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When the idea of setting up a Modern Languages school (which was intended to include the study of English) was being debated at the University of Oxford in the late 1880s, E.A. Freeman, Regius Professor of Modern History, witheringly dismissed the study of literature as ‘mere chatter about Shelley’. Freeman was impressed with his coinage, […]
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Can editing an encyclopedia of stage directors be anything but an impossible task? Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara) and I were invited to consider such an undertaking just under a decade ago; Simon had just published an encyclopedia of stage actors and acting, and this felt like a sensible next stage. We soon realised, however, […]
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Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free déjeuner. I’d have to see a play every night and discuss it the […]
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When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be “neither too frequent nor too arduous.” They were true to their word, and as a result I can claim little credit […]
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When, in his 1716 poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay announced he would instruct his readers on “How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night”, he firmly positioned his account between two different modes of representing the city. Like Ned Ward’s The London Spy, Gay’s poem […]
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Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.” I find that her co-constructed tango practice better encapsulates my own theatrical translation experience, as a US-based actor, director, spectator, and –yes—translator, than translator Katherine Gregor’s asymmetrical ballroom-dance analogy which positions the […]
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We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page), we discuss the exigence and shape of our book. Here’s a few excerpts from that introduction, which we hope will entice you to read the introduction […]
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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It takes as its remit the intense proximity, entwinement, and even identity between queerness and American literature. When the American literary scholar Eric Savoy asked […]
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