Now in its eleventh year, Skepsi is a peer-reviewed online journal produced within the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL). It is run by our postgraduate students, with the support of established and early career academics, and commits to publishing the work of postgraduate students and emerging scholars.
Striving to take advantage of the School’s unique position as a crossroad in academic studies in Europe, Skepsi aims to honour the spirit of the SECL, to develop collective thinking processes in the context of academic research, and to become a forum for European postgraduate researchers and postdoctoral scholars.
Based on Skepsi’s eighth annual conference held in May 2015, the latest issue, Volume 8, Autumn 2017, explores the theme ‘Disgust’. Disgust has received growing critical attention among researchers in fields as varied as literature, philosophy of art, biology, psychology or gender studies. The contents of the issue include:
- ‘Phillis’s Foul Linen: Sexual Disgust at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century’, Deborah Ross (Hawaii Pacific University)
- ‘Nausea, “The True Seal of Love”? Günter Grass’ Many Uses of Disgust in Die Blechtrommel’, Massimo Bonifazio (Università di Torino)
- ‘Dealing with Impurities of Childbirth: Contemporary Reconfiguration of Disgust in India’, Clémence Jullien (LESC, Nanterre / CEIAS (EHESS), Paris)
- ‘The Force of Disgust in Rosenkranz’s Aesthetics of Ugliness’, Martijn Buijs (John Hopkins University, Baltimore / ENS, Paris)
To download your electronic copy, please see the page: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/skepsi/issues/v08-disgust/