Interviews / Press

• TLS review essay on the new Penguin Classics translation of Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe (16 December 2022)

• I wrote this review essay for the TLS (6 December 2019), which examines a new intellectual biography of the early Hans Blumenberg, alongside a work by Blumenberg that has recently been published from his archive

  

• I interviewed Steve Kilbey of The Church for The Monthly when he was in London in September 2019

• Podcast interview on Hans Blumenberg and the Theory of Political Myth for the Journal of the History of Ideas, 18 September 2019, part of their five-part forum on Blumenberg and Political Myth

• “How Boris Johnson draws on the past to rule in the present – with a little help from myth”. In The Conversation, 29 July 2019

• “Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit”. In: Texte zur Kunst 28, no. 112 (December 2018), pp. 128-133

• Blogpost written for the Zentrum für Literaturforschung (Berlin) on the place of literary studies in recent work on the history of the humanities, including some analysis of digital humanities and ‘distant reading’

• I interviewed History of the Human Sciences contributor Till Düppe concerning his research on academic economists in the GDR, 20 September 2017

• Interview contributions to the BBC4 television programme Becoming a Lied Singer: Thomas Quastoff and the Art of German Song, 7 July 2017

• Interview on Hans Blumenberg for Farhangemrooz (Iranian journal of philosophy), no. 17, 2017 (original in Persian, with English version)

• “Pramoedya’s Brilliant Bumi Manusia Should be Celebrated More Openly.” The Jakarta Globe, 18 June 2015

• Commentary on the conference Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900, St. John’s College, Cambridge, April 2015

• Interview with Deutschlandfunk (national German radio) about Hans Blumenberg, 9 Feb 2012 (German)

• Conference report on Hans Blumenberg research in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 Feb 2012 (German)

• Extended interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Book Show concerning Ludwig Leichhardt’s influence on Patrick White, 25 Jan 2011