• Popular Performance 

  Ainsworth, Adam ; Double, Oliver ; Peacock, Louise (Book)

  There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. The main ...
• “How do I act so well?” The British “Shakespearean” Actor and Cultural Cachet 

  Blackwell, Anna (Book chapter)

  This chapter on the cultural cachet of contemporary British performers commonly referred to as ‘Shakespearean’ actors, explores how such attribution relates to more traditional markers of esteem. It examines how the implied ...
• Seaming Hands: The Meaning and Value of the Handmade in Contemporary Fashion 

  Lee, Yeseung (Article)

  The perpetual crisis of subjectivity experienced today means
that the modern self is always partial and relative to what is “other.” This corresponds to the more individualized and coded values relevant to what is currently ...
• Individual upcycling practice: Exploring the possible determinants of upcycling based on a literature review 

  Sung, Kyungeun ; Cooper, Tim ; Kettley, Sarah (Conference)

  Individual upcycling – the creation or creative modification of any product out of used materials in an attempt to generate a product of higher quality or value than the compositional elements – has recently been advocated ...
• Adapting Coriolanus: Tom Hiddleston’s Body and Action Cinema 

  Blackwell, Anna (Article)

  Despite a critical movement seen across the humanities described as the ‘corporeal turn’ (Elam 143) in Shakespeare studies alone, adaptation studies has been slow to situate the body as a site of major interpretive ...
• The Twice Chang'd Friar 

  Keenan, Siobhan (Book)

  'The Twice Chang'd Friar' is one of four early 17th-century plays preserved in a manuscript miscellany in the library of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton (Arbury Hall MS A414), the seat of the Newdigate family, one of whose members, ...
• The Turn of the Century: Henry James in Millennial Fiction 

  Layne, Bethany (Article)

  This article explores the developments in biographical and appropriative literature that enabled the proliferation of novels rewriting James’s life and works, including the postmodern scepticism towards biography as empirical ...
• The “Supreme Portrait Artist” and the “Mistress of the Phrase”: Contesting Oppositional Portrayals of Woolf and Bell, Life and Art, in Susan Sellers’s Vanessa and Virginia (2008) 

  Layne, Bethany (Article)

  This article offers one of the first sustained explorations of Susan Sellers’s biofiction Vanessa and Virginia (2008), tracing the text’s intersections with biographies of Woolf and Bell and placing it in dialogue with ...
• Individual upcycling in the UK: Insights for scaling up towards sustainable development 

  Sung, Kyungeun ; Cooper, Tim ; Kettley, Sarah (Book chapter)

  Community-level innovation or action for sustainability is an important strand for sustainable development. As such, researchers investigated grassroots innovations, community-driven development or bottom-up approach. Many ...
• The 'Estranged' Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry 

  Dee, David Gareth (Book)

  This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish ...
• Sarah Turner–Eco-artist and designer through craft-based upcycling 

  Sung, Kyungeun ; Cooper, Tim (Article)

  Sarah Turner is an eco-artist and designer who practices craft-based upcycling with waste plastic bottles and cans to create lighting, sculpture and decorative home interior products. Since 1998, her enthusiasm, creativity ...
• An exploratory study on the consequences of individual upcycling: is it worth making people feel attached to their upcycled products? 

  Sung, Kyungeun ; Cooper, Tim ; Kettley, Sarah (Conference)

  Product attachment, the emotional bond experienced with a product, is an emerging concept for sustainable production and consumption. The logic behind it is that when people are attached to any product, they are more likely ...
• A review on upcycling: Current body of literature, knowledge gaps and a way forward 

  Kyungeun Sung ; Sung, Kyungeun (Conference)

  Upcycling is a process in which used materials are converted into something of higher value and/or quality in their second life. It has been increasingly recognised as one promising means to reduce material and energy use, ...
• Not one but Many: Photographic Trajectories and the Making of History 

  Wilder, Kelley (Article)

  This essay examines the networks that form an archive using variations on a single photograph from the Thomas Rodger studio of St Andrews. Using the concept of a ‘thick thing’, the essay charts the trajectories of photographs ...
• ‘But That's Just What You Can't Do’: Personal Reflections on the Construction and Management of Identity Following a Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome 

  Limburg, Joanne (Article)

  At 42, I received a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (AS). In this essay, I reflect on what this could mean for my sense of self in the present, and how a retrospective diagnosis of a lifelong condition might also lead me ...
• French Reactions to the 1517 Debate in Theory and Practice 

  Tingle, Elizabeth (Book chapter)
• Recognising the gift of organ and tissue donation: The views and preferences of donor families 

  Walker, Wendy ; Sque, Magi ; Carpenter, Benedict ; Roberts, Suzanne (Technical Report)

  Each year, thousands of lives are transformed in the UK due to the contribution of organ and tissue donors and their families (DH 2008). Honouring the gift of donation was endorsed by the Organ Donation Taskforce (Department ...
• thing-soul 

  Carpenter, Benedict (Book chapter)

  This short chapter addresses the recent work of British sculptor Cathie Pilkington. Her work is discussed in the context of Benjamin's ideas of aura, and Rilke's earlier text On Dolls. These are reframed with reference ...
• Pathological Sensibility 

  Labbe, Jackie (Article)
• Romantic Intertextuality: The Adaptive Weave 

  Labbe, Jackie (Article)

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