Congratulations to Reanne Crane, for successfully defending her PhD thesis \u201cAldous Huxley’s Island Revisited: Psychedelics and the Semantics of Perception and Belief.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both examiners were \u2018very impressed with the depth and breadth of scholarship,\u2019 suggesting that the thesis \u2018is at a very high standard of scholarly excellence,\u2019 and that it is \u2018an admirable research study.\u2019<\/p>\n
Reanne\u2019s supervisor, William Rowlandson<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, explains that the dissertation focuses on Aldous Huxley\u2019s final novel, Island, and the philosophical, ethical, pedagogical and metaphysical considerations of psychedelics in Huxley\u2019s final years.<\/p>\n It also draws on the influence of Laura Archera, Huxley\u2019s wife, upon his evolving thoughts on the psyche and psychedelics and upon the creative development of the novel.<\/p>\n The project, William writes, is a significant intervention into Huxley scholarship. It is also a penetrating exploration of the current growing scholarly field of Psychedelic Studies. Reanne explores the long shadow cast over the landscape by Huxley\u2019s Doors of Perception and the overlooked value of his perspectives at the time of Island. This is reflected in Reanne\u2019s consideration of the increasing corporatisation and commoditisation of psychedelics in an increasingly corporatized and commoditised world. Island, in this respect, serves as a valuable \u2013 and prophetic \u2013 illustration of this tension.<\/p>\n William congratulates Reanne for the excellent thesis and for defending the work in the viva, and looks forward to seeing the book publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to Reanne Crane, for successfully defending her PhD thesis \u201cAldous Huxley’s Island Revisited: Psychedelics and the Semantics of Perception and Belief.\u201d Both examiners were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76779,"featured_media":4137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}