Ben Bateman – Novel Dialogue

13. Inventing an Archive

One of the first things marginalized researchers in the humanities discover is that the choices about who and what materials are important enough to include in archives, and how that material will be presented, actively works to nullify non-whiteness and queerness.

3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takesContinue reading “3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)”