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
▪ Under the auspices of Birkbeck’s Material Texts Network, Jonathan Tee and I are co-convening a panel on sound and textuality for the Department of English and Humanities Graduate Lecture Series, on Thursday 22 March 2012. Speakers will be confirmed shortly.
▪ Tom F. Wright (UEA) and I are co-convening the London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar in the Spring term 2012 on the theme of Orality and Literacy, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of Walter Ong’s influential book. Over three Saturdays in January, February, and March 2012, speakers will explore a range of issues relating to the interactions between voice and text in the Anglo-American long nineteenth century: philology and acoustic nostalgia, music and poetic form, laughter, media literacy, and more.
