After everything else I had planned for this Spring got cancelled, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present at the BAAS Digital Dialogues series. Basically a virtual version of the BAAS Annual Conference, which was due to run in Liverpool in April this year, the Digital Dialogues allow academics to share their ideas in a virtual environment to benefit from each other’s feedback and generate new ideas.
Some musings on the benefits of holidays and doing nothing from a former compulsive worker. What’s to be gained by taking it easy?
British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, University of Sussex 25-27 April 2019 In celebration of the fiftieth birthday of… Read more CfP: Queerness and American Horror Fiction
Okay, I’ll be blogging about day one for US Studies Online (coming soon!) but I feel the need to add a… Read more BAAS 2017: Why It Was Ace
As we speak I’m working my way through Hogg, Samuel R. Delany’s controversial novel which depicts how a self-proclaimed “rape… Read more
Despite suffering from a terrible case of tonsillitis – which has restricted me to my bed on an on and… Read more BAAS 2015: A Review
I spent the past weekend in Birmingham at the 59th annual conference of the British Association for American Studies. My… Read more BAAS 2014: On Violent Films and Disturbing Cities
On 13 and 14 March, the last event in the Becoming a Public Intellectual series took place. This time we… Read more Public Intellectual: Final Event
I have been very busy lately, which is why I haven’t written much. It’s not that I don’t have the… Read more A Short Update
Yesterday the fifth Public Intellectual event took place. As always, it was a real joy to spend a day in… Read more Another Great Day at the Office
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