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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.

Womb Politics: The pregnant body and archaeologies of absence (2025)
Journal Article
Eriksen, M. H., Olley, K. M., Marshall, B., & Tollefsen, E. (in press). Womb Politics: The pregnant body and archaeologies of absence. Cambridge Archaeological Journal,

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 conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (2025). The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00119.cot

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion (Statista 2023). While social media allows one to co... Read More about The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

British India in the 1850s (2025)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2025). British India in the 1850s. In G. Marshall (Ed.), Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1850s (225-249). Cambridge University Press

Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement (2025)
Journal Article
Baker, J., Carroll, J., & Kilby, S. (2025). Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement. Journal of the English Place‑Name Society, 55, 88–103

The purpose of this paper is to celebrate the long-standing partnership between the Survey of English Place-Names and local communities, to recognise the great debt the Survey owes for the work of volunteers over the last hundred years, and to reflec... Read More about Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement.

Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals (2025)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2025). Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals. Women's Writing, 32(1), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2447192

This article provides a literary linguistic analysis of narrative viewpoint in a selection of eighteenth-century midwifery manuals. The eighteenth century is when the medicalisation of childbirth gained pace and the obstetric surgeon (known as the “... Read More about Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals.

‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George (2024)
Journal Article
Sutherland, L. (2024). ‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George. Critical Quarterly, 66(4), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12810

Sunday in the Park With George (Sunday) was a pivotal piece of work for Stephen Sondheim, written in the early 80s, at a time when he broke away from Broadway production processes to work in the nonprofit sector, developing this musical with James La... Read More about ‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George.