Journal Articles
Iris Pearson, ‘Close Reading as Choice Reading: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves‘, forthcoming with Modernism/Modernity.
Iris Pearson & Joe Moshenska, eds. What is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024, creativecritical.net (2025).
Iris Pearson, ‘The Orange Tree and Postcritique in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos‘, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies, 2 (2023), 94-106.
Iris Pearson, ‘Moving Through Paris: The Discontinuous Forms of Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela and Luisa Futoransky’s De Pe a Pa‘, Latin American Literary Review, 48 (97) (2021).
Conference Presentations
‘Epiphany and Running Water: Kanai Mieko, Modernist Style and a Feeling of Mild Vertigo’, Modernist Studies in Asia Conference, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, June 2025.
‘Middle Feelings’, University of Tokyo, April 2025.
‘B. S. Johnson’s Ephemeral Typography’. British Association of Modernist Studies, Leeds, June 2024.
‘Criticism in the Middle: Readerly Affect and Experimental Form’, Modern/Contemporary Research Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2024.
‘The Critic and Constant Excess: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves‘. New Work in Modernist Studies 13, Liverpool, December 2023.
‘Imagining at the End: Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon‘, A Symposium on Literatures of Ending, Contemporary Literary Cultures Research Group, University of Worcester, November 2023.
‘The Short Story and Strange Tone’, Oxford Centre for Comparative Criticism & Translation, October 2023.
‘Experimental Focalisation and Readerly Affect in the Novels of Angela Carter’, British Association for Contemporary Literature Studies, University of Birmingham, September 2023.
‘It Could Go Like This / Muriel Spark’s Fantastic Hesitation’. Session: ‘Reading with Doubt’, Oxford English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, June 2023.
‘Muriel Spark and the Future Tense’. ‘DPhil Roundtable: Literature and the Future’, Modern/Contemporary Research Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2023.
‘Form and Readerly Affect: Muriel Spark’s Crime Fictions’. Session: ‘Anti-historicism’ at American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, March 2023.
‘Form and Repulsive Readerly Affect in Late Twentieth-Century Experimental Novels’. New Work in Modernist Studies 12, University of Loughborough, December 2022.
‘Listening to Know in Anthony Burgess’s Experimental Novels’. Modern/Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum, University of Oxford, November 2022.
‘Don’t Read B.S. Johnson: Experimental Spaces and Rebarbative Readerly Affect’. Experimental Writing in English, 1945-2000, Brussels, September 2022.
‘Suspended Interiors (and Suspended History) in Second World War Novels’. Oxford English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, June 2021.
Outreach Publications
”Modern Love’ by George Meredith’, Ten-Minute Book Club, University of Oxford, October 2022.