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Humanities Book Launch 2019

Session 1:left to right: Dr James Poskett, Dr Yvette Hutchinson, Dr Michela Coletta, Prof Thomas Docherty, Dr Birgit Breidenbach

Book Launch Group 1

Dr James Poskett - History; Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920 with University of Chicago Press

(May 2019)

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo38181419.html

Dr Yvette Hutchison – Theatre and Performance Studies; African Theatre 17: Contemporary Dance.

Woodbridge: James Currey/ Boydell & Brewer Inc. (Nov), Co-editing with Chukwuma Okoye (Nov 2018)

Contemporary Plays by African Women. Methuen (Co-editing with Amy Jephta) (28 Jan 2019)

Dr Michela Coletta - SMLC; Decadent Modernity: Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920, Liverpool University Press (October 2018)

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781786941312/

Professor Thomas Docherty - English; Political English: Language and the Decay of Politics, Bloomsbury Press

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/political-english-9781350101395/

Professor Thomas Docherty and Dr Birgit Breidenbach; Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories, Routledge

 https://www.routledge.com/Mood-Interdisciplinary-Perspectives-New-Theories-1st-Edition/Breidenbach-Docherty/p/book/9780367200664

Session 2:left to right: Dr Theodora Hadjimichael, Dr Alessandra De Martino Cappuccio, Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, Prof Zahra Newby

Dr Theodora Hadjimichael, Dr Alessandra De Martino Cappuccio, Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, Prof Zahra Newby

Dr Simon Peplow - History; Race and riots in Thatcher’s Britain, MUP (Jan 2019) (not pictured)

 http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526125286/

Dr Theodora Hadjimichael - IAS and Department of Classics and Ancient History; The Emergence of the Lyric Canon, OUP (April 2019)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-emergence-of-the-lyric-canon-9780198810865?q=Hadjimichael&lang=en&cc=gb

Dr Alessandra De Martino Cappuccio - SMLC; Diversità sulla scena Accademia University Press, Turin (2018)

co-editor with Paolo Puppa Emeritus Professor (University Ca’ Foscari), and Dr Paola Toninato (Warwick). A collection 11 essays in Italian.

https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/diversita-scena-accademia-university-press/libro/9788899982775

Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen – Culture and Media Policy Studies

Remembering British Television: Audience, Archive and Industry by Joanne Garde-Hansen and Kristyn Gorton, Bloomsbury (March 2019)

https://bloomsbury.com/uk/remembering-british-television-9781844576616/

Professor Zahra Newby – Classics and Ancient History; Newby and R. E. Toulson eds., The Materiality of Mourning, Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. 2018

https://www.routledge.com/The-Materiality-of-Mourning-Cross-disciplinary-Perspectives/Newby-Toulon/p/book/9780815356639

Session 3:left to right: Dr Maria Pavlova, Dr John T. Gilmore, Dr Caroline Petit, Prof Rebecca Earle, Dr Douglas Morrey

Dr Maria Pavlova, Dr John T. Gilmore, Dr Caroline Petit, Prof Rebecca Earle, Dr Douglas Morrey

Dr Maria Pavlova - SMLC; 'Dreaming again on things already dreamed'. 500 Years of Orlando Furioso

Oxford: Peter Lang (2019), ed. by M. Dorigatti and M. Pavlova

 https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64510

Dr John T. Gilmore - English; Guillaume Massieu, Coffee: A Poem, translated and introduced by John T. Gilmore.

Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2019. (1 August 2019.)

ISBNs:978 1910345 79 5 (pbk); 978 1910345 80 1 (hbk); 978 1910345 81 8 (ebk)

Dr Caroline Petit – Classics and Ancient History

Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome, Brill (Sept 2018)

https://brill.com/view/title/38707

Professor Rebecca Earle – History; Potato, Bloomsbury (March 2019)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/potato-9781501344336/

Dr Douglas Morrey – French Studies; The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema, Bloomsbury (Summer 2019)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-legacy-of-the-new-wave-in-french-cinema-9781501311949/