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DOWNING COLLEGE 2009–2010visual theories and explores their influence on his writing. She gave a plenarypaper on editions of Hopkins at the Society for Textual Scholars biennialmeeting in New York, invited papers on elegiac poetry at a colloquium atthe Sorbonne, on Hopkins and the Crystal Palace at a conferencein Monastereven, and on W. B. Yeats at Arras Université d’Artois. She made avery enjoyable visit to Katowice as guest lecturer at the University of Silesia, andtook part in the Saffron Walden literary festival. Her publications included thechapter on Christina Rossetti and Hopkins in the Cambridge History of EnglishPoetry (CUP 2010) and articles in Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétésdu Monde Anglophone and Religion and Literature.Trevor Robbins has been elected President of the British NeuroscienceAssociation (premier neuroscience society in UK); elected Fellow of theAssociation for Psychological Science (USA). He was the guest lecturer at theBritish Association for Psychopharmacology and has given invited lectures at theNational Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Addiction(USA), Danish Neuroscience Society. He made academic visits to Taiwan, HongKong, USA etc and co-edited a notable volume in collaboration with the Masteron “Neurobiology of Drug Addiction; New Vistas” (Oxford University Press).Graham Virgo has contributed to the fourth edition of Simester and Sullivan’sCriminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (Hart Publishing, 2010) with responsibilityfor chapters including homicide and offences against the person. In November2009 he gave a paper at the Law Society’s Hall in Chancery Lane at aConference to commemorate the centenary of what is now known as the Societyof Legal Scholars and to mark the creation of the Supreme Court. The inauguralmeeting of what was then known as the Society of Public Teachers of Law hadbeen held exactly 100 years previously at the Law Society. The paper was entitled‘The Law of Unjust Enrichment in the House of Lords: Judging the Judges’ and will bepublished at the end of 2010.In 2009, Ian Roberts continued to pursue research with colleagues fromCambridge and Newcastle on the AHRC-funded research grant “Structure andLinearisation in Disharmonic Word Orders”. During the academic year 2009–10,he published one monograph with Cambridge University Press, and has afurther one scheduled for publication in September 2010 with MIT Press. Hehas also published a volume co-edited with Roberta D’Alessandro and Downingcolleague Adam Ledgeway, The Syntax of Italian Dialects, also with CambridgeUniversity Press. He published two articles in scholarly journals in 2009, twoso far in 2010, with a further seven scheduled for publication 2010 and 2011.112