James Emmott is a postgraduate research student in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is completing his PhD on nineteenth-century understandings of composite form in the arts and sciences of the voice and the face, supported by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Current Projects

Tom F. Wright (UEA) and I are co-convening a seminar for the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, as part of the Orality and Literacy series of talks, featuring Garrett Stewart (Iowa) and Matthew Rubery (QMUL), on Thursday 7 June, 6.00–9.00 pm, in the Keynes Library (Room 114, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD). Free; all welcome.