CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Crisis ALERT: Attention Crisis, Literature, and Reading Together
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Liverpool Hope University
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  attention; reading; culture; literature

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am a scholar of contemporary literature in English who has been working on a cluster of topics related to literature and attention for the last decade. I have written two books about attention, literature and culture and a number of articles and book chapters on related topics (including focus, carelessness, sleeplessness, etc.). I am hoping to connect with other researchers with interests in attention who would like to respond to the provocation of “attention crisis”, especially in relation to reading.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The project, as it is currently conceived, considers “attention crisis” as a topic of popular concern in the twenty-first century, especially in the ways that attention and reading are connected together through this crisis framing. One strand of the project may involve knowledge co-production with an associate partner charity with interests in shared reading. Other researchers who have been interested in collaborating at this early stage have been thinking about attention memoirs, attention and reading together, and attention and the crisis in the humanities. Other areas that might be covered by the project could include: the relationship between attention crisis, health crisis, and the health humanities (especially framings from disability studies); associations between discourses of attention crisis and the crisis of the humanities (including pedagogy); attention and method (including modes of reading and interpretation); the temporality of attention crisis (and especially the relation between attention, crisis, and the contemporary). If you think your work might fit somewhere in the overlapping space between attention crisis, reading, and the contemporary, or if you think it would expand that space in an interesting direction, please get in touch. It would be especially great to hear from you if you are from what HERA calls a “widening country” or if you work on non-European and non-anglophone contexts.

Alice Bennett

• Organisation: Liverpool Hope University
• Position: Senior Lecturer in English Literature
• E-mail: benneta1@hope.ac.uk
• Web: www.hope.ac.uk/si/dr-alice-bennett.html