Critical Attitudes

A conversation with Dr Chloé Ashbridge (University of Newcastle). Topics discussed include completing a PhD during the Covid-19 pandemic; writing about the literature of Northern England; and educational/pedagogical research.

A conversation with Professor Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) about his career and most recent research, including his forthcoming books on petition, seriousness, and work. Recorded March 2021.

A conversation with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham) about her most recent book, Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees, her career, and debates and urgent anxieties about statelessness.

A conversation with Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham) about Shakespeare studies, dramatic performance, book history, and scholarly  editing. 

A conversation with Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham) about  cultural Egyptology, conference organizing, and the links between research and teaching. 

A conversation with John Mullan (Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern  English Literature, UCL) about the arc of his career, textual  scholarship, and the role of academics and scholarship today. 

A conversation with Séan Richardson (Nottingham Trent University) about his PhD on queer geographies, his work on the Modernist Podcast, and a  range of wider issues in higher education. 

A conversation with Alison Waller (University of Roehampton) about her latest book (Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics) and her research on  memory, rereading, and literary fiction. 

A conversation with Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck, University of London) about  her PhD research on Futurism, her work as a journal editor, and her involvement with the Derek Jarman Lab.