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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)...

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Slow 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...

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The 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’,...

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Why 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...

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Creativity 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...

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Publishing 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...

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Fighting 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...

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Open 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...

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‘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...

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The 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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