Creative and Critical Approaches to Cuteness
Above image from Rachel Maclean's 'Dr. Cute' Reading group Following the success of our AWW-STRUCK seminar, linked exhibition curated by Astra Papachristodoulou on Poem Atlas and publication in May, we're thrilled to bring you an online reading group event with special guest (and AWW-STRUCK contributor) Dr Joshua Paul Dale on 8 December, 5-7pm GMT. Joshua has curated a selection... Continue Reading →
We're excited to present this multidisciplinary publication documenting the AWW-STRUCK seminar and accompanying online exhibition of visual poetry on the Poem Atlas website. The publication features a wide range of poetic and critical responses to cuteness by UK-based and international poets and academics including Sascha Akhtar, Derek Beaulieu, CD Boyland, Sarah Cave, Jenna Clake, Matt... Continue Reading →
Professor Redell Olsen is the director of the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway. A poet and writer who often works with film and performance, bookworks, visual media and hybrid creative-critical texts (such as her recent essay for the volume Artistic Research and Literature), her publications include Film Poems and Punk Faun: A Bar Rock... Continue Reading →
As part of our AWW-STRUCK seminar, we're thrilled to screen Dr Sharlene Teo's short film, ESSENTIAL ANIMAL. ESSENTIAL ANIMAL is a short film commissioned by the Singapore National Arts Council in 2020 in response to a creative brief about the effects of COVID 19 on artistic production. It tells the story of a Sylvanian lion... Continue Reading →
Poem Atlas is an exciting online exhibition space and event series for anyone interested in the visual possibilities of poetry. It was founded in 2019 by Astra Papachristodoulou, a recent graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway, and its supporters include The Poetry Society and National Poetry Library. Astra is curating an ‘Aww-Struck’... Continue Reading →
A Cute Studies starter reading list focusing on the Arts and Humanities, from Sianne Ngai’s influential book Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting to journal articles, blogs and collections from presenters and attendees at Aww-Struck. This list is a work in progress, so please send your suggestions to awwstruck.info@gmail.com or tweet @cutestudies. Leslie Bow (2019)... Continue Reading →
A virtual day seminar co-hosted by the University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway, University of London aww-struck adj. the state of being overcome, surrounded or inspired by cuteness; to be filled with wonder at cute persons, nonhuman animals or objects (often edible); rendered speechless; unable to resist the impulse to coo or to stroke (sometimes... Continue Reading →
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