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As I work on my own and do not have access to a university I find it is extremely important to make sure I visit lectures and events offered to the public by institutions in London.

This week I have been to Birkbeck Photo History lecture on Robert Rauschenberg's use of photographs.  It was given by Graham Smith, Professor of Art History (Emeritus) at Edinburgh University.  We sat around a large wooden table in a cool room in Gordon…

I am currently writing up my thesis. 

Not a day passes without the future of the book being mentioned in the news.  It is not always headline news.  Mostly it isn’t — unless it is the launch of a new e-Reader, such as the news that came out last month that Kobo was partnering with W.H. Smith.  Besides such items, there is a noticeable, steady stream of announcements, discussions, articles in the media – and particularly the social media – about the book, where it’s headed, how it’s evolving and whether it will survive. 

A…

The Institute of English Studies is hosting a one-day colloquum on behalf of the Book History Research Network on 25 November on "The Future Perfect of the Book".

At a moment when the rise of e-Readers foretells the end of the printed book, the founder of the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle launches an initiative for the preservation of…

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11.00-12.00:  Poetry Discussion – led by Catherine Maxwell  (Queen Mary) [poems to…

Conversations with Seth, Attention Revisited

Interviewed by Dr. Kathleen Dunley at the Comics Grid

For myself, I’m very interested in it as a slow medium. I think that a lot of the work I do…

"He do the police in different voices" - Martin Rowson's Pulp Modernism

…the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely  with his own generation in his…

"Being a London writer is more like being a London editor."

Iain Sinclair

Instead of establishing causal connections, this comics montage rearranges and juxtaposes dialectical image and text producing profane illumination, allowing Sinclair and McKean to re-present a historiographical vision of history that Benjamin would have recognised as related to his own methods and subjects.

Comics Grid

The Eighth Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be held in association with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition, Arbeitsgemeinschaft philosophischer Editionen and Fachgruppe Freie Forschungsinstitute der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Bern, Switzerland, from 15 - 18 February 2012.

The topic of the…

                                         Why a T S Eliot International Summer School?

From 9-16 July, the Institute of English Studies will host the 3^rd Annual T.S. Eliot International Summer School in Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury.  The venue is adjacent to 24 Russell Square, the former offices of Faber & Faber, where Eliot conducted his life as poet, editor, and publisher for forty years. The Summer School will begin with an official opening by…

Senate House Library has the largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of poet, playwright, critic, designer and engraver T. Sturge Moore (1870-1944).  In accordance with Sturge Moore’s own wishes, his papers arrived in the Library in several tranches, the earliest being deposited in the mid-1960s.  The collection (MS 978) is now fully catalogued and available for research, together with a collection of books from Sturge Moore’s personal library acquired by the Institute…

I will be updating the blog from time to time to reflect my current research directions.

I am currently interested in how hegemony and state rivalry interact through the vector of the image in the early modern period.

Current questions are:

• Why is Spain the target of persistent attack?
• Are the reasons moral, religious, political or economic?
• Why does Spain lack the rich printed graphical culture seen in the…