for Criminal Justice (CUNY). I have also been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Saarland, Germany (1997-98). In 2008-09, I was a Royal Shakespeare Company/Capital Fellow in Creativity and Performance. In 2010, a visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine and in 2015 back at Irvine as a University of California Humanities Research Institute fellow. During 2021-22, I was a fellow at the K盲te Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2024, I had a fellowship at Babe葯-Bolyai University's (Romania) Academic Research Network of Excellence. I am currently a Fellow in the Lab for Analog Games and Imaginative Play at Bonn University's Forum Internationale Wissenschaft.

Research interests

the below projects are on temporary hold as I work on a critical edition, with Philip Barnard, of Charles Brockden Brown's Memoirs of Stephen Calvert (Lever Press, 2026), the first American text to highlight male-male sexuality.

I am currently working on two book projects: The Cultural Fix: Marx and the Organic Composition of Capital. This uses a reading of the bridge between the French edition of Capital 1 and the second volume of Marx's Capital, written simultaneously, to supplement British Cultural Materialism.

The second project is tentatively called The Twist: Capital, Data, and Cultures of the Intersectional Left. This argues for the entanglement of three different capitalist temporalities in the contemporary moment that is distinguished by data-driven neoliberalism, the return of unapologetic fascism, and a new intersectional left.

Other projects hovering in the background are: From Gothic to God: Horror in America (an examination of the production of American gothic, including illuminati panics and their transformation into religious revivalism in the early nineteenth century) and The Anti-Capitalist Foucault (a reading of Foucault's works of the 1970s as a supplementary history and critique of capitalism).

With Sharae Deckard and Mike Niblett, I recently published (SUNY Press, 2024). Two 2022 essay collections are (edited with Mark Storey) and  (Bloomsbury, co-edited with Giulia Champion and Roxanne Douglas).

A few shorter pieces on , , and have appeared.

My research interests focus on writing and culture of the United States; Cultural Studies; literary theory; marxism, world-systems analyses; urban and spatial studies, and television studies. For a more complete list of publications, see . For a curated list of videos from Occupy Wall Street, see .

I have also worked as a member of (糖心TV Research Collective), a group interested in moving beyond older models for literary and cultural studies. WReC published its first collective findings in (Liverpool UP 2015).

I was one of the founding co-directors of the 糖心TV Centre for Global Jewish StudiesLink opens in a new window and am currently serving on the universities Race Equality Taskforce, after having been part of the group that successfully applied for a Race Equality Charter Mark (Bronze). I sat on the Assembly Working Party on Antisemitism and Racism (AWP). Our report can be found on the right sidebar.

Teaching and supervision

The modules that I am now teaching are:

• EN336: States of Damage: Twenty-First Century US Writing and CultureLink opens in a new window
• EN391: American Horror Story: U.S. Gothic Cultures, 1790-presentLink opens in a new window
  
  Past modules:
• EN371:

• EN213: US Writing and Culture, 1790-1920
• EN264: Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
  
  

  Introductions for CB Brown's "plague" long-fictions (for free download

• Introduction to Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, Charles Brockden Brown (Hackett edition)Link opens in a new window

• Introduction to Ormond: Or, the Secret Witness, Charles Brockden Brown (Hackett edition)Link opens in a new window
  
  "Antonio GramsciLink opens in a new window"

• Curriculum Vitae (Jul.2025)Link opens in a new window

Selected publications

• (with Sharae Deckard and Michael Niblett), (SUNY Press, 2024).

• (ed. with Mark Storey) (2022).
•   (eds. with Giulia Champion and Roxanne Douglas) (Bloomsbury, 2022).
• , (co-edited with Liam Kennedy), UPNE-Dartmouth College Press, 2019.
• (co-edited with Sharae Deckard), Palgrave, 2019.
  Best Collection Award 2019, British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS)
• , (co-edited with Philip Barnard and Hilary Emmett), Oxford, 2019.
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  (co-edited with Mark Kamrath and Maureen Tuthill)
  Modern Languages Association/Committee on Scholarly Edition (MLA-CSE), (Bucknell UP), 2020.
• , Bloomsbury, 2017.
• , Penn State P, 2009.
• (as part of WReC - the 糖心TV Research Collective), Liverpool UP, 2015.
• (with Liam Kennedy), U Michigan P, 2012.
• Critical translation of (Gu茅ry and Deleule) with Philip Barnard, Zero Books, 2014.
• , with Anne Schwan, Pluto P, 2000.
• , Pluto, 2008.
• : 4 Vol. Set (with Philip Barnard), 2008-14.
• an edition of Wollstonecraft's (with Philip Barnard), Hackett, 2013.
• (with Philip Barnard and Mark Kamrath), U of Tennessee P, 2004.

