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Academics in Fiction: Colonialism, Exoticism and Lovecraft’s Professors TIM MOORSOM Few horror writers have had such a profound effect on culture as H. P. Lovecraft. While Stephen King or George R. R. Martin are better known, Lovecraft’s fingerprints, or perhaps
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
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
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