About the Blog

On our blog, we publish six kinds of post:

  • Liberate Opinion! These are posts exploring topic events, current affairs or big issues from a Liberal Arts perspective.
  • Liberate Essay! These are longer posts offering detailed commentary from a Liberal Arts perspective.
  • Liberate Create! Creative work inspired by the Liberal Arts.
  • Liberate Reflection! These are posts about what is happening on the course.
  • Liberate Review! You can probably guess what these posts are about.

Editors

Dr Adam James Smith
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Adam is a lecturer in English Literature and Liberal Arts. He’s Course Leader on the Liberal Arts programme and oversees the blog. Adam’s research is on political print culture during the long eighteenth century, though he is also known to be interested in the history of cheap print (comic books) and popular culture more generally (films and TV).

James Booth (History), Editor of ‘Liberate Essay!’

Will Swift (Literature), Editor of ‘Liberate Opinion!’

Mike Adair (Media), Editor of ‘Liberate Review!’

Sam Davis (Creative Writing) and Julia Jagus (Japanese and TESOL), Editor of ‘Liberate Create’

Blog Staffers

Julia Jagus (Japanese and TESOL)

Ellis Wilson (Religion, Philosophy and Ethics)

Jack Flannery (Spanish with Japanese)

Tom Cawley (Criminology)

Josh Ambridge (Creative Writing)

Shelbie Waters (Literature)

Josh Renyard (Media)

Nicole Thurston (Environmental Geography)

Jon George (History)