School of English

Todd McEwen

Lecturer  
Phone: 01227 827290 Office: NC20
Email: t.w.mcewen@kent.ac.uk  
Interests

Todd McEwen was born in California and graduated from Columbia University in New York, where he studied mediaeval and Victorian English Literature. He worked in broadcasting, theatre and the rare book trade in California and New York before coming to Britain. He published his first novel, Fisher’s Hornpipe, in 1983. He has since published three further novels, McX: A Romance of the Dour, Arithmetic, and Who Sleeps with Katz. He worked as an editor at Granta magazine and has been one of its most frequent contributors. He has held numerous writers’ residencies and other teaching posts in the US and the UK. His interests also include 18th century fiction, modernism, Japanese literature, South American literature, the writers Alejo Carpentier, Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard, and violin music.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

Selected Publications

Novels and stories :

  • Who Sleeps with Katz, Granta Books, 2003
  • Arithmetic, Jonathan Cape, 1998
  • Cary Grant’s Suit in Granta 94 (Summer 2006)
  • Now a Major Motion Picture in Granta 98 (Summer 2007)

School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX

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Last Updated: 12/05/2011