Personal experience, turned outwards
I have had some work published in Issue 62 of Free Associations. This is a long-established journal that explores psychoanalysis and its relation to culture, now under the new (and peer reviewed)...
View ArticleSlow publishing
A few days ago, on Wednesday October 19, Julian Barnes won the Man Booker prize for his novel A Sense of an Ending. In his acceptance speech he thanked the book’s designer and explained why its...
View ArticleThe raw and the cooked
A new book on literary journalism is now on sale; a collection of essays by scholars from around the world. It contains two chapters by me. One chapter, ‘Slow journalism in the digital fast lane’,...
View ArticleWhy Kenneth Burke is worth reading
A Twitter colleague put out a call for help recently: I know how he feels – I had to clear my diary for at least a week to read The Rhetoric of Motives **. It took a long period of entry, and then...
View ArticleCreativity and the academy
Updated March 7 The Times Higher Education magazine has quoted my colleague Dr Louise Tondeur in an article, and has mentioned the conference she is organising this April for people interested in the...
View ArticlePublishing and the university
A nervous morning today, braving the public for the first time at the London Book Fair. Every year there are dozens of fascinating talks, panels and seminars. Last year, I noticed that although the...
View ArticleFighting on two fronts
I came across an interesting debate last week about whether the digital humanities (DH) could be deemed responsible for a number of unpleasant trends in higher education, because of its supposed...
View ArticleOpen for (PhD supervision) business
Now that my own PhD is done and dusted, I am looking to take on doctoral students at the University of Roehampton, where I have worked for the last 10 years. Besides supportive supervision, I can offer...
View Article‘Editors talk about editing’– the back story
This collection of interviews with editors started years ago as part of a PhD thesis in Publishing, from UCL’s Department of Information Studies. The book version provides readers with a full text of...
View ArticleThe PhD supervisor as editor
When I made the switch from editor to academic, about 12 years ago, doing doctoral research on that former profession was a way of connecting two different lives. Now the shoe is on other foot, and I...
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