The half-year in music: Jan-June 2020
In January of each year since 2015, I have started a new Spotify playlist. Over the course of the year, I add to it. This is 2020 in my listening so far.… Read More The half-year in music: Jan-June 2020
Lockhart
Final Fantasy VII, the greatest narrative videogame ever released, with a startlingly radical climate-change message, has been remade. This review assesses the remake in terms of the increased centrality of one character, Tifa Lockhart.… Read More Lockhart
Hardcover
It’s in. It’s done. It’s in it’s done it’s gone it’s through it’s over…
Again. … Read More Hardcover
Journal article on Anakana Schofield
I’ve just had my second academic article published, and the first which draws directly on my PhD research. In this piece I position Anakana Schofield’s depictions of damaged consciousness in Malarky and (particularly) Martin John within a broader modernist tradition, drawing particularly on the theoretical work of Marshall Berman. I’m really pleased to have an article C21,… Read More Journal article on Anakana Schofield
Journal article on the Southern Reach – first academic publication!
My first academic publication is now available to read online. The article is called ‘The War on Terroir’, and you’ll be pleased to know that I call my own title ‘conventionally wearisome’ in the first two paragraphs of the paper. This builds upon my conference presentation lasdt year at the University of Malta, on the… Read More Journal article on the Southern Reach – first academic publication!
PhD Vlog 7: Looking Back on the First Year
New PhD vlog! In this one I talk about my first year review, and what I’ve been doing over the summer. None of the usual editing flimflam with this one. I basically recorded it in one take while testing out a new webcam and just decided to upload it as is. Enjoy, comment, subscribe and… Read More PhD Vlog 7: Looking Back on the First Year
Dirigible Straits
Dirigible Straits [a sketch]… Read More Dirigible Straits
PhD Vlog 6: Vlogging Valletta
Second (of three) vlogs about my first academic conference presentation. … Read More PhD Vlog 6: Vlogging Valletta
In Malta
I am tired, contented, and in Malta.
I came here to talk about some books.… Read More In Malta
I’m going to Malta! PhD Vlog 5 and Edinburgh Libraries
Hi all, two quick updates for you all here on R2R: First, I’m going to Malta! As you can hear about in my fifth PhD vlog, embedded below. In this video, the first of a three-part series, I look forward to my first ever academic conference presentation. I talk about the application process, the two… Read More I’m going to Malta! PhD Vlog 5 and Edinburgh Libraries
