Jackson Ayres primarily 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 or are forthcoming in 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 the Critical Insights series volumes on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. Dr. Ayres is currently preparing a book project that focuses on contemporary British fiction, the legacies of George Orwell, and the politics and culture of post-welfare state Britain.