Contested Words: The Debates Over Meaning in the Early Modern Period
The following is a work in progress poster for a one-day conference I am organising on the 21st June 2013. The following is a brief description of the conference: Digitisation […]
Tips for Getting Postgraduate Funding
Applying for funding for a PhD is a difficult and demanding process. Here is five tips from my own experience in gaining PhD funding.
Dialogues with Death and the Devil
One of the characteristics of dialogues published in the first half of the seventeenth century is woodcuts on the frontispieces. The woodcuts are often used to identify the characters […]
Reason and Debate, or, why sometimes people fail to convert
This week I have been thinking a lot about knowledge-exchange and the transfer of news within the dialogue genre for a paper I will be giving in a few weeks […]
Academics and Olympians
Over the past week the world, or at the very least my home, has been swept up in olympic fever. After Danny Boyles incredible opening ceremony, that gave us an […]
No Academic is an Island
Academics are increasingly becoming involved with blogging, but how effective are we at it? Are we using blogging as productively as we could, and if not what can we do […]
How to talk about books you haven’t read
We have all been in that situation where we are surrounded by our highly cultured and intelligent friends and they start talking about a great book. Often, it’s a book […]
The Order of Books, or How Digitisation is changing the meaning of texts (Part 2)
The previous post in this series argued, digitisation is changing the way in which we encounter texts. It alters the experience of reading and the way we find books. One […]
Can we even talk of an early modern public?
Today marked the first day of the Reading Publics summer school at the University of Warwick. So far it has been exceptionally stimulating and has exploded some concepts that I […]
Remediation, or how digitisation is changing the meaning of texts (Part 1)
Digitisation is an inevitable process of modernity; more and more books are being digitised and there seems to be no indication of it stopping. This week saw the discovery of, […]
Early Modern Dialogues 