# Max Saunders

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'''Max Saunders''' (born 24 June 1957) is a British academic and writer specialising in modern literature. He is the author of ''Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Saunders, Max|title=Imagined futures writing, science and modernity in the To-day and To-morrow book series, 1923-31|year=2019|isbn=978-0-19-188048-3|edition=First|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|oclc=1128973224}}</ref> ''Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Saunders, Max.|title=Ford Madox Ford : a dual life|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-966834-2|location=Oxford|oclc=819516103}}</ref> and ''Self Impression: Life-Writing, [Autobiografiction](/source/Autobiografiction), and the Forms of Modern Literature''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Saunders, Max.|title=Self impression : life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-965769-8|location=Oxford|oclc=473444457}}</ref> He is the editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Ford’s ''The Good Soldier'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939|title=The good soldier : a tale of passion|others=Saunders, Max|isbn=978-0-19-958594-6|edition=New|location=Oxford|oclc=811322504|date=2012-09-06}}</ref> and of four volumes of Ford Madox Ford’s writing including ''Some Do Not …'', the first book for Ford’s First World War tetralogy Parade’s End for Carcanet Press.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.|title=Parade's end|date=2010–2011|publisher=Carcanet|isbn=978-1-84777-863-5|location=Manchester|oclc=823377957}}</ref>
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From 2014 to 2019 Saunders led the Ego-Media Project:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ego-media.org/|title=Ego Media Project|website=Ego Media|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref> a collaborative interdisciplinary project on life writing and the digital age, based in the King's College London Centre for Life-Writing Research,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-for-life-writing-research|title=Centre for Life Writing Research|website=www.kcl.ac.uk|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref> and funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results|title=ERC FUNDED PROJECTS|website=ERC: European Research Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-12|archive-date=2021-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113223931/https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Saunders was educated at [Sevenoaks School](/source/Sevenoaks_School) in Kent, and won an entrance scholarship to [Queens' College, Cambridge](/source/Queens'_College%2C_Cambridge). After receiving a master's degree from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), he returned to Cambridge, where he took his PhD under the supervision of [Frank Kermode](/source/Frank_Kermode) and [Tony Tanner](/source/Tony_Tanner_(scholar)). He was a research fellow and then college lecturer at [Selwyn College, Cambridge](/source/Selwyn_College%2C_Cambridge), before moving to [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London) in 1989, teaching modern English, European, and American literature. He became professor of English in 2000, co-director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research in 2007, and director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at King's College, London from 2012 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-max-saunders|title=Professor Max Saunders|website=www.kcl.ac.uk|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref> In 2007, he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for his work on the To-Day and To-Morrow book series.<ref>''The Report of the Leverhulme Trustees 2007'' (London, The Leverhulme Trust, 2008) p. 49. Available from<nowiki/>https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/sites/default/files/AR2007.pdf retrieved 2020-01-12.</ref>

Saunders became interdisciplinary professor of modern literature and culture at the [University of Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham) in September 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/saunders-max.aspx|title=Professor Max Saunders - Department of English Literature - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref>

He is the stepson of the painter [Alfred Cohen](/source/Alfred_Cohen) (1920-2001), and co-edited (with Sarah MacDougall) the book: ''Alfred Cohen -- An American Artist in Europe: Between Figuration and Abstraction'' (London: Ben Uri Exhibitions /Wighton: The Alfred Cohen Art Foundation, 2020)

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