Paul March‐Russell

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Paul March-Russell is a leading scholar in modernist and contemporary literature, with a particular focus on the intersections of science, technology, and culture. His research explores how literary modernism grappled with emergent technologies, most notably in his influential work on the figure of the robot and machine intelligence. In his widely-cited 2020 chapter, "Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot," March-Russell offers a groundbreaking analysis of modernist technophobia, using Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology to illuminate the period’s anxious negotiation between vitalistic humanism and the rise of artificial beings. This work has become essential reading for scholars examining the cultural prehistory of AI. Beyond this, his broader contributions to the study of science fiction, the short story, and post-war British fiction have shaped critical conversations in multiple fields. With a career marked by rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry, March-Russell’s scholarship continues to bridge literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science, making him a vital voice for students and researchers interested in how literature imagines—and is transformed by—technological change.