New Suburban Stories

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (Palgrave, 2010).

Lawrence Phillips is Head of Regent's American College and Professor of English and Cultural Criticism at Regent's University London, UK. His recent publications include London Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the City (2006) and, as co-editor, Angela Carter: New Critical Readings (2012).

Timotheus Vermeulen is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo, where he teaches and writes on media and cultural theory and aesthetics. He is also an art critic. His latest book, Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen, is to be published in 2026.

Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK. His previous books include The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue.