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Month: May 2017

Cultural Studies

Gaelic Satire and 18th Century Highland History

posted by Teri Williams May 29, 20174 min read2273 Views

The benefit of studying Gaelic poetry in conjunction with conventional documentary sources to obtain a fuller understanding of the past…

Palestine landscape
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

‘I Am My Language’

posted by Emma at EUP May 25, 20174 min read1642 Views

In May 2017, the Israeli Knesset passed the nation-state bill in its first round. This bill emphasizes Israel being Jewish…

Literary Theory

OLR 40th Anniversary – Jacques Derrida

posted by Rebecca Wojturska May 15, 20172 min read1983 Views

  Continuing our celebrations of OLR’s 40th Anniversary and its widespread impact, this month we are highlighting Jacques Derrida’s ‘Let…

Gender Studies

Unwomanly women? Gender and technology at the end of the nineteenth century

posted by Carla Hepburn May 15, 20176 min read2718 Views

By Lena Wånggren What is an ‘unwomanly’ woman? Or an ‘unsexed’ woman? At the end of the nineteenth century, both…

Spanish Erotic Cinema
Cultural History

Sex and Spanish Cinema from Screen to Academia

posted by Emma at EUP May 11, 20174 min read1965 Views

An extract from the introduction of Spanish Erotic Cinema, edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez If there is something that the various…

The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’

posted by Emma at EUP May 2, 20174 min read1858 Views

Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…

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