Jennifer’s first novel, Digging Up Milton is now available
Podcast – BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time – The Later Romantics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, the tragedy and the idealism of the Later Romantics.
Podcast – Classical sculpture and poetry
Poet in the City podcast. Dr Jennifer Wallace on classical sculpture and poetry.
Wolf Traps
Book Review for The Times Literary Supplement TLS
The Mastery of Non-Mastery
Book Review for LA Review of Books
Archaeology and the Israel-Palestine conflict
Despite the seismic changes occurring throughout the greater Middle East, the Israel-Palestine conflict seems frozen in amber. The politicisation of archaeology by both sides merely reinforces the status quo, or so argues Jennifer Wallace.
Shifting ground in the Holy Land
Archaeology is casting new light on the Old Testament. — Smithsonian Magazine.
Spring in Paris, and revolution’s in the air again
France’s intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports.
Tragedy grapples with gap between human meaningfulness and despair
In following the excavation efforts at Ground Zero, Jennifer Wallace was struck by how we mirror the theatrical tragedy in trying to answer shocking loss with a reminder of the value of those we mourn.
It’s just like undressing a woman
What draws scholars to grubbing around in the dirt under the blazing sun and sifting soil for shards of pottery? To find out, Jennifer Wallace joined an archaeological dig in Israel
Between good and evil
Andre Brink is helping to rear his black maid’s child. Her life, he tells Jennifer Wallace, encapsulates South Africa’s tensions – explored in his new novel.
Academia go f**k yourself
In his latest novel, David Mamet sets his sights on literature teachers and universities, which, he tells Jennifer Wallace, ‘exist independent of any possible utility’.
Deconstructing Gayatri
Can Gayatri Spivak’s ‘pretentiously opaque’ writing make a difference in the real world? Jennifer Wallace talks to an academic who has eaten mice and snakes in rural India.
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