College of Humanities
The College of Humanities is rated among the top 100 universities for the study of arts and humanities in the world, and is one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching across our diverse range of subjects, reflecting all aspects of human experience, culture and creativity through disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. For more information, please visit http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk
Recent Submissions
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Limestone and the literary imagination: a world-ecological comparison of John Cowper Powys and Kamau Brathwaite
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How is the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) used in practice?
(SAGE Publications, 2020)We analyze the use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), an instrument that is widely used in diagnosing and determining the severity of depression. Using conversation analysis, we show how the doctor deploys the ... -
Performing "imitatio": Bruscambille’s prologues and Cesare Rao’s "Lettres facetieuses" (1584)
(Librairie Droz, 2020)The comic actor known as Bruscambille (fl. 1608-34), who performed and published theatrical prologues in early seventeenth-century France, drew on a range of sources for his best-selling works. In the dedication to one ... -
Hellenic Romans and Barbaric Macedonians: Polybius on Hellenism and Changing Hegemonic Powers
(Ancient History Bulletin, 2020)This article explores the relationship between the Greeks, Macedonians and Romans through the prism of Polybius of Megalopolis and his Histories in the second century BC. It throws light on how a Greek might control and ... -
The age of attraction: Age, gender and the history of modern male homosexuality
(Wiley, 12 July 2019)This article presents a new account of the construction of the modern male homosexual within late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century sexual scientific networks in Britain and Germany. It argues that the construction ...