Arts Faculty News

Kevin Foster, Associate Professor in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, has released a new book titled Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire.

Lost Worlds is an illuminating account of how both an imagined and real Latin America has become a privileged, symbolic site for working through the crises of national identity of Britain, the United States and Australia.

“From British adventure fiction to football, from utopian workingman’s colony to the Falkland Islands, this book sensitively explores how the lost worlds of Latin America have served to reimagine and refashion the lost worlds of the English-speaking west.” Professor Noël Valis, Yale University

Published through Pluto Press, UK.

The Iconic Female

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Cover of Numen Old Men

Joseph Gelfer, a PSI Adjunct Research Associate, has a new book in press, “Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy”. Canvassing the mythopoetic, evangelical, and to a lesser extent Catholic men’s movements, “Numen, Old Men” argues that masculine spirituality is little more than a thinly veiled patriarchal spirituality. Gay spirituality is then offered as a form of masculine spirituality which to a large degree resists patriarchal tendencies, suggesting a queering of spirituality could be useful for all men, both gay and straight. For further information visit the Equinox Publishing website.

An insight into the research contained in the book can be seen in a recent article of Gelfer’s – Pray like a man in The Guardian (UK)