Dr Alex Broadhead

Summary

In 2012 and 2013, I organised Sing-Folk-Speak: two events themed around the subject of dialect, place and identity in folk music, featuring live music and conversation between academics and nationally-acclaimed folk singers (for the accompanying blog, follow [http://singfolkspeak.wordpress.com] this link). The inspiration for these events came from the songs of Robert Burns and the endearing garrulity of folkies, to which I had been exposed from a tender age.

A year later, at the Sheffield Showroom Cinema in 2014, I ran 'Romanticism at the Cinema.' This comprised a series of talks and screenings of films featuring the Romantics, including Ken Russell's Gothic, perhaps the only film about Byron and the Shelleys to have been inspired by A Nightmare on Elm Street.

In 2016 I gave a public lecture on the fictional afterlives of William Blake at the Voices of Radical London event, organised by the University of Liverpool.