Biography
Sebastian “Bas” Groes is a writer, teacher, and scholar specialising in contemporary culture. He currently serves as Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. He is also Director of the Digital Futures Lab, which hosts several of Groes’ digital and computational projects.
Groes began his tenure at the University of Wolverhampton in January 2018. In addition to his professorship, he leads several significant research initiatives.
Leading research initiatives
Computational Literary Studies UK
The Memory Network
Novel Perceptions
Big Bookshare
UN/REAL: Anglo-Japanese Perspectives on Digital Inequality
Write in the Head
Publications
Groes has an extensive publication record, authoring and editing over ten academic books. Works include The Making of London (2011), an analysis of London’s portrayal in contemporary literature; British Fictions of the Sixties (2016), a study of the literary landscape during the 1960s; and an edited volume exploring modern understandings of memory, Memory in the Twenty-First Century (2016).
His articles, reviews, and fiction have appeared in prominent outlets such as The Guardian, The Londonist, and BBC News. He has also collaborated with BBC Arts on the “Novels That Shaped Our World” engagement project.
His two most recent books are Right in the Head (2023), a stroke memoir that delves into the relationship between humans and their brains, and Writing Under Fire (2024), an edited collection with writing from Ukraine and the UK.
Current work
He is currently working on four books:
The Novel Perceptions monograph
A book on digital inequality across cultures
Posthuman Plunder
A book with literary reflections on technological unemployment