Emily Horton

Emily Horton is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary world literature, specializing in trauma and affect theory, genre and popular fiction, and fictional explorations of globalization and transnationalism. Her monograph, Contemporary Crisis Fictions , was published in 2014, and she has also co-edited the following volumes: The 2010s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction , with Nick Bentley, Philip Tew and Nick Hubble (Bloomsbury,...See more

Emily Horton is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary world literature, specializing in trauma and affect theory, genre and popular fiction, and fictional explorations of globalization and transnationalism. Her monograph, Contemporary Crisis Fictions , was published in 2014, and she has also co-edited the following volumes: The 2010s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction , with Nick Bentley, Philip Tew and Nick Hubble (Bloomsbury, 2024); The 1980s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction , with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson (Bloomsbury, 2014); and Ali Smith , with Monica Germanà (Bloomsbury, 2013). See less