Literary Studies Deconstructed: A Polemic, by Catherine Butler Richard Bradford shares an author’s infuriation that the ‘mongrel subject’ of literary studies fails to reflect real-life talk about literature By Richard Bradford 18 October
Academic literary biography should revive the author Scholars should not be walled off from mainstream biography’s playground of unlicensed fun, says Richard Bradford By Richard Bradford 11 October
Is Shakespeare any good? It’s time for literature teaching and research to address how to distinguish quality writing, argues Richard Bradford By Richard Bradford 12 November
The criminal neglect of detective fiction Why does the academy treat the genre so disrespectfully? Richard Bradford investigates By Richard Bradford 4 June
