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Woman’s Hour

As part of BBC Radio 4's Mars Season in March 2017, I was invited onto Woman's Hour for a live broadcast about "Women on Mars." Having featured in the documentary "A New Red World" produced by Mark Burman and presented by Ken Hollings, I was really thrilled to...

BBC R4 Documentary

I was delighted to be involved in the making of a documentary for BBC Radio 4 on the subject of Martian utopias. Broadcast in March 2017 as part of Radio 4's Mars Season, the documentary — titled "A New Red World" — featured several clips in which I discussed how the...

A Scanner Darkly Feb24

A Scanner Darkly

I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion and screening of Richard Linklater's 2006 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's classic novel, A Scanner Darkly (1977). The event was organised by the Vasari Research Centre for Art & Technology as part of their Digital...

RA Review Feb15

RA Review

Review of the Royal Academy’s new exhibition, “Revolution, Russian Art 1917-1932” This review originally appeared on the Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities staff blog (click here to view the original post). One hundred years after the Russian Revolution of 1917,...

BBC Radio 3 Nov30

BBC Radio 3

I was recently invited onto BBC Radio 3's late-night programme "Free Thinking" to take part in a live broadcast discussing the literary Weird. Since co-editing an essay collection on China Miéville, China Miéville: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015), I've been...