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James Emmott is a postgraduate research student in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is completing his PhD on nineteenth-century understandings of composite form in the arts and sciences of the voice and the face, supported by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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Institutional affiliation
Birkbeck, University of London
Research interests
Voice, literary history, recording, performance, cultural history, visual culture

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An event by James Emmott was featured

Orality and Literacy, 17 Mar 2012 (London C19 Studies Seminar) at G37 Senate House

March 17, 2012 from 11am to 5pm
Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More
Mar 15
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Orality and Literacy, 17 Mar 2012 (London C19 Studies Seminar) at G37 Senate House

March 17, 2012 from 11am to 5pm
Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More
Mar 15
James Emmott joined Beatrice Bazell's group
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Fragments

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an interest in disengaged or broken-up fragments of bodies, things, concepts, or historical ideas is welcome.See More
Jan 26
Daniel Barrow joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Jan 20
Emma D joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Dec 11, 2011
Kevin Mullen joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Dec 2, 2011
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Oct 28, 2011
James Emmott joined Susan Civale's group
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Nineteenth Century Reading Group

This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month. Contact susancivale@yahoo.com for further information.See More
Oct 19, 2011
An event by James Emmott was featured

Dr. Livingstone’s Lost ‘Massacre’ Diary at Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London

November 5, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm
“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More
Oct 17, 2011
James Emmott posted an event

Dr. Livingstone’s Lost ‘Massacre’ Diary at Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London

November 5, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm
“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More
Oct 17, 2011
Hannah Proctor joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Oct 12, 2011
Ghazal Mosadeq joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Oct 6, 2011
Shaun May joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Sep 23, 2011
James Emmott joined Tony Venezia's group
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RUBBISH

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and through spaces, objects and language. See More
Jun 20, 2011
Ollie Evans joined James Emmott's group
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London Sound Seminar

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More
Jun 11, 2011
An event by James Emmott was featured

Postcard from the Volcano: Nineteenth-Century Poetry by the Book at B04, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck

May 23, 2011 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Prof. Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia), Director of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)This paper is part of a larger project on the troubled archive of nineteenth-century literature, which investigates both how nineteenth-century British authors worried over the material record, and also how current digital transformations are troubling that record in ways both revealing and problematic. (Part of…See More
May 18, 2011

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