The Queen's College Record 2023
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As part of engaging modern audiences with ancient Mesopotamia, I took part in the<br />
All-Night Epic event, when sold-out performances of the Epic of Gilgamesh ushered<br />
in May Morning. Adapting and reciting Babylonian poetry under the direction of Tim<br />
Supple was an exhilarating experience.<br />
My Faculty post remained busy with teaching, supervising, examining, and committee<br />
work. One happy development was the appointment of two recent doctoral students<br />
to university posts in Marburg and Vienna.<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Peter Robbins (Physiology)<br />
My work has been focussed on some new technology that<br />
we have developed for making better measurements on<br />
patients with respiratory, and in some cases, cardiovascular<br />
disease. Our main publication for the year (https://bit.<br />
ly/3LF2oKl) has detailed the differences between the lungs<br />
of patients who have previously had COVID-19 pneumonia<br />
with those of healthy controls. <strong>The</strong> lungs of the former<br />
appear physiologically older and smaller, but we cannot tell whether these differences<br />
arise as a result of the infection or whether they are simply risk factors for developing<br />
more serious disease. This year has also been a year for establishing new studies<br />
with new collaborations, including work at the Hammersmith hospital in patients with<br />
Pulmonary Hypertension, work at the Royal Berkshire hospital in patients in critical<br />
care with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and at the John Radcliffe hospital<br />
in patients recovering in critical care from heart surgery.<br />
Ritchie Robertson (German, Emeritus)<br />
Since retiring in October 2021, I have been busier than ever<br />
with academic projects, beside sometimes helping to look<br />
after our two-year-old grandson. I have completed a book<br />
entitled Machiavelli and German Political Tragedy which<br />
I hope will be published in 2024. Recently I have published<br />
an article on a Baroque play: ‘Lohenstein’s Sophonisbe: a<br />
vindication of the heroine’, Nordic Journal of Renaissance<br />
Studies, 20 (<strong>2023</strong>), 165-79; and one on a twentieth-century Austrian novelist:<br />
‘Bernhard’s Frost and the philosophy of pessimism’, in Katya Krylova and Ernest<br />
Schonfield (eds.), Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity, Amsterdamer<br />
Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik (Leiden and Boston: Brill, <strong>2023</strong>), pp. 96-105.<br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2023</strong> | <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> 21
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