Dr Richard Bingham

Profile

I teach and research digital cultures with a focus on how cultural practices of representation and interpretation engage the complex structures and affordances of digital objects. I received my PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2020 following the completion of my dissertation, “Digital Natives: Imagining the Millennial in Twenty-First Century Fiction”. My current research explores how online communities of hackers reinterpret videogame narratives while recompiling and modifying game source code, and the broader implications such practices have for understanding the “meaning” of digital texts.

Teaching

In the 2024-25 academic year I am teaching:

• SML4006 Culture and Language
• LIB5203 Digital Culture and Society

Research

Publications

Bingham, Richard, ‘“My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel’, The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, ed. by Loïc Bourdeau and Christopher Lloyd (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) [in press]

Bingham, Richard, ‘The Master Clock’, Heterotopias 009 (2022), pp. 112-122, https://www.heterotopiaszine.com/009-2/ [accessed 12 February 2025]

Bingham, Richard, ‘Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman Turns’, Textual Practice, 36.2 (2022), pp. 454-472, doi:10.1080/0950236X.2022.2030120

Bingham, Richard, ‘The Disabled Body Under Surveillance Capitalism’, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 8.1 (2020), pp. 41-28, doi:10.16995/c21.1770

Bingham, Richard, ‘Identifying with Our Contemporaries’, Alluvium, 7.1 (2019), n. pag. doi:10.7766/alluvium.v7.03