Judith Pascoe is the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University. Her work focuses on the theatrical, visual and material culture of the British Romantic period. Pascoe has written about theatrical self-representation in the 1790s (Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship, 1997) and about Romantic-era collectors (The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors, 2006). Her third book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice (2011), was the recipient of the Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History. In her most recent book, On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: ‘Wuthering Heights’ in Japan (2017), which she completed as a Guggenheim Fellow, Pascoe wrote about Japanese Brontë adaptations and about foreign language mastery.
Immediately after Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, William Godwin immersed himself in reading her work and came up with his editorial plan for the Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a repository of his love and sorrow. This essay explores how Godwin’s editorial and mourning work were intertwined, and then goes on to discuss the emotive aspects of critical labour in general. The essay addresses how graduation education, long a hotbed of intellectual and emotional entanglement, is being transformed by digital research technologies. The essay ends with a discussion of how Anna Williams’s My Gothic Dissertation (2019), the first podcast dissertation, foregrounds the emotional dynamics of graduate student mentorship and dissertation creation. Continue reading →
