Birkbeck's Centre for Contemporary Literature recently organised a one-day conference titled "Dystopia Now," held at the School of Arts on 26 May 2017. I was really thrilled to be asked to deliver the opening keynote for the conference, alongside Dr Mark Bould who gave the...

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH), which I co-direct with my Birkbeck colleague Dr Martin Paul Eve, has been awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch its open access platform in September 2015. The 3-year award for $741,000 has been made to Birkbeck, University...