Today I’m finishing off the term with the students on the MSc in Book History and Material Culture by screening the film Helvetica. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s the best documentary about a typeface you’ll see this year!
Yesterday I was at the British Library to celebrate Academic Book Week, and to help launch a collection of essays called The Academic Book of the Future. The collection opens with an essay by me, called ‘The Academic Book as Socially-Embedded Media Artefact’. It’s being published by Palgrave in their Pivot series, which means you …
Roundtable, After-image: Life Writing and Celebrity, The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities and Wolfson College, Oxford - September 2015
In this short video, produced for the University of Edinburgh, I discuss the work of the Centre for the History of the Book.
British Association of Romantic Studies Conference, 'Romantic Imprints' , Cardiff University - July 2015
