{"id":2492,"date":"2014-05-23T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=2492"},"modified":"2014-05-23T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:24:58","slug":"authors-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/authors-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AW_logo_long.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2495\" alt=\"AW_logo_long\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AW_logo_long.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AW_logo_long.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AW_logo_long-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AW_logo_long-60x10.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who We Are<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Author and the World\u2019 is an AHRC-funded collaboration between researchers in the departments of European Languages &amp; Culture, English &amp; Creative Writing, Linguistics, and History at Lancaster University. We actively encourage the input of creative writers, translators, and industry professionals. Our aim is to interrogate the literary, social, political, linguistic, and historical significance of the author as a cultural artefact and a producer of literary texts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What We Do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our work is carried out in academic symposia, practice-focused workshops, and ongoing online debate and artistic experimentation. By pooling different disciplinary approaches to related phenomena such as celebrity, gender, multilingualism, political protest, intellectual communities, and cultural mediation, we show how the study of authors can act as a conduit for exploring the very nature of culture and its associated industries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>See our new website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsandtheworld.com\">http:\/\/www.authorsandtheworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Who We Are \u2018The Author and the World\u2019 is an AHRC-funded collaboration between researchers in the departments of European Languages &amp; Culture, English &amp; Creative Writing, Linguistics, and History at Lancaster University. We actively encourage the input of creative writers, translators, and industry professionals. Our aim is to interrogate the literary, social, political, linguistic,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/authors-and-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authors and the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2492\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}