Critical Attitudes: Recent Episodes
Nathan Waddell
Interviews with scholars in English studies. Hosted by Dr Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham, UK). Low budget.
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.