Callum McKean is a curator at the British Library working with literary archives and manuscripts from the post-war period to the present day. Since June 2021, he has led on the Library’s acquisition and research into the personal digital archives of writers, poets and other prominent individuals in contemporary public life.
Callum McKean is a curator at the British Library working with literary archives and manuscripts from the post-war period to the present day. Since June 2021, he has led on the Library’s acquisition and research into the personal digital archives of writers, poets and other prominent individuals in contemporary public life. He received his BA in English Literature from University College London and his MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where his work considered the role of technology in contemporary auto-fiction. He has been the editor for the Library’s English & Drama Blog since 2017.
