Ethical Subjectivity

Thanks for your email of a while ago. I finally plucked up the courage to have a poke about your website which is, I must confess, a rather intimidating artefact. I congratulate you on putting together that CV, though, seriously. It's enormously impressive. Looking at your stated interests and your mention of ethics jogged my memory of a plenary I saw at the weekend at a conference. The speaker was XXX, whom I hadn't heard of. His title was, I think, Beginning in the Middle: Shakespeare and the New Ethic of Responsbility, and he teased out possibilities of epistemologically hygienic criticism, by which I mean crit that doesn't memorialise or objectify (which is a grail and an impossibility). Anyway, I say all this only to urge you to look out for a forthcoming article by XXX on this - I think you'd find it interesting. He's one of those inspirational guys who just assays the critical field with indomitable confidence.

I'm looking forward to reading your articles in slow moments at work - thanks for sharing the link. I met a guy at Belfast called, I think, XXX, He's Australian, and a third year, and an exceptionally smart guy. His paper was on Paradise Lost and was broadly discursive and entirely captivating. It made me want to go and read PL again. Do you know him?