Alice Hall named New Generation Thinker

Posted on 11 June 2013

English Department lecturer Alice Hall has been named as one of ten 2013 New Generation Thinkers by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC.

Alice Hall

The scheme aims to promote the public dissemination of research and to find the broadcasters of the future.

Alice's work focuses on contemporary and global literature. She has research interests in the areas of literature and the body, cultural representations of disability, autobiographical fiction, memory, and medical humanities.

As a New Generation Thinker, Alice will contribute to the development of programmes for BBC Radio and BBC Television Arts. Alice made her first broadcast - about cultural representations of disability after the Paralympics - on BBC Radio 3’s Night Waves on 4th June. She will have the opportunity to feature on the network throughout the year. Alice will also give a talk at Radio 3’s annual Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at the Sage, Gateshead in October.

See also the University's press release and the BBC announcement.