The Queen's College Record 2020

Reports and College Activities
Rebecca Beasley (English)
Several articles and my long-term book project were
published this year: a chapter on visual culture in
The New Ezra Pound Studies, ed. Byron (Cambridge
University Press), a chapter on ‘non-translation’ and
internationalism in Modernism and Non-Translation, ed.
Harding and Nash (Oxford University Press), an article
on the teaching of literature at Black Mountain College,
the mid-twentieth century experimental institution near
Asheville, North Carolina, in the journal Modernist Cultures, and Russomania: Russian
Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922 (Oxford University Press).
Since March, though, research has had to be put aside. As Director of Teaching and
Deputy Chair in the Faculty of English, I was in charge of planning and executing
the Faculty’s shift to online teaching and assessment in Trinity 2020, and I am now
working with colleagues across the University on developing the mix of face-to-face
and online teaching that we expect to be delivering in Michaelmas 2020.
John Blair (History)
Since the publication of my major book Building Anglo-
Saxon England in 2018, I have been rounding off various
past commitments and paving the way to new projects.
Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape, the outcome
of a collaborative project funded by the Leverhulme Trust,
appeared in May 2020, and two articles on aspects of
Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement in the Wychwood
region are currently in press. The big landmark for me is
retirement, after nearly forty years as a Tutorial Fellow of Queen’s. I am deeply grateful to
the Governing Body for electing me to an Emeritus Fellowship. This allows me to remain
fully a part of the College community, and gives me the best possible research base to
work towards my projected book on regional diversity in medieval England.
Angus Bowie (Literae Humaniores – emeritus)
After publishing my commentary on Iliad 3 for Cambridge
University Press, I have continued my engagement with
Homer by working on a big commentary on Iliad 21-24
which was commissioned by the Fondazione Lorenzo
Valla in Milan. In this, ignoring the advice that cobblers
should stick to their last, I’m adding to the usual features
of a commentary material that situates Homer’s poetry in
the religious, political and cultural milieu of contemporary
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