Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame, by H. J. Jackson
Why do some literary works enjoy long afterlives, while other disappear from the ‘canon’? Jane Darcy finds out
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Open Source Architecture, by Carlo Ratti with Matthew Claudel
This manifesto calls for a radical rethink of the relationship between producer and consumer of the built environment, writes Flora Samuel
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Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers, 1990-2014, by Freeman J. Dyson
A gifted scientific essayist’s anecdotes about faith, friends and physicists delight Graham Farmelo
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Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, by Anahid Nersessian
Uttara Natarajan on a moral, informative and entertaining study
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch
Neil Gregor extols a timely and cogent investigation
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A Cinderella story for early career academics
Once upon a time there was an adjunct lecturer…By Nicholas Rowe
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If I were v-c for a day...
From tackling pay to decrees on sleep and email curfews, five scholars explain what they would do to improve the academy in 24 hours
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Peter Cochran, 1944-2015
An independent scholar who became one of the world’s leading authorities on Lord Byron has died
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Q&A with Richard Buckley
We speak to the man who led the discovery of Richard III’s final resting place
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Hours, yours and mine
Hourly paid lecturers at Reading find further confirmation of teaching assistants’ unpaid overtime, and call for dialogue on procedures and expectations
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Overseas alma maters give, hoping one day to receive
International alumni outreach efforts are on the rise as institutions expand fundraising horizons
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UK’s financial focus on China will cost it in the long term
Mike Gow laments Britain’s pursuit of revenues over development of cultural understanding
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World in brief – 11 June 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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Campus close-up: University of St Andrews
Scottish institution strengthens its identity as a centre for singing and languages with pioneering new course
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Lost and found: echoes of Britain’s black voices
Alan Rice on writers and artists who are inspired by reimagining, re-enacting and creating anew the identities and histories of the UK’s African diaspora