Beyond the Books - Series 3: Episode 2 - Paul Crosthwaite

Update: 2025-06-06

Description

Beyond the
Books is a podcast from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures,
Languages and Cultures (LLC) that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at
research and the people who make it happen. This is the second episode in
Series 3, which is hosted by Beth Price (PhD student in Asian Studies).

In this episode, Beth talks to Paul Crosthwaite,
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in LLC. Can fiction really
predict the next economic trend? Can literature’s ‘what if’ questions help us
reset our relationship with money, labour, finance and so on? They dive into
speculative fiction and the emerging field of the Economic Humanities to find
out.

If you'd like to explore Paul's work in more detail, watch or listen to his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature recorded in Edinburgh in March 2024 >>
Inaugural Lecture - What are the Economic Humanities? A Short Guide to an Interdisciplinary Field