Jonathan Gibson
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Jonathan Gibson
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Senior lecturer in English literature, The Open University, UK
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We are delighted to host Sigrid Nunez at our Letters and Literature conference on the 7th of November. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Francis Young, eloquent and convincing 'In defence of unfashionable scholarship' open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...
In defence of unfashionable scholarship
Sometimes the books that stay on the shelf are the ones that matter
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July 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Calling everyone interested in Letters and Literature: the CFP for our free online OU conference, Letters and Literature 1600-2025, is closing soon! Brilliant keynotes: Mel Evans, Jon McGregor, and Emma Clery. Details at digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/
Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Beginning to wish there was a ‘Radio 3 Uptight’ stream on BBC Sounds
December 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Very taken with ETA Hoffmann’s stories (reading them in connection with ROH Contes d’Hoffmann): more like randomly weird 21st-century fiction than anything from English Romanticism.
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM