Min Wild’s review featured in the Time Literary Supplement

University of Plymouth researcher Dr Min Wild’s article ‘Print and oral performance in the eighteenth century’ has featured as a lead review in the TLS. In the piece, she examines the complex and changing relationship between print and the oral, focusing on The Invention of Books by Paula McDowell and Abigail Williams’ The Social Life… Continue reading Min Wild’s review featured in the Time Literary Supplement

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. ICCMR Seminar: Aurelien Antoine – ‘Designing a Sound Classification System’. 3.30pm on 11th October 2016 in Scott Building 105 Artist Talk: Tony Godfrey – ‘Painting in the age of Installation’. 4pm on… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

Feature article by Dr Min Wild in Times Literary Supplement

The Distrest Poet

Plymouth University researcher Dr Min Wild has one of the lead articles in last week’s Times Literary Supplement: a 3,000 word essay-review of a new book on Oliver Goldsmith and eighteenth-century Grub St subcultures. Min researches in the eighteenth century, with special interests in periodicals and print culture, in satire, and in criticism. She teaches eighteenth-century literature, as well as early modern… Continue reading Feature article by Dr Min Wild in Times Literary Supplement

Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”

Pierre-August Renoir, The Wave, 1879 (public domain)

BY MIN WILD Because what we do as academics is demanding, and coercive in so many ways – ways both good and bad – there is seldom any time for play, or experiment, or sheer foolery. Even when the day-to-day demands of teaching or admin ease, our own research involves restrictions, parameters, duties and certain… Continue reading Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”