Showcasing the incredibly diverse range of research publications in the Faculty of Arts.
Robert A. Lambert, Lecturer in Environmental History
Illuminates a century of conflict between competing landuses and visions in the Highlands of Scotland in a landscape destined in 2003 to become the largest National Park ever designated in Britain.
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Gwilym Dodd, Associate Professor
This article explores why elaborate and obsequious forms of addressing the king emerged in fourteenth-century England.
Sarah Badcock, Professor of Modern History
This book seeks to humanise the individuals who made up the mass of exiles, and the men, women, and children who followed them voluntarily into eastern Siberian exile in the last years of Tsarism.
Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies
This paper bring additional nuance to discussions about female Viking warriors through attention to words and texts.
Jon Hoover, Professor of Islamic Studies
A lucid introduction to Ibn Taymiyya’s life of activism and his unique approach to Islamic spirituality, practice, and theology.
Hannah O'Regan, Professor of Archaeology and Palaeoecology
This paper draws together archaeological and archival evidence from nine bear-baiting sites in London and suggests a model for identifying similar deposits elsewhere.
Isobel Elstob, Assistant Professor in Art History
An exploration of how contemporary artists reimagine 19th-century technologies, crafts, lives and narratives in their work.
Gillian Roberts, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Culture
A study of postcolonial, settler colonial, and Indigenous film adaptations, interrogating representation across national borders.
Ruth Maxey, Associate Professor, American and Canadian Studies
Ruth Maxey edits and introduces the collection, contextualising Mukherjee’s short fiction and the provocative, often prescient political questions it raises.
Dr Lynn S Fotheringham, Lecturer in Classics
How the recent graphic novel "Three" tries to give a more complete view of life in the notorious Greek city-state of Sparta.
Onyeka Nubia, Assistant Professor of History
We are told that somewhere in history, racist attitudes began, and that is why people have them now. This book challenges the trajectory of this claim and will stimulate debates on issues of difference, identity, theology and race.
Olivia Hellewell, Assistant Professor, Peninsular Spanish and Translation Studies
Translated into English by Olivia Hellewell, a gripping novel of family and national division that spans three generations, changing borders and the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Hongwei Bao, Associate Professor in Media Studies
Examines queer music, photography, theatre and social activism to discern the pivotal role of performance in queer identity and community formation.
Graham Thompson, Professor of American Literature
How Melville responded innovatively to the demands of magazine writing and reinvented literary traditions to help create the modern short story.
Theodora Jim, Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History
A compelling analysis of one of the most ubiquitous religious practices in ancient Greece, the offering of ‘first-fruits’ and ‘tithes’.
Dr. Zachary Hoskins, Associate Professor
Analyses the various kinds of collateral consequences imposed in different legal systems and the important moral challenges they raise.
Jean Andrews, Associate Professor Hispanic Studies
Looks at the painting of Morales in juxtaposition with other cultural production, religious tensions and the output of other artists.
Chris Woodard, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy
Explains how utilitarianism can account for moral rights, for the importance of justice and equality, and for the significance of democracy and legitimacy.
Jeremy E. Taylor, Professor of Modern History
Explores the visual cultures developed by the Chinese “collaborationist” regime during the Japanese occupation.
Michael Stephen Burdett, Associate Professor of Christian Theology
A contemporary Christian response to transhumanism based around the themes of possibility and promise.
Philip Goodchild, Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Reintegrates economics, philosophy and theology within the context of global ecological and economic crisis.
Richard A. Gaunt, Associate Professor of History
Offering an unrivalled insight into political events from the perspective of a noted ‘Ultra-Tory’.
Louise Mullany, Professor
Offers new ways of conducting professional communication research with real-world impact.
Lucy Jones, Associate Professor
Through their language, young people reject stereotypes from within queer culture and strive to be “normal”.
Par Kumaraswami, Professor
Offers a new way to look at the many ways in which literature functions in post-1959 Cuba and beyond.
Spencer Jordan, Associate Professor
Explores how we tell stories in the twenty-first century, and how modes and forms of creativity have changed.
Mark Pearce, Professor
The first archaeological overview of Summer Farms in Europe, from the Black Sea to Spain and Iceland, concentrating on the Alps.
Liz Evans, Professor of Screen Cultures
What does engagement really mean to those who make and experience screen content?
Nicola McLelland, Professor
Breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization.
Nick Baron, Associate Professor
Examines the history of child displacement and the experiences of displaced children.
Pierre-Alexis Mével, Associate Professor
Analyses the French subtitling of African American English in a corpus of films from the United States.
Paul Grainge, Professor
Explores the small screen intimacy of cars - the way people interact, sing and dwell in the habitat of automobiles.
Thomas Legrende, Assistant Professor
About an archaeologist who travels back in time and has an affair with his wife - or is it about a musician having an affair with her husband?
James Mansell, Professor in Cultural Studies
Offers a new perspective on modern Britain, showing that everyday sounds were central to the negotiation of modernity.
Joanna Martin, Associate Professor
The first critical edition of the thirty-four unique items in the Findern manuscript.
Lynda Pratt, Professor
The 546 surviving letters written by the controversial ‘Lake Poet’ Robert Southey between 1818-1821.
Vivien Miller, Professor
How organised crime was entwined with horse racing in Prohibition-era North America.
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