Dr. Denis Topalović

Dr Denis Topalović is Isaac Newton Trust Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College. He obtained his D.Phil 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 D.Phil 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) for best doctoral dissertation.