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Devon (2025)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (in press). Devon. In J. Moran (Ed.), Sean O'Casey in Context. Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Genre and Language Change (2025)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. (in press). Genre and Language Change. In H. Nesi, & P. Milin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. (Third edition). Elsevier

This chapter provides an overview of the notion of genre and discusses its role in language change. Some terminological complexities are addressed, followed by an overview of different conceptualisations of the notion of genre in various research tra... Read More about Genre and Language Change.

Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence (2025)
Journal Article
Eriksen, M. H., Olley, K. M., Marshall, B., & Tollefsen, E. (2025). Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325000125

Pregnancy encompasses core socio-political issues: kinship, demography, religion, gender and more. In any society, the ontology of the pregnant body and the embryo-fetus holds core existential concerns. Is a pregnant body one or two beings? When does... Read More about Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence.

The poetics of sexual violence in three African-American women’s neo-slave narratives: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (2025)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. (2025). The poetics of sexual violence in three African-American women’s neo-slave narratives: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Journal of Literary Semantics, 54(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2025-2002

This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employ... Read More about The poetics of sexual violence in three African-American women’s neo-slave narratives: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Intermediality (2025)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. Intermediality. In B. Kent, & D. Kornhaber (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre. Cambridge University Press