Tutor information
Angus McFadzean
Dr Angus McFadzean is the Programme Director of the Oxford University Summer School for Adults and teaches on international programmes at the Department for Continuing Education, specialising in British and American Literature and Film. He is the author of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of James Joyce’s Epiphanies: A Critical Edition, forthcoming from University Press of Florida (2024). He has published on James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon and Hollywood cinema and has taught widely on literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, specifically modernism and the works of Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf and WB Yeats.
Courses
Free speech remains a controversial topic in the present. But what are the risks and rewards of speaking freely? This in-person day event will survey the history of censorship and repression in literature from the 16th century to the present.
In a world of economic instability and social breakdown, dystopia has become the reigning form through which we imagine the future. This event will review four versions of dystopian fiction and consider how they reflect changes in Western society.