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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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5 Contemporary Comedies by Working-Class Women You Need to Watch

by Laura Minor Following the success of several working-class women who have created original comedy series in the UK, such as Carla Lane, Victoria Wood, Kay Mellor, and Caroline Aherne, the 2010s (and onwards) have seen an increase in working-class…

Edinburgh University Press
April 11, 2023

The Writer as Memory Activist

5 Contemporary Comedies by Working-Class Women You Need to Watch

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons