News from the MHRA - Interviews

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Sep 5, 2024 interviews
Collective and Convergent
Barbara Burns talks to Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug, and Giuliana Pieri about their book Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence, a new Open Access title from Legenda.
Aug 15, 2024 interviews
Can Dada Hold Up A Bridge?
Peter Zusi interviewed about his new book on the great Czech designer and theorist, Karel Teige.
Jul 15, 2024 interviews
The rose pattern driven into the dead iron-filings by the magnet
Barbara Burns talks to Stephen Romer, whose book Chaos and the Clean Line appeared recently in Legenda’s Transcript series.
May 15, 2024 interviews
Can This Dog Be A Rabbit?
Barbara Burns talks to Chloe Paver, editor of the new edition of the MHRA Style Guide.
Apr 22, 2024 interviews
The Intermingledness of Language and World
Barbara Burns talks to Charlie Louth, whose book Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to Jaccottet appeared recently in Legenda’s Transcript series.
Apr 22, 2024 interviews
Latin American Gothic
Barbara Burns talks to Jenny Haase and Joanna Neilly about their recent book on German Romanticism and Latin America.
Apr 16, 2024 interviews
The Great Networker
Barbara Burns talks to Max Saunders, co-editor of The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, and Lucinda Borkett-Jones, the project’s MHRA Research Associate this year.
Feb 24, 2024 interviews
The Richest You Can Take
Barbara Burns talks to Federica Pedriali of the Edinburgh Gadda Encyclopedia, and Marco Ruggieri, the project’s MHRA Research Associate.
Jan 30, 2024 interviews
Secret Joy and Growing Awareness
Barbara Burns talks to Peter Morgan, whose book Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary has just been published by Legenda.
Jan 25, 2024 interviews
Never an Island
Barbara Burns talks to Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel, co-editors of Women on the Yiddish Stage.
Dec 17, 2023 interviews
One Day in Rome
An interview with Mara Josi, author of a new book about the round-up of Rome's Jewish population on 16 October 1943.
Sep 13, 2023 interviews
Switzerland, but with History
Karunika Kardak talks about her new book on the historical novel in modern Uruguay, a peaceful country with a great football team.
Sep 3, 2023 interviews
A Hiding Place, a Forest, or an Ocean
An interview with Doriane Zerka, author of Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature.
Jul 22, 2023 interviews
250 Noble Endeavours
An interview with Derek Connon, author of the 250th Texts and Translations volume: Michel-Jean Sedaine's play in praise of the Enlightenment.
Jul 8, 2023 interviews
Tiger-Leaps Into the Past
Barbara Burns talks to Martin Brady and Helen Hughes, co-editors of The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Jul 8, 2023 interviews
Creating Connections through Theatre from Uruguay
Barbara Burns speaks to Sophie Stevens, author of Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice.
Jun 14, 2023 interviews
An Enviable Liberty
Barbara Burns interviews Mairéad Hanrahan, author of the recently published Legenda volume Genet's Genres of Politics.
Jun 13, 2023 interviews
The Lantern and the Wolf
Barbara Burns talks to Marco Faini, whose book Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy recently appeared in Legenda.
Jun 1, 2023 interviews
ABELL's New Editor
Meet Anke Schumacher, ABELL's New Editor.
May 26, 2023 interviews
Sensations, Emotions and Experiences
Barbara Burns interviews Adriana X. Jacobs and Claire Williams, co-editors of After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century.
Mar 26, 2023 interviews
Borrowings
Barbara Burns speaks to Mark Towsey, director of the project ‘Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic’, and Rita Dashwood, the project’s MHRA Research Associate.
Mar 15, 2023 interviews
The Incendiary Breath
Barbara Burns interviews Jane Hiddleston, whose book on the remarkable Frantz Fanon - psychiatrist, philosopher and anticolonial firebrand - is just out.
Mar 8, 2023 interviews
The Mysteries of Ann Radcliffe
Barbara Burns speaks to Professor Angela Wright, one of the General Editors of the new CUP edition of the works of Ann Radcliffe, and Dr Rosie Whitcombe, the project’s MHRA Research Associate this year.
Feb 28, 2023 interviews
The Scripture at his Ploughbeam
An interview with Alex Davis, co-editor of Erasmus in English 1523-1584, the first two volumes of which are now published.
Feb 15, 2023 interviews
Trissotin Speaks
Barbara Burns interviews Dick Andrews, author of Classical Comedy 1508-1786: A Legacy from Italy and France.
Feb 15, 2023 interviews
Fear of a Blank World
Barbara Burns speaks to Joanna Raisbeck, author of Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic.
Oct 4, 2022 interviews
Uploading the Wooden Boy
Barbara Burns interviews Georgia Panteli, author of From Puppet to Cyborg: Pinocchio’s Posthuman Journey.
Sep 6, 2022 interviews
At the Centenary of the Apocalypse
Barbara Burns interviews James P. Leveque, author of Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound.
Jul 10, 2022 interviews
Bridges
An interview with Alice Loda, author of The Translingual Verse: Migration, Rhythm, and Resistance in Contemporary Italophone Poetry.
Jun 28, 2022 interviews
Christoph and Caesar
An interview with Christoph Pretzer, whose book Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century has recently appeared.
Jun 15, 2022 interviews
Points of View
Barbara Burns interviews Joanne Brueton, whose book Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject was published earlier this year.
Jun 7, 2022 interviews
The Stones of Venice
An interview with Ronnie Ferguson, whose survey of Venetian Inscriptions has recently appeared.
Jun 6, 2022 interviews
Mightier
Interviewing Joanna Barker, who has recently edited The Pen and the Needle: Rousseau & the Enlightenment Debate on Women's Education.
Apr 6, 2022 interviews
The Streets for Themselves
Barbara Burns interviews Brigid Lynch, author of Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina: Cultural Dialogues of the Post-Crisis Era.
Mar 6, 2022 interviews
From Chaucer to Godwin
Interviewing two MHRA Research Associates, Laurie Atkinson and Jenny McAuley, and two project directors, Julia Boffey and Pamela Clemit, working on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Godwin.
Feb 23, 2022 interviews
Much More Than Alice and Harry
Barbara Burns interviews Professor Eugene Giddens of Anglia Ruskin University, General Editor of The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English, and Dr Sarah Pyke, the project's MHRA Research Associate this year.
Feb 7, 2022 interviews
Molière and his Doubles
Barbara Burns interviews Suzanne Jones, author of The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in Flux 1663-1732.
Jan 21, 2022 interviews
A German Childhood
Barbara Burns interviews Alex Lloyd, author of Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture.
Dec 1, 2021 interviews
Feisty Fearless Francisca
Barbara Burns interviews Cláudia Pazos Alonso, author of Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: Pressing for Change.
Sep 30, 2021 interviews
Unmasked
Barbara Burns interviews Elisa Segnini, author of Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the fin-de-siècle Imagination.
Sep 14, 2021 interviews
The Cicada
Jamie McKendrick on Mandelstam, Racine, and tragedy.
Sep 14, 2021 interviews
Jamie McKendrick on Art and Translation
The poet, translator and critic Jamie McKendrick interviewed at Juxta Press.
Sep 9, 2021 interviews
Fact-Fantasy in Franconia
Robert Craig talks about his new book on the disruptive German novelist Alfred Döblin with Barbara Burns.
Sep 8, 2021 interviews
Happy Places
Anja Tröger, author of our new book on migration and literture, talks to Barbara Burns.
Aug 20, 2021 interviews
Monzonià! An interview with Guillem Colom-Montero
Barbara Burns interviews Guillem Colom-Montero, author of a new monograph on the playful Catalan writer Quim Monzó.
Aug 15, 2021 interviews
Fierce Iambics: An Interview with David McCallam
Barbara Burns interviews David McCallam, translator of the French Revolution poet André Chénier.
Mar 1, 2021 interviews
Andrew Hines on Metaphor and Truth
Jonathon Catlin interviews Andrew Hines, author of Metaphor in European Philosophy after Nietzsche: An Intellectual History.
Mar 10, 2018 interviews
Haunted by Presences: Interview with Eleanor Dobson
An interview with Eleanor Dobson, cultural historian of the exotic.
Feb 12, 2018 interviews
To the Alps with Ruskin: An Interview with Keith Hanley
Jan 22, 2018 interviews
Béarnaise Sources: Interview with Damien Mooney
An interview with Damien Mooney, a specialist in the sociolinguistics of regional French.
Jan 9, 2018 interviews
Long live the Intellectuals! Interview with Jack Boas
An interview with Jack Boas, historian of the Writers’ Congress.
Oct 31, 2017 interviews
A Sort of Glorious Posterity: Interview with Jess Goodman
In the first of a new series of interviews with Humanities scholars, we talk to Jess Goodman, a specialist in early modern French drama.