Christopher Webb is a writer and critic based in London. His work, which mostly focuses on contemporary fiction and internet culture, has featured in Aesthetica, British Journal of Photography, Literary Review, Review 31, and Times Literary Supplement.

In 2018, he completed his PhD at UCL. It was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His thesis was supervised by Julia Jordan and examined by Jon Day and Kaye Mitchell.

He was awarded a Foundation Grant by the Society of Authors in 2020.

He is the author of Useless Activity, which argues that a significant portion of British avant-garde writing from the 1960s through to the 1970s was shaped by the many emerging and often competing concerns about work and leisure. It was published by Liverpool University Press in 2022. The paperback edition was published in 2025.