Michael Craske researches transgressive poetics, music, aesthetics, and perhaps transgressive anything at Queen Mary, University of London (though mainly Swinburne, Wagner, and T. S. Eliot). He was once involved in diplomacy, of a Middle Eastern kind…

To read my PhD research, follow the link here:

Swinburne and Wagner: Poetry and Music

Or click to download here: Swinburne and Wagner

Recent and future conference papers:

‘Poems and Ballads: 150th Anniversary Conference’, St John’s College, Cambridge, 29-30 July, 2016.

‘London Nineteenth-Century Postgraduate Conference IV’, Senate House, London, 10 September, 2016.

• ‘The Musical Legacy of Poems and Ballads’

‘Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 2017’, the University of Birmingham, 28-30 June, 2017.

• ‘Sounding Victorian: A Consortium of Digital Resources – Sounding Swinburne’

‘Victorians Unbound: Connections and Intersections’, the British Association of Victorian Studies, Lincoln, 22-24 August, 2017.

• ‘ “Music that shone from the word”: Respectable Swinburne, the Royal College of Music, and the sound of decadence’

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