News & Events

"The Disaffected offers an intimate view of the American Revolution, as lived by the civilians in and around Philadelphia while they contended with the parties battling for control of the revolutionary capital." - Journal of American History "[A] fascinating look at the plight of a group of Philadelphia civilians known as the 'Disaffected' as they experienced the early days of the Revolution and the British take-over of their city." - Journal of the American Revolution

This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual storytelling. By treating opening titles as complex aesthetic and narrative artefacts, this volume seeks to establish a new interdisciplinary space for the study of title design, inviting scholars to rethink how beginnings shape meaning, memory, and emotional architecture in serial television.

We are currently seeking editorial pieces to be included in our programme for a new production of Arthur Miller's classic play 'The Price' at London's Marylebone Theatre.

2026 marks 90 years since the publication of William Faulkner’s masterwork, Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Widely considered the greatest Southern novel of all time and among the most influential literary works of the twentieth century, the ninth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium celebrates Absalom, Absalom!’s incalculable influence upon global literature.

"The problem of geoaesthetics is explored in Tangential Terrains in meticulous individual analyses and close readings. Heine combines an extremely high theoretical level with precise philological work. If there is to be anything like an inorganic turn in literary studies in the near future, this book will play a major role in it." —Wolfgang Hottner, associate professor in comparative literature, University of Bergen, Norway, author of Crystallizations: Aesthetics and Poetics of the Inorganic in the late 18th Century

2025 Best Single Author Book, Midwest Popular Culture Association 2025 Longlist, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association "Grady does a very good job detailing the trajectory of the comic Western genre...Unlike some books from higher education sources Grady does not go overboard with acadamese. The book remains readable and entertaining and educational." - Daily Cartoonist