2011 Hertford College Magazine (Issue 91)

Professor, Ed Fisher of New York University,
in my laboratory and we have initiated
a number of new joint research projects
including studying the behaviour of
macrophages in patients with diabetes.
‘The summer of 2011 brought a number
of invitations to speak at international
conferences including the Atherosclerosis
Gordon Research Conference
in Providence, Rhode Island, the World
Congress of Inflammation in Paris, the
European Atherosclerosis Society in Gothenberg
and the European Cardiology Society
meeting (Paris, encore une fois)’.
Modern Languages
Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe writes - ‘This
year I’ve had two terms of research
leave, which have enabled me to make
some progress on my book on Victor Hugo’s
poetry of progress. Hugo’s collected
works run to forty-five volumes, and he
was said to suffer from metromania, constantly
and compulsively generating lines
of verse. Given that I’m charting ways in
which he represents vast sweeps of history
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in long poems, an uninterrupted stretch of
research has been essential for me to grapple
with his mountainous oeuvre, and to
undertake research in Paris. I’m very grateful
to students and colleagues for affording
me this precious time, and to Dr Emma
Bielecki for looking after the students in
my absence. I’m particularly grateful to
the students who, whenever they sight me,
keep asking whether I’ve finished the book
yet. It’s a happy reversal of the normal
state of affairs, but I’m looking forward
to resuming my duties in the Autumn.’
K evin Hilliard writes - ‘My book Freethinkers,
Libertines and ‘Schwärmer’:
Heterodoxy in German Literature, 1750-
1800 has now appeared. There were three
articles as well: one on Sophie von La
Roche, one on the reception of Epicureanism
in the eighteenth century (as manifested
in a portrait of the French materialist
La Mettrie and various comments
made on it by German writers), and one
on Herder’s theory of lyric poetry. I can
fairly say that I’ve covered the full moral
gamut of the period, from the exceedingly
virtuous La Roche to the very wicked
La Mettrie (not to mention those libertines).
I’m not quite sure what that says
about me. But the work was great fun.
‘The book has the dedication: “For
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