Research Resources
A growing bank of materials for anyone interested in authorship. 1. View our growing collaborative authorship project as it develops: 2. View the bibliography on fame, celebrity and literary celebrity emerging […]
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Forum
What does it mean to ‘be’ an author in different media and institutional contexts? How are authors ‘made’ and do they ‘travel’ well? Might the term ‘collective authorship’ accurately reflect contemporary editing […]
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Publications
Find out what we have produced so far and where to read it. Recent postings include a special issue of Seminar on World Authorship and German Literature; a photo book of […]
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Events
Multilingual Digital Authorship Symposium, 8-9 March 2018, Lancaster University The World Wide Web is commonly perceived the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms such as Google and Facebook […]
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Related Projects
Our site posts numerous links to other organisations and to events exploring literary celebrity and authorship. Other organisations important to our projects include The Oxford Celebrity Network and The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS). […]
Literary Lives
How do authors ‘embody’ literature, in their biographical person as well as in their literary texts? What does it mean to ‘be’ an author in different media and institutional contexts? […]
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World Authorship
How do authors ‘circulate’ throughout world literature? Can their image, as well as their text, be translated? Click here to read our posts on World Authors. What is […]
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Multimodal Creativity
How do we make use of a range of creative modes, including the non-linguistic – writing, drawing and other images, objects, music, gesture? One of our first major discussions of this […]
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Celebrity
To what extent is ‘literary celebrity’ a product of the contemporary Western world? What do authors have to do with architecture? Can anyone be a famous author in the age […]
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Translation
What happens when an author writes in different languages, how do translators relate to authors, and can authorship ever be a truly collective process? Click here to read a larger […]
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The Digital
What role do the new media and interactive technologies have in shaping authors’ careers and their writing? How do authors themselves shape digital media? How do such media alter the […]
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