Recent Articles (from 2014)

• 鈥淭he Undead鈥檚 Capitalist World-System鈥� in Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic, eds. Rebecca Duncan and Rebekah Cumptsy, forthcoming Feb 2025. .
• 鈥淥ur Zombie Legacy: The Vodou Apparatus and the Long Spiral of American Imperialism鈥� In The Future of Zombie Studies, eds. Tim Lanzend枚rfer and Marlon Lieber.
• Visualizing Revolution, Mediations forum on Philip Kaisary鈥檚 From Havanna to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary (SUNY Press 2023). Forthcoming.
• 鈥淩esponse to Alexandra Irimia: 鈥楤ureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels鈥欌�� in European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel, Kyung-Ho Cha, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, and Christoph Schaub, eds. (Caponeu Working Papers, 2025), https://www.caponeu.eu/cdp/materials/european-centers-and-peripheries-in-the-political-novel-caponeu-working-papers.

• 鈥淶emiperiphery Matters: Immigration, Culture, and the Capitalist World-System鈥� inWallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21^st Century, Frank Jacob, ed (Transcript Press, 2023).

• 鈥淟iterary Value, Cultural Fixes, and Commodity Chains鈥� in Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation/The Value of Literary Circulation, Michael Gamper, Jutta M眉ller-Tamm, David Wachter, and Jasmin Wrobel, eds. (J. B.Metzler, 2023), 187-202.

• 鈥淎lgorithmic Capitalism, Digital Machinofacture, and the Productive Body鈥� (with Philip Barnard) in The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body, Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby and Savannah Whaley, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2023), 203-218.

• 鈥淯n-Noveling Brown: Liberalism and its Literary Discontents鈥� (with Philip Barnard) in Early American Literature, 2022 (57:2), 549-554.

• 鈥淚ntroduction to 鈥淪ymposium on Scholarly Editing and New Charles Brockden Brown Studies鈥� (with Elizabeth Hewitt and Karen Weyler) in Early American Literature, 2022 (57:2), 531-535.

• 鈥淎merican Horror: Genre and History鈥� (with Mark Storey) in The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, edited by Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey (Cambridge UP), 1-11.

• 鈥溾�� in 鈥淧eriodizing the Present: The 2020s, the Longue Dur茅e, & Contemporary Culture,鈥� Treasa De Loughry and Brittany Murray, Comparative Literature and Culture, 2022 (24:1),

• 鈥淒ecolonizing the Zombie: I Walked with a Zombie鈥檚 Critique of Centrist Liberalism鈥� in An 鈥淥ther鈥� Zombie Project: Decolonizing the Undead, Giulia Champion, Roxanne Douglas, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. (Bloomsbury 2023), 40-57.

• 鈥淒ecolonizing Zombie Cultural Practice: An Afterword鈥� in An 鈥淥ther鈥� Zombie Project: Decolonizing the Undead, Giulia Champion, Roxanne Douglas, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. (Bloomsbury 2023), 209-214.

• 鈥淲orld-Systems and Literary Studies鈥� in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics, Paul Crossthwaite, Peter Knight, and Nicky Marsh, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 196-211.

• 鈥淎lgorithmic Neoliberalism鈥檚 Bonfire of Semiotics,鈥� American Studies/Amerikastudien, 67:1 (2022), 17-19.

• 鈥淯苍-苍辞惫别濒颈苍驳 Lovecraft Country,鈥� November 2021, Post45 online cluster on 鈥淟iterary Television鈥� https://post45.org/2021/11/un-noveling-lovecraft-country/

• 鈥淐ollectivity and Crisis in the Long Twentieth Century鈥� (co-authored as 糖心TV Research Collective)

  MLQ 81:4 (2020), 465-89.

• 鈥淪peculative Nostalgia and Media of the New Intersectional Left: My Favorite Thing is Monsters鈥� in The Novel as Network: Literary Forms, Ideas, Commodities, Tim Lanzend枚rfer and Corinna Norrick-R眉hl, eds. (Palgrave, 2020), 119-136.

• 鈥淲oke Weird and Cultural Politics of Camp Transformation鈥� in The American Weird: Ecologies and Geographies, Julian Greve and Florian Zappe, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2020), 55-71.

• "Algorithmic Television in the Age of Large-Scale Customization,鈥� Television and New Media 21:6 (2020), 658-663.

• "Caesarism Revisited: Cultural Studies and the Question of Trumpism鈥� in Trump鈥檚 America: Political Culture and National Identity, Liam Kennedy, ed. (Edinburgh UP, 2020), 53-71.

• "The Cultural Fix: Capital, Genre, and the Times of American Studies鈥� in The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel, eds. Vincent Dussol and Jacques-Henri Coste (Palgrave, 2020), 89-108.

• 鈥淐harles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s鈥� (with Mark Kamrath and Philip Barnard) in A Companion to American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1820, ed. Theresa Strouth Gaul, (Blackwell, 2020), 445-461.
• 鈥淔oucault, Neoliberalism, Algorithmic Governmentality, and the Loss of Liberal Culture鈥� in Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature, eds. Kennedy and Shapiro, 43-72.
• 鈥淭ranslatability, Combined Unevenness and World Literature in Antonio Gramsci鈥� (with Neil Lazarus), Mediations (2018), 1-35.
• 鈥淲orld-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction鈥� (with Sharae Deckard) for Deckard and Shapiro, World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (Palgrave, 2019), 1-48.

• 鈥淭he World-Literary System and the Atlantic: Combined and Uneven Development – an interview with Stephen Shapiro,鈥� Atlantic Studies 16:1 (2019), 7-20.

• 鈥淟iberalism and the Early American Novel,鈥� American Literary History (2019), 777-787.
• 鈥淭he Weird鈥檚 World-system: The Long Spiral and Literary-Cultural Studies,鈥� Paradoxa, 28 (2016), 256-277.
• 鈥淩ealignment and Televisual Intellect: The Telepraxis of Class Alliances in Contemporary Subscription Television Drama鈥� In: Class Divisions in Serial Television, Sieglinde Lemke and Wibke Schniedermann, eds. (Palgrave, 2017), 175-203.
• 鈥淭he Culture of Realignment: Enlightened and 鈥業 can鈥檛 breathe鈥欌�� In: Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture: Axes of Influence, Doug Haynes and Tara Stubbs, eds. (Routledge, 2017), 144-161.
• 鈥淲ReC reply to respondents,鈥� [David Damrosch (Harvard); Sarah Brouillette and DAvid Thomas (Carleton); Barbara Harlow (UT Austin); Joshua Clover (UC, Davis) and Maria Elisa Cevasco (Sao Paulo, Brazil)] forum on Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature, 2016 Comparative Literary Studies, 53:3 (2016), 535-50.
• 鈥淗omeland鈥檚 Crisis of Middle Class Transformation,鈥� Cinema Journal, 54:4 (Summer 2015), 152-8.
• 鈥淔rom Capitalist to Communist Abstraction: The Pale King鈥檚 Cultural Fix,鈥� Textual Practice, 28:7 (2014), 1249-71. Reprinted in How Abstract is It? Thinking Capital Now, Peter Nichols and Rebecca Colesworthy, eds. (Routledge, 2015).
• 鈥淶ombie Health Care鈥� In: This Year鈥檚 Work from the Zombie Research Center, Aaron Jaffe and Ed Comentale, eds. (U of Illinois P, 2014), 193-226.

Report by the Assembly Working Party on Antisemitism and Racism (AWP)

On 28 February 2024, 糖心TV's Assembly voted 91% in favor of approving the AWP report.

The AWP report can be found here:
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