{"id":6357,"date":"2016-07-22T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2016-07-22T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:12:23","slug":"bbc-and-metro-interview-anna-schaffner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/07\/22\/bbc-and-metro-interview-anna-schaffner\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC and Metro interview Anna Schaffner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, featured in the press this week thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6136\">her recent book <em>Exhaustion: A History<\/em><\/a> (Columbia University Press in 2016).<\/p>\n<p>The BBC online site <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\">Future<\/a>, <\/em>which has a simple mission statement of \u2018making you smarter every day, interviewed Anna for an article entitled \u2018The Reasons Why Exhaustion and Burnout Are So Common\u2019 by David Robinson. The piece uses Anna\u2019s work to document the historical understanding of exhaustion. \u2018Exhaustion has always been with us,\u2019 she explains. \u2018What changes through history are the causes and effects that are aligned with exhaustion.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be read on the BBC site here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160721-the-reasons-why-exhaustion-and-burnout-are-so-common\">www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160721-the-reasons-why-exhaustion-and-burnout-are-so-common<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anna was also interviewed in the print version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro<\/a>, <\/em>the free newspaper distributed on public transport services across the UK, with over 1 million copies printed daily. The piece \u00a0entitled \u2018Are You Tired of Exhaustion?\u2019 by Jenny Stallard, asks Anna about the relationship between exhaustion and technology. \u2018We\u2019ve never in history been as dominated by technology before,\u2019 Anna states. \u2018Our exhaustion is related to always being online, always being reachable, never being able to switch off completely.\u2019 The article appeared on page 41 of yesterday\u2019s edition, dated 21 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>For details of Anna\u2019s monograph <em>Exhaustion: A History<\/em>, please see the publisher\u2019s page here: <a href=\"http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/exhaustion\/9780231172301\">http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/exhaustion\/9780231172301<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature, featured in the press this week thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/07\/22\/bbc-and-metro-interview-anna-schaffner\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}