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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
Who We Are
‘Authors and the World’ is a collaboration between researchers in the departments of Languages & Cultures, English & Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Contemporary Arts (LICA) at Lancaster University. We actively encourage the input of creative writers, translators, and industry professionals. Our aim is to interrogate the literary, social, political, linguistic, and historical significance of the author as a cultural artefact and a producer of literary texts.
What We Do
Our work is carried out in academic symposia, practice-focused workshops, and ongoing online debate and artistic experimentation. By pooling different disciplinary approaches to related phenomena such as celebrity, gender, multilingualism, political protest, intellectual communities, and cultural mediation, we show how the study of authors can act as a conduit for exploring the very nature of culture and its associated industries around the world.
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? […]
continue reading →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 […]
continue reading →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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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 […]
continue reading →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 […]
continue reading →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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