Roger Luckhurst on superstition for Times Higher Education
Professor Roger Luckhurst describes his research into superstition for Times Higher Education.
Professor Roger Luckhurst describes his research into superstition for Times Higher Education.
In a recent article for Times Higher Education Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, outlines his work on the cultural history of the "mummy curse" in the late Victorian and Edwardian period.
As a research Fellow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Roger gives a passionate defence for the value of research in the humanities at a time when most government funding for disciplines within this field has been pulled.
He explains that, far from being frivolous, his own research sheds light on Britain’s ambivalence towards the occupation of Egypt after 1882 and has relevance today as it helps us to consider and understand the West’s response to the “Arab Spring” earlier this year.
You can read the full article in Times Higher Education here.