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MARTIN GOODHEAD is an English Literature Phd whose research details with contemporary
representations of British working-class subjectivity within post-2008 fiction with reference to hauntology
and emergent political imaginaries along with existent practices. He previously completed an MA in
English at Keele, graduating in 2018/19 with a thesis on Williamsian working-class Residual and Emergent
practices in reference to Mark Fisher’s Hauntology within the novels of Martin Amis, Lisa Blower and
Anthony Cartwright, having previously gained degrees from Oxford and Glasgow in Literature (MA) and
Film Journalism (MLitt) respectively and then worked in film journalism, e-publishing in visual arts,
teaching and frontline projects work around training and arts in the homelessness-sector. Martin has
worked as a Peer Review Liaison and Editor for Under Construction@Keele, before taking over as Editor-
in-Chief in June 2019, having previously co-edited Alluvium Journal’s ‘The Global Contemporary: Ecologies
of Gender and Class within the Combined and Uneven Anthropocene’ June 2019 issue. He also serves on
Keele’s Humanities and Social Science Work in Progress Research Seminar Group, an active member of
Keele’s Geopoetics collective Dawdlers, Postgraduate Rep for Keele’s Postgraduate Community and
Student Rep on Keele’s HUMSS Postgraduate Research Committee. He co-organized the 2018 and 2019
HUMSS Postgraduate Conferences, and lead-organized November 2018’s ‘Placing Class within the
Contemporary’ interdisciplinary Conference at Keele.
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