The Queen's College Record 2020

and was published in June: Rilke: The Life of the Work.
It turned out to be an embarrassingly long book, though
that at least helped me understand why it had taken
me so long to write. What time was left was largely
swallowed up by the demands of the coronavirus, which
has destroyed the vital division between term time and
vacation and so made research more difficult than usual.
But I have gone back to an old project, which is to
translate the entirety of the letters of Friedrich Hölderlin.
I have already done a good selection of them; they
appeared together with his essays in 2009, but no complete edition exists in English,
unlike in French, Italian and I expect other languages too. And translating was a good
way to spend the early mornings of lockdown in the 250th year since Hölderlin’s
birth. Otherwise, I published various small things on Rilke, including a piece on his
late poems about gongs, which appeared in a book exploring Rilke’s relationship with
music: ‘Zu Rilkes Gong-Gedichten’, in Rilkes Musikalität, ed. by Thomas Martinec
(Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2019). This coming year, I am looking forward (a manner of
speaking) to serving as the College’s Tutor for Undergraduates.
Reports and College Activities
Viktor Marinkov (Economics)
In 2020 I was awarded a grant from the UK’s Money
Macro and Finance Society (MMF) for organising and
hosting a high-profile economics conference at the
University of Oxford. The conference will be on the topic
of ‘What have we learned about the macroeconomic
effect of forward guidance?’ and will take place in 2021
featuring international experts from both academia and
policymaking. Forward guidance is a novel monetary
policy tool that central banks began using since the financial crisis and one that I have
focused on in my own research.
Kinan Muhammed (Medicine)
I started at Queen’s in 2019 as an Extraordinary Junior
Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences. Since joining
the College, I have continued with my clinical work in
neurology and research in cognitive neurosciences.
This academic year I contributed to publications
in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, Cortex,
Neuropsychologia and Brain focusing on neural
mechanisms of motivation and memory in neurological
diseases. Outside of my clinical and academic work, I gained a place on the first
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