Kirsty Crosbie

Joined: September 30, 2019
Articles: 54

Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean

I would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...

July 26, 2024
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean

Literary Studies

Reading Joyce

2022 marks a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s novel Ulysses in full. What better time to think about reading Joyce? A hundred years of readers and readings! Of course, that’s not the whole picture. Ulysses is also…

Kirsty Crosbie
October 20, 2022

Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

5 places where modernism survived

Adapting or recasting the formal experiments of their modernist forebears...Here is a brief tour of five places where modernism survived well into the second half of the twentieth century.

Kirsty Crosbie
October 10, 2022

Classics and Ancient History, Cultural History, History

**Xenophon’s Anabasis in 16 Pictures**

This selection of sixteen photographs together with the accompanying descriptions by Xenophon aim to provide a sense of the travel experience from the journey’s beginning at Sardis to the army’s famous sighting of the Black Sea from the mountains south of modern Trabzon.

Kirsty Crosbie
October 5, 2022

Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship

This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.

Kirsty Crosbie
September 9, 2022

Literary Studies

Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry

The work and life of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) were, in Bill Clinton’s words, a gift to the world: ‘His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives.’

Kirsty Crosbie
September 8, 2022

Literary Studies

Q&A with Beth Rigel Daugherty

Q&A with EUP author Beth Rigel Daugherty about her research project and two new books about the life and works of Viginia Woolf

Kirsty Crosbie
August 17, 2022

Literary Studies, Politics

All Stories Run on Two Tracks:What Formalism Offers Presentism

EUP author Katherine Voyles discusses the process around writing a double review for the Victoriographies Journal.

Kirsty Crosbie
August 10, 2022

Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

Why You Should Read Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’

What Scottish play, published in 1725, reached over 100 printings by 1800, was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than forty paintings, more than ‘from the entire works of Chaucer, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, or Fielding’ (R. Altick, Paintings from Books), and was performed by amateur companies throughout Scotland as late as the end of the 19th century?

Kirsty Crosbie
July 1, 2022

Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Post 19th Century Literary Studies

How I came to make an edition of an imaginary musical text

Allan Ramsay and his 1720s Edinburgh adventure in ballad opera

Kirsty Crosbie
July 1, 2022

Classics and Ancient History

Q&A with Amy Lather

Melissa Mueller and Lilah Grace Canevaro interview Amy Lather, author of Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, the first book to publish in the new Ancient Cultures, New Materialism series.

Kirsty Crosbie
June 16, 2022