James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral researcher (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. His current project (2021–24) is Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918.

James is a British-born literary scholar of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His recent work is in literary age and aging studies, in particular fictions of radical life extension. He holds further interests in the gothic, sensation fiction, and game studies. His work has been published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, Wilkie Collins in Context (Cambridge UP) and Gothic Dreams and Nightmares (Manchester UP) among other places. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2024; a second monograph, based on his current work, is due with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025.

In addition to teaching experience at two members of the Russell Group of UK universities, James has a diverse history of academic service, and experience of gaining competitive grant funding from various sources.