Reading Breath in Literature

Centre for Comparative Literature University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada  

Department of English University of Exeter Cornwall, UK I joined the Department of English at the University of Exeter in 2014, having previously taught at Lancaster University and the University of Manchester where I completed my PhD in 2013. My main research interests include the works of John Milton, seventeenth-century religious lyric and affect, and the relationship between emotions and breath in the early modern period.

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Department of English Studies Durham University Durham, UK   Corinne Saunders is Professor in the Department of English Studies. She specialises in medieval literature and the history of ideas, and has particular interests in romance writing and in medical humanities. Her current research is on mind, body and affect in medieval literature and thought. She is a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded project Hearing the Voice and Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust project Life of Breath. She is Co-Director of the Durham University's Centre for Medical Humanities.  Her most recent monograph is Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval Romance(2010), for which she was awarded AHRC-funded additional leave and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She is the author of The Forest of Medieval Romance (1993), Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England(2001), and over forty essays and articles on a wide range of literary and cultural topics. She has edited a Blackwell Critical Guide to Chaucer (2001); A Blackwell Companion to Romance: from Classical to Contemporary (2004); Cultural Encounters in Medieval Romance (2005); A Concise Companion to Chaucer(2006); and (with Françoise le Saux and Neil Thomas) Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses (2004); (with Jane Macnaughton), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (2005); (with David Fuller) Pearl: a Modernised Version by Victor Watts (2005); (with Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton), The Body and the Arts (2009); A Blackwell Companion to Medieval Poetry (2010); (with Jane Macnaughton and David Fuller) The Recovery of Beauty (2015); (with Frank Brandsma and Carolyne Larrington) Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015); and (with Jamie McKinstry) a special issue of postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 'Medievalism and Medical Humanities'. She is the English editor of the international journal of medieval studies, Medium Ævum. She has co-organised three Public Lecture Series in the University, ‘Madness and Creativity: The Mind, Medicine and Literature’, ‘Flesh and Blood: The Body and the Arts’, and The Recovery of Beauty (all published by Palgrave Macmillan). She teaches across the range of Old and Middle English language and literature, as well as History of the English Language, Old French, and some Renaissance topics, at both BA and MA level. She currently supervises a number of PhD students working on later medieval literary topics, particularly romance writing, and welcomes enquiries from postgraduate applicants in these areas.

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Department of English Studies Durham University Durham, UK Peter Garratt joined the English Department in 2013. He holds a Masters and PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from Durham. He is the author of Victorian Empiricism (2010) and the editor of The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (2016). Peter has interests in Victorian fiction and non-fiction, especially George Eliot and Ruskin, and also nineteenth-century philosophy and science. Current projects include a study of realist narrative and the science of mind, exploring the historical development of the cognitive sciences and their intersections with literary culture. In connection with this, Peter was Principal Investigator on the AHRC network, Cognitive Futures in the Humanities (2012-14), a project bringing together leading international figures from philosophy, linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science to examine how the arts and humanities might respond to the 'cognitive revolution'. He is now a Co-Investigator on a major new project, 'A History of Distributed Cognition', funded by an AHRC standard grant (2014-18). A collaboration between Edinburgh, Stirling and Durham universities, involving Classics, Philosophy and English, it looks at external and environmental aspects of the thinking self from antiquity to the modern period--or, as one might put it, the mind beyond the brain (and the mind beyond the skull and skin).  Peter was the lead researcher on the British Academy-funded project, 'Making A Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment, 1820-1840' (2013). He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2014-18), and an executive committee member of the British Society for Literature and Science. He is part of the interdisciplinary research team on Durham's Hearing the Voice project, an investigation into voice-hearing funded by a 5-year Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science Collaborative Award and hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities. Peter is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the British Association of Victorian Studies, the North American Victorian Studies Association, and the American Comparative Literature Association, and he has given keynote lectures in Vienna and Helsinki.

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