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Andrew Pepper
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undergraduate
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Andrew Pepper

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Andrew Pepper

Professor

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Global crime fiction\ Contemporary US fiction\ US crime fiction\ Contemporary fiction and violence\ Suspense, spy, thriller, espionage fiction

1996 …Research output 2000: 1Research output 2003: 1Research output 2005: 3Research output 2006: 2Research output 2007: 1Research output 2008: 1Research output 2010: 4Research output 2011: 4Research output 2013: 1Projects 2014: 1Research output 2015: 1Research output 2016: 3Projects 2017: 1Research output 2017: 1Projects 2018: 1Research output 2018: 1Research output 2019: 2Research output 2020: 6Research output 2022: 2Research output 2023: 3Research output 2024: 22024

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Personal profile

Interests

My research and teaching interests lie mainly in the areas of transnatrional crime fiction, spy/espionage fiction and contemporary fiction that examines security and policing issues. I have recently published a monograph, Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (Oxford, 2016), that examines the emergence from the 1720s onwards of a particular strain of politically-minded crime fiction as a transnational phenomenon. A book I co-edited with David Schmid (Buffalo), Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime (Palgrave, 2016) expands and extends this focus in the contemporary era. I am also the author of five crime novels set in London between the 1820s and 1840s including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011). I have recently

Particulars

I am the author of Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-edited of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). I am the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (Edinbugh, 2000) and co-author of American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (Edinburgh, 2005). I have written five historical crime novels set in London in the 1820, 1830s and 1840s including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011) all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Research Statement

My current research explores the relationship between crime, capitalism, security and race and crime fiction as a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon.

I could supervise doctoral students interested in working in the following areas or fields: twentieth- and twenty-first century U.S literature, crime fiction written in English from any era and crime fiction in translation from anywhere in the world, American cultural studies.

Teaching

I convene and teach on our first year module, Introduction to Contemporary Fiction, and our second year module, Introduction to American Writing. My third year option, Contemporary U.S. Crime Fiction: The Police, the State, the Globe, runs in the first semester and focuses on four themes: the 'war on drugs' and the US-Mexico Border; policing the city; public-private; and outsiders/social bandits. Exemplary texts include The Wire (season 3), James Sallis's Drive, Don Winslow's The Cartel, and Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. At MA level I offer materials that consider the relationship between violence, affect and the workplace in contemporary genre fiction.

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Projects

Baschiera, S. (PI), Ell, P. S. (CoI), Jeannerod, D. (CoI) & Pepper, A. (CoI)

14/05/2018 → 31/10/2021

Project: Research

Pepper, A. (PI) & Jeannerod, D. (CoI)

15/02/2017 → 30/04/2019

Project: Research - ### R1368MLA: Visualising European Crime Fiction: New Digital Tools and Approaches to the Study of Transnational Popular Culture

Jeannerod, D. (PI), Pagello, F. (CoI) & Pepper, A. (CoI)

08/01/2014 → 22/04/2015

Project: Research

Research output

Pepper, A., Sept 2024, In: Crime Fiction Studies. 5, 2, p. 166-182 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

File

102 Downloads (Pure) - ### Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police

Pepper, A., 15 Feb 2024, In: American Literary History Online Review. 36, 1, p. 368-370 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Open Access - ### Contemporary European crime fiction: representing history and politics

Dall'Asta, M. (Editor), Migozzi, J. (Editor), Pagello, F. (Editor) & Pepper, A. (Editor), 21 Apr 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 309 p. (Crime Files)

Research output: Book/Report › Edited book › peer-review

Pepper, A., 07 Oct 2023, The Cambridge companion to the twentieth-century American novel and politics. Santin, B. M. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 127-141

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access

File

148 Downloads (Pure) - ### Introduction

Dall'Asta, M., Migozzi, J., Pagello, F. & Pepper, A., 21 Apr 2023, Contemporary European crime fiction: representing history and politics. Dall'Asta, M., Migozzi, J., Pagello, F. & Pepper, A. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-21 (Crime Files).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access

File

2 Citations (Scopus)

65 Downloads (Pure)

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Prizes

Pepper, A. (Recipient), Allan, J. (Recipient), Gulddal, J. (Recipient) & King, S. (Recipient), 01 Jun 2020

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Activities

Pepper, A. (Participant)

28 Jun 2024

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - ### Trauma and Testimony in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Pepper, A. (Examiner)

22 Apr 2024

Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination - ### American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting (2024)

Pepper, A. (Participant)

15 Mar 2024 → 17 Mar 2024

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - ### Salton Sea Tales & Speculative Fiction

Pepper, A. (Examiner)

08 Jan 2024

Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination - ### MA in Crime Fiction

Pepper, A. (Examiner)

01 Aug 2023 → 01 Jul 2026

Activity: Examination types › PGT external examination

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Press/Media

Pepper, A.

23/07/2006

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities