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Academic investigates new phenomenon
Dr Lucy Bell has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to investigate the Latin American phenomenon of ‘editoriales cartoneras’ (translated as ‘waste-picking publishers’ or ‘cardboard publisher’).
Editoriales cartoneras are small independent publishing projects which make books out of recycled cardboard and sell them at reduced prices, helping to increase access to literature in countries where books tend to be unaffordable.
Working in collaboration with anthropologist Dr Alex Flynn from the University of Durham, Dr Bell will examine how the practice has forged new local and global literary communities.
Do lads’ mags normalise sexism?
A team of leading social psychologists, led by Surrey’s Professor Tim Hegarty, has investigated the use of sexism in lads’ mags.
While editors of men’s magazines have long claimed that using sexist humour is harmless because male readers perceive it as ironic, the latest research refutes this idea. In a study of 81 UK men aged between 18 and 50, participants were presented with sexist jokes both in and out of a lads’ mag context. Young men in particular considered the jokes less hostile when they were in a lads’ mag.
In a second study in the US, 274 students were asked to identify which of a group of quotations had appeared in lads’ mags and which had been used by convicted rapists. Having correctly identified only half of the quotations, the men were subsequently more likely to reject these magazines.
Women and pre-Conquest literature
Surrey’s Professor of Medieval Literature has been awarded a major research fellowship from the prestigious Leverhulme Trust to examine the literary culture of women before the Norman Conquest.
Professor Diana Watt is one of only 33 academics to win such an award from across the country. Her project, ‘Women’s Literary Culture Before the Conquest’, will help provide a better understanding of this oſten overlooked period of English literary history and how it has helped form our rich cultural heritage.
The fellowship will enable Professor Watt to visit a number of archives across Europe to examine in detail original manuscripts and to source further information on this era.
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