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Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect

Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect

Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect VICTORIA ADDIS The academic book review has long had a status issue. With the advent in the U.K., of the Research Excellence Framework, a process of research assessment that has inevitably reshaped ideas of what

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Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler

Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler

Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler VICTORIA ADDIS Henrick Ibsen’s 1890 play, Hedda Gabler (first performed in Munich in 1891), provides us with not one but with two academic characters: the new husband of the eponymous Hedda Gabler, George Tesman, and

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Reading Outside Your Discipline: How Reading Widely Can Supercharge Your Research

Reading Outside Your Discipline: How Reading Widely Can Supercharge Your Research

Reading Outside Your Discipline: How Reading Widely Can Supercharge Your Research VICTORIA ADDIS Why should a physicist read about fossils or a literary historian pick up a book on gravitational waves? At the center of our ethos at AC Review

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The Poetry and Music of Science: Interview with Tom McLeish

The Poetry and Music of Science: Interview with Tom McLeish

The Poetry and Music of Science: Interview with Tom McLeish VICTORIA ADDIS Tom McLeish is Professor of Natural Philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of York. He has a background in theoretical physics, and made his name

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Bad Environmentalism: Interview with Nicole Seymour

Bad Environmentalism: Interview with Nicole Seymour

Bad Environmentalism: Interview with Nicole Seymour VICTORIA ADDIS Nicole Seymour is an Associate Professor in the department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguisitics at California State University, Fullerton. Her first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

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