Dr Denis Topalović
Biography
Dr Denis Topalović is Isaac Newton Trust Fellow in English at 鶹Ƶ. He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2024, where he was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Clarendon Fund, and Magdalen College. His DPhil thesis, Untimely Forms: Late Modernism, War, Essayistic Form, explored the emergence across twentieth-century Europe of a literary mode he calls ‘long-form essayism’, focusing on works by British, Italian, and German authors.
His current research seeks to understand how a widespread interest in ideas and practices of 'attention' shaped the literary culture of the early- to mid-twentieth century. He received several prizes and awards for his research, including the Charles Bernheimer Prize (American Comparative Literature Association) and Swapna Dev Memorial Prize (University of Oxford).
Degrees
D.Phil in English, University of Oxford (2024)
MLitt in English Literature: Modernities, University of Glasgow (2020)
MA (Hons) in English and Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow (2019)
Research interests
Modernism
Attention Studies
Essay Studies
Comparative Literature
War Writing
Film
Awards and Prizes
Charles Bernheimer Prize (2025): awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative literature.
Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize (2024): awarded by the University of Oxford for the best doctoral thesis in English literature.