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Laurel brake

Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Walter Pater, Print in Transition and Subjugated Knowledges, co-editor of DNCJ (the Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism) online and in print; and of ncse (nineteenth-century serials edition), a free online edition of seven periodicals. She has co-edited recent books on W T Stead and The News of the World. Her interests are broad, but she primarily writes on 19C print culture, media history, gender, and Walter Pater and his work, including ‘Walter Pater and the New Media’ (2018) in Testing New Opinions, edited by Gillard Estrada, Lambert-Charbonnier, and Ribeyrol.

Other recent articles treat Arthur Symons in Volupte, Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance in SWPA (Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism); ‘Writing the Contemporary: Art and News’ in JEPS (Journal of European Periodicals Studies); and ‘George Eliot and Print Media: Woman of Letters’, in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century.  On Arnold, ‘Culture Wars? Arnold’s “Essays in Criticism” and the Rise of Journalism, 1865-1895’ appeared in Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature, edited by Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn. She is currently writing Ink Work on Walter and Clara Pater, and editing an edition of Walter Pater’s journalism for the Collected Works.

 

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Murray Pittock 

Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, where he has held senior roles at Dean to Vice-Principal level since 2008. He directs the University's Early Career Development Programme, chairs the VR/XR Strategy Group,  leads on a number of MoUs and strategic partnership developments  and chaired the Kelvin Hall development. Outside the University, he is on the Board of the National Trust for Scotland and also acts as the Trust's Scottish History Adviser. Cited as 'Scotland's leading public intellectual' (Notre Dame 2014), Murray has appeared on the media in 55 countries. He is currently General Editor of the Edinburgh Collected Works of Allan Ramsay and is writing The Global History of Scotland for Yale.

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