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Co-edited by Stella Bruzzi and Maurice Biriotti, with Sam Caleb and Harvey Wiltshire and a foreword by UCL President and Provost Michael Spence, Lockdown Cultures provides an evocative variety of snapshot responses from members of a community of scholars to an extraordinary social phenomenon: lockdown.

The book examines responses to lockdown through different creative lenses and from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, looking at how responses to the arts, culture, humanities and history changed through Covid. Lockdown Cultures captures how, in the year of the pandemic, we reassessed and reengaged with our subjects.

While each contributor鈥檚 approach varies, there are two dominant themes: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past

Stella Bruzzi, Executive Dean of UCL Arts & Humanities and co-editor, commented: 鈥淭his book provided an opportunity for academics who work within鈥�the arts and humanities to do something different from their normal academic practice: to respond freely to the extraordinary situation that they, like everyone else, faced during lockdown. That freedom provides a unique insight into how people within disciplines related to arts and humanities use the objects鈥�[and] methods鈥�[of] their study鈥�to engage with the world around them.鈥�

As UCL鈥檚 President and Provost Michael Spence states in his foreword in the book, 鈥淭his volume represents a brilliant snapshot of the arts and humanities while memory of the early stages of the pandemic is still visceral. The work draws on a wide range of disciplines and of responses both analytical and creative鈥�it is UCL at our very best.鈥�

is Professor of Applied Humanities at