Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Amherst College in English and Theater & Dance. Prior to joining NTU, he taught in the Writing Program at NYU Abu Dhabi where he was also Associate Director of the Writing Center. Riordan was a 2018 Writing Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2017 he co-founded the Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) research network.

His research examines shifting understandings of global time and space in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he currently is working on a literary and cultural history of the around-the-world tour. In addition to his scholarly work, Riordan is a Resident Artist in the New York–based company Theater Mitu.

Research Interests

• Modernism
• Theater and Performance
• Theory
• Comparative and World Literatures
• Cinema

Current Grants

• Singapore's Joseph Conrad: A Study in Global Modernism