WHO’S HERE?
A brief introduction to fellows joining CRASSH this Easter Term.
Feel free to contact our fellows and join our weekly Research Practice Seminars. Visit our Fellowships Programme page to find out how to become a Fellow at CRASSH.
Lanlan Du
Lanlan is Global Humanities Mobility Scheme Visiting Fellow at CRASSH and will be working on her project ‘Intermediality Studies on Climate Change Speculative Fiction’.
Michael Franklin
During his Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH, Michael will examine how competing values and valuation tools are changing the ways creative risk is assessed and balanced in the art of cinema, thus influencing which films are made.
- Michael will convene the Research Practice Seminar ‘Fieldwork options for interpreting engagement with algorithms across cultural settings‘ on 9 May 2024
Mohammad Mozahidul Islam
Mohammad is a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, and during his stay he will work on strategies and counterforces in environmental activism in Bangladesh.
- Mohammad will convene the Research Practice Seminar ‘Strategies and counter-strategies of environmental activism in Bangladesh: why certain movements succeed while others fail?‘ on 2 May 2024
Yuqin Jiang
Yuqin is a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH who’s research primarily focuses on cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities and science fiction studies, postcolonial literature studies, and cultural theory studies.
- Yuqin will convene the Research Practice Seminar ‘‘The First Thread’ of Dark Ecology‘ on 16 May 2024
Philip Knox
Philip is Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy. While at CRASSH, he will be thinking in new ways about the relationship between late medieval literature and late medieval philosophy by exploring the writings of the London scrivener Thomas Usk.
- Philip convened the Research Practice Seminar ‘Reading the sociology of reading for a history of reading‘ on 25 April 2024
Tobias Müller
Tobias is CRASSH’s Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and will be working on a project entitled ‘Democratic Futures: Climate Change, Coloniality and State Legitimacy’.
William Selinger
William is Quentin Skinner Fellow at CRASSH, and his research focuses on the modern history of representative democracy.
- William will deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture: Love and despotism in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters on 7 June 2024
In addition, Visitors Linn Holmberg, Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Warawoot Chuangchai are still with us this term.
