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Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses (2018)
Journal Article
Danaan, V. (2018). Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses. Journal of Sustainable Development, 11(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v11n1p20

Various indicators suggest that poverty is a major obstacle to Nigeria’s socio-economic development. Poverty has persisted, and several interventions have failed to yield significant improvement in Nigeria’s Human Development Index even in periods of... Read More about Analysing poverty in Nigeria through theoretical lenses.

Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth (2018)
Journal Article
White, G. (2018). Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth. Textual Practice, 32(2), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2018.1413049

The founding of the Christine Brooke-Rose Society and its inaugural event prompted me to revisit my history with the author with whom I was fortunate enough to correspond during the last decade of her life. Our correspondence ran alongside my complet... Read More about Christine Brooke-Rose : motes, beams and the horse's mouth.

The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English) (2018)
Journal Article
Hurley, U., & Naray-Davey, S. (2018). The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English). Cogent Arts and Humanities, 5(1), 1426183. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1426183

This interdisciplinary paper unfolds an account of a collaborative translation project, which draws on Ellen Eve Frank’s concept of “literary architecture” to propose a process of “architectural translation”. Our proposal is illustrated by a detailed... Read More about The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English).

Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, J., & Price, H. (2018). Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Politeness Research, 14(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0056

In this article, we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a... Read More about Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics.

Bringing things to life : understanding everyday life through the procedural representation of material culture in historical video games (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2018, January). Bringing things to life : understanding everyday life through the procedural representation of material culture in historical video games. Presented at PLAY/PAUSE Symposium, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

In the last decades, the exponential increase in computer game graphics technology has made possible to virtually reconstruct historical worlds with an unprecedented level of detail and realism. This capacity, however, has not been accompanied by a c... Read More about Bringing things to life : understanding everyday life through the procedural representation of material culture in historical video games.

The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable (2018)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2018). The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable. Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 4,

As Tolkien himself asserted, his creative writing processes were fundamentally linguistic. They were driven by his private invented languages, by the names in those languages, and by linguistic aesthetics. To a great extent, the purpose of his creati... Read More about The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable.

Cold War Nostalgia in The Game (2018)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2018). Cold War Nostalgia in The Game. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(3), 436-452. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431

This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played b... Read More about Cold War Nostalgia in The Game.

The Urban Moth 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. The Urban Moth 2018. [Ceramics mixed media]. 1 January 2018. (Unpublished)

Artist in residence and a solo exhibition at the Manchester Museum. The urban moth is a response to the collections in the Entomology Department of the museum. The Urban Moth is an entirely fictitious breed of moth that lives in the museum. It res... Read More about The Urban Moth 2018.