Jackson Ayres teaches classes in modern and contemporary British literature, but also offers courses in film studies and comics studies. His teaching and research interests include British modernism, the twentieth-century British novel, British literature and culture after 1945, graphic literatures and popular culture. He is the author of the book Alan Moore: A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2021), and his articles and essays have appeared in journals including Literature/Film Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Inks, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. He has also contributed essays to several edited collections, including most recently Science Fiction and the Historical Novel (Liverpool UP, 2024) and the forthcoming MLAs Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell. Dr. Ayres is currently preparing a book project on contemporary British fiction that attends to the legacies of George Orwell alongside representations of the welfare state.