SCR/MCR Event: In Conversation with Dr Scott-Brown, Prof Bricker and Dr. Newis

Tuesday 18 February, 6-7pm, The Parlour

Please join us for an informal conversation with our Visiting Fellows, Dr Sophie Scott-Brown and Prof Andrew Bricker, on the history of satire, visual humour and defamation law in Britain, Europe and America.

Dr Scott-Brown is a fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and a Research Associate for the Global Governance, Public Trust, and Democratic Engagement project at Northumbria University. She is currently examining 'social science satire' in mid-century Britain and America. 

Prof Bricker is an Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University and a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792 (2022); and We the Raptors: Thirty Players, Thirty Stories, Thirty Years (with Eric Smith, forthcoming).

Dr. Newis recently graduated with her PhD in English, and she was a former Bye-Fellow of Magdalene College who also served on the MCR Committee. Her thesis was on medieval spiritual enclosure in England, and the potential of the spiritual cell for both extreme good and extreme bad.