Beyond the Books - chats with researchers in literatures, languages and cultures

Beyond the Books is a podcast from the School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures (LLC) at the University of Edinburgh that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at research and the people who make it happen. This episode features David Farrier, a Senior Lecturer in English Literature, and a researcher in the environmental humanities. David is the author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, a brand new book on the deep future, and was the first member of the LLC community to have a virtual book launch.

This episode comes with a trigger warning at 0.44, so please take care when listening.

#LLCBeyondtheBooks: https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/research/beyond-the-books

of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) that gives you a behind-the-scenes

look at research and the people who make it happen. In this first episode, Ellen

Davis-Walker (LLC's Web and Communications Postgraduate Intern 2019/20) sits down with

Rachel Chung, a third year PhD candidate in English Literature, to talk about Rachel’s

journey from Applied Maths graduate with a masters in narrative medicine, to her

current research on gender, violence, and Shakespeare (especially as performed

by all-women casts).

(00:53-01:05), so please take care when listening. You can read a transcript of

the conversation on our website.

#LLCbeyondthebooks

www.llc.ed.ac.uk/research/beyond-the-books

of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) that

gives you a behind-the-scenes look at research and the people who make it

happen. The podcast is researched, curated, edited and presented by Ellen Davis-Walker, a PhD student in French and Francophone Studies, and LLC's Web and Communications Postgraduate Intern 2019/20. Every episode, Ellen sits down with a guest from LLC - either a research student or staff member - to find out more about their academic journey, and how their research has changed their view of the world. When we move beyond the books, what do we have in common, and what can we learn in the process? Enjoy our trailer and stay tuned.

#LLCbeyondthebooks

www.llc.ed.ac.uk/research/beyond-the-books