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Autobiography – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 19

December 14, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastautobiography, laura marcus, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Laura Marcus introduces one of the most popular written forms, the autobiography, form that offers understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived and fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.

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Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Marcus has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, with books on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, modernist writing and literature and film.

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The Immune System – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 18

December 10, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastpaul klenerman, the immune system, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Paul Klenerman introduces the immune system, central to all human health and area of continual focus in medical research.

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Paul Klenerman is Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. He is also Immune Theme Lead at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.

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Children’s Literature – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 17

December 7, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastchildrens literature, kimberley reynolds, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Kimberly Reynolds introduces children’s literature, which not only encompasses picture books, pop-ups, and novels, but has modernised to also include online games and eBooks.

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Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children’s Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. She was President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2003 – 2007).

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Russian Literature – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 16

December 3, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastalexander pushkin, catriona kelly, russian literature, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Catriona Kelly introduces Russian literature centred around the figure of Alexander Pushkin that permeates into national culture.

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Catriona Kelly is a Professor of Russian, University of Oxford and Fellow of New College and Lecturerer at Merton College.

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The Holy Roman Empire – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 15

November 30, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastthe holy roman empire, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Joachim Whaley introduces the Holy Roman Empire, once described by Voltaire as ‘neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire’, as its history and significance is often misunderstood.

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Joachim Whaley is Professor of German History and Thought at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books on religious toleration in early modern Germany and on the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period, all of which have been translated into German. He has written numerous articles on the religious and intellectual history of the German lands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.

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