Professor Michael Levine, University of Western Australia University College October – December 2013
Michael Levine is Winthrop Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. His scholarly interests are diverse and interdisciplinary. Current projects include research in aesthetics, philosophy and architecture; catastrophe, ethics and the built environment; the academic virtues and their place in the modern university; regret and other emotions of self-assessment; and philosophy and museums for which he presented a paper at the Royal Institute of Philosophy conference in Glasgow (2013) on Museums and the Nostalgic Self.
Professor Levine has taught at the universities of Virginia, Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College and has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Baruch College and the University of Colorado. He was a Fulbright fellow in Russia and has received numerous fellowships and grants including, among others, support from the Rockefeller Foundation; the Mellon Foundation; the Japan Foundation; Indian Council for Cultural Relations Fellowship; Hugh Le May Fellowship; Australian Academy of Humanities/Social Science; and the Australian Research Council.
He is widely published in journals and edited volumes and is the author of Pantheism: A Non theistic Concept of Deity (Routledge 1997) and Hume and the Problem of Miracles (Kluwer 1989). He is co-author of Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (Blackwell 2012); Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture (Routledge 2011); and War (2013 forthcoming). He is co-editor of Leadership and Ethics (forthcoming).
While at the IAS Professor Levine will be working on a project on catastrophe, ethics and the built environment. This project provides a framework for the re-evaluation of civil society in relation to the built environment. It discovers how cities, urban planning and architecture engage values and practices aimed at insuring inclusiveness, egalitarianism and freedom of choice. The project identifies broad concerns for cities and civic institutions. What becomes of inclusiveness, egalitarianism, freedom of choice and a range of other democratic or Utopian ideals in the face of catastrophe?
Professor Tom Mole, University of Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s Society October – December 2013
Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He is a literary critic and cultural historian specializing in the Romantic period in Britain, especially Lord Byron. His research focuses on three areas: the cultural history of celebrity, print culture and book history, and reception history. His monograph, Byron’s Romantic Celebrity (Palgrave 2007), won the Elma Dangerfield prize from the International Byron Society. His work on Byron has also appeared in the Byron Journal, the Keats-Shelley Journal, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
He edited Romanticism and Celebrity Culture (Cambridge University Press 2009, paperback 2012), which brings together twelve contributors to assemble the most complete account of Romantic celebrity available. He has also published on celebrity in cultural-studies journals such as M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture and The International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Professor Mole has a well-developed interest in periodical writing of the Romantic period. He edited a volume of reviews from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine for a six- volume selected edition (Pickering and Chatto 2006), and has published essays on reviewing in Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine (Palgrave 2013) and the European Romantic Review.
He is the Principal Investigator of the Interacting with Print Research Group, which aims to elaborate an innovative approach to the study of print culture in Europe from 1700 to 1900.
Professor Mole is an associate editor for the Byron Journal, a member of the board of the Centre for Romantic Studies at the University of Bristol, and a member of the publications review committee of McGill-Queen’s University Press. At the IAS, he will be researching the reception of Romantic authors in Victorian Britain, paying particular attention to understudied practices of citation, appropriation and redeployment, and to commodified or remediated sites of reception, such as illustrated editions, anthologies, statues and photographs.
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