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Investigating Reproductive Abuse Depictions in Contemporary Media

By Bloomsbury Admin | October 24, 2025

In this article, Rebecca Siddall explores the ways in which reproductive abuse is presented in contemporary media, including films, television, and social media.

Turning to Charity: British Shell-Shocked Veteran

By Bloomsbury Admin | September 15, 2025

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My thesis, ‘Returning from the Battlefield: Shell-Shocked Servicemen throughout Britain and Australia, 1914-1918′ aims to bring to light the shared lives of the mentally disabled veterans and their families, who struggled with the consequences of their loved one’s disability after the Great War.

Representation and reception of autistic characters in children’s picturebooks

By Bloomsbury Admin | August 29, 2025

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Over the last 3 years, I have been researching the representation and reception of autistic characters in children’s picturebooks. This is a passion project, bourne out of frustration. Years of struggling to find suitable picturebooks to support my own autistic daughter (now aged 23), the children who I teach and the families who visit my bookshop, resulted in determination to improve the situation.

Beyond the Label: Finding the Human Story in Addiction and Recovery Memoirs

By Bloomsbury Admin | July 10, 2025

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Through an examination of memoirs that engage with different discourses of addiction, the research seeks to uncover ways in which the medicalised standpoint and other discourses impact the agency of the author as they recreate their experiences with addiction and recovery.

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

By Bloomsbury Admin | June 30, 2025

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The ‘redemptive’ is essentially a broadening of possibility for hybrid textual endeavours; it is found in texts that are characterised by a generative approach to difference and to point of view.

Rewriting Schizophrenia: How Memoirs Challenge Medical Narratives

By Bloomsbury Admin | May 14, 2025

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My research envisages a comprehensive examination of the epistemic ripples created by the memoirs in the dominant scholarship concerning schizophrenia. It hopes to accentuate the voices of the otherwise marginalised patients, effectively reclaiming their agency over the self, language, and knowledge.

The hunt for multilingualism in literature

By Bloomsbury Admin | April 23, 2025

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The ongoing occlusion of multilingual literariness , and multilingual aesthetics generally, has never resulted from absent public demand, just insufficiently effective demand—the difference being one of late capitalism’s lasting tragedies.

Life Reflected in Object Lessons

By Bloomsbury Admin | April 21, 2025

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I have lived aboard a 48-foot-long- canal boat named Ethel the Unready for the last four years, and have loved the Object Lessons series since I discovered it. I see myself reflected in Object Lessons; there is a book, a philosophy, or a fact for almost every part of my life.

What Should We Do With Jack Kerouac?

By Bloomsbury Admin | March 3, 2025

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Jack Kerouac is a polarizing figure. On the one hand, you must admire his dedication to the craft of writing. He is the consummate stylist, concerned with capturing thoughts, feelings, and memories with his inspirational “spontaneous prose.”

Finding British and Indian Women’s Encounters in the Colonial Archive

By Bloomsbury Admin | October 16, 2024

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Welcome to our Research Spotlight series, where we invite postgraduate researchers and early career researchers to submit short-form articles that sheds light on their research to highlight fresh scholarship specifically on underrepresented research areas in an effort to stay abreast with new voices in the humanities. In this article, Tarini Bhamburkar illustrates how periodicals are… Read More »