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A Q&A with the editors of Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion
Read moreby Alexia L. Bowler and Adele Jones Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion (2023) is the first collection of scholarly […]
Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self: Q&A with the author
by Roberta Kwan Tell us a bit about your book. My book is about human knowing, or more precisely, humans as knowers. How can we know and be known? What prevents us from knowing? How should we know? The book…
Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare – Q&A with the author
by Joan Lord Hall What inspired you to research eros in Shakespeare’s work? Knowing that I had taught Shakespeare for about 40 years and had authored several guides to his play, a friend provocatively asked me “Why don’t you write…
Abstraction for all? Thoughts from the author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity
by Jeff Wallace When you’ve written something exploratory, it can take a little while to work out what it is that you’ve done. This blog about my new book Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman is written from…
Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author
by Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of the human body across Samuel Beckett’s work. Such attention to the body and the varied forms it takes—often integrated with…
Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay
by Mario Aquilina and Nicole B. Wallack On 29 March 2023, two of the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, Mario Aquilina (The University of Malta) and Nicole B. Wallack (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) led a roundtable with…
Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC
By the editors of IJHAC IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities has been published since 1989, initially under the name History and Computing. It is one of the longest running journals in digital humanities. Recently, the journal broadened its thematic scope and…
The Persistence of Victorian Middle Class Fictions
by Albert Pionke The US has just emerged from a mid-term election cycle. In the UK, calls for a general election grow ever louder. Politicians, pundits, and pollsters alike cite the discontent of the middle class with, depending upon one’s ideological predilections,…
Five things you (probably) didn’t know about crossroads
Bill Angus tells us five things you (probably) didn't know about crossroads.
Theologies of Reading
By Laura McCormick Kilbride, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, and Simone Kotva Is reading a theological activity? This is a question which only invites further questions. How a person responds to it will reveal as much about their presuppositions and their training…