Author: Liam J. L. Knight

Liam J. L. Knight is a third-year English Literature PhD student at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the manifestation of what we would today recognise as post-truth anxieties in the literary dystopias of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He locates these anxieties in the ‘endotexts’ (additional fictional texts contained by works of fiction) of the dystopian genre and draws on theories of transtextuality, metafiction, and reader response to account for how post-truth functions in fictional worlds, and how fictional examples of post-truth can help readers to combat the intensified post-truth condition of the twenty-first century. He is a co-organiser of the ‘Pandemic Perspectives’ collective and can be found posting video essays, book reviews, and educational content on his YouTube channel, ‘DystopiaJunkie’.