by chrisa | Aug 30, 2016 | Collaborations
The reputation of David Foster Wallace, the startlingly original author of Infinite Jest (1996), has undergone a change since his death in 2008. As of 2016, there has been an increased academic interest in his work, with several doctoral theses, monographs and...
by eleanorh | Jan 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the past month or so, I’ve been mulling over Marion Thain’s brilliantly suggestive essay on the nature and future of English as a discipline, which has helped me to notice things that otherwise might have passed me by. Barely a week after its appearance, for...
by eleanorh | Jan 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the early morning I run through Beckenham Place Park which is cut in two by the trainline to Victoria. Half-empty carriages click-clack past carrying the remaining few commuters into the city. I have missed reading books in the Victorian manner, sitting in the...
by eleanorh | Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Looking back on the last four years of research leading up to the submission of my PhD thesis in June and the viva in September, the question that kept recurring was – why am I doing this? PhDs are hard work, and the going gets tough along the way as various seemingly...
by eleanorh | Dec 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
My research often explores activist responses to ongoing social problems. During my Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the IES I have worked on a monograph on women’s role in consumer activism in the UK and USA between 1885 and 1920. These initiatives, part...
by eleanorh | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I got my start in English studies in early modern textual editing, but over the last two years have transitioned into postwar (queer) literature. As I’ve explored how queer fiction was published, marketed, and sold in an era that criminalised homosexuality and had a...
by eleanorh | Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Working from home is a significant theme in my research – though not as we have got to know it in 2020. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ‘home work’ generally betokened the exploitative labour practices known as ‘sweating’. Home workers were...
