First Post and Introduction

Raymond Loewy Studebaker, as featured in Voices in the Street.

This blog will provide an ongoing record of my current research project, which is examining the relationships between ideas of mobility and writing and writing practices from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

I publish my work in conventional academic ways through research monographs and papers, and you can find a list of my publications here at (http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/englishhome/staff/englitstaff/I_Davidson/ ), but the aim of this blog is to provide something in-between the impermanence of the talk, and the formality of the academic publication.

So this is a bit like me talking, although talk that is independent of the usual constrictions of face to face conversation, and of course the technology allows you, the reader to talk back. So that’s another aim, to see if the ideas can be taken forward through conversation and dialogue.