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A 2021 Update...

2/19/2021

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Well, 2021 is zooming by, isn't it?
​Some updates:

The Grappling Arts podcast continues to churn out excellent content. In recent episodes we have spoken to Gene Munny, Spike Trivet and Charles Crowley, and we (that is me, Sam and John) have chatted about 3 years of Resurgence (3 years!). You can find the podcast here.

On the 1st January I took over from the incomparable Dr Dan Moore as the new Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies. It is a privilege to be heading up this organisation in 2021; BAMS has been such an important part of my academic journey. We are looking forward to many exciting events over the course of the next few months. Keep your eyes peeled if you like a bit of modernist scholarship.

We also signed the contract for the now forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre. I am working with three wonderful co-editors (Adrian Curtin, Nick Johnson, and Naomi Paxton), and we have an incredible list of contributors. We are aiming for a 2022 publication date. 

Three big pieces of news so far in 2021. 


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BAMS Statement on Black Lives Matter

6/15/2020

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Led by our new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer (Dr Juliette Taylor-Batty), the Executive Committee of the British Association of Modernist Studies have published a statement on recent events. Over the past month I have been challenged to listen more and speak less. But I also recognise the need to speak. So I am very glad to promote this statement and stand by its contents.
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What happened to British drama in the 1930s?

6/15/2020

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...if you have ever mulled over this question, then panic not, friends! I have a new chapter for that. I am pleased to say that my chapter on Drama in the 1930s has just been published in the new The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s. I am delighted to see this in print, alongside chapters from a whole host of illustrious modernists. Rather brilliantly, my chapter is one of those available open-access on Google Books. Do let me know if it inspires any questions or thoughts. 

Here is the abstract so you can decide if it worth your reading time:

In 1938, Stephen Spender imagined a ‘revolution in the ideas of drama’, a theatre that could both deal with the complex socio-politics of the decade and take on new aesthetic challenges. The trouble, of course, was what this drama might look like in practice. In fact, in addressing the multifarious artistic and political disputes of this period, drama in the 1930s resists easy critical definition, residing in a liminal sense betwixt and between positions, terminology, and aesthetics. It can be read as highbrow, lowbrow, or middlebrow, with many individual examples flitting between these permeable categories.

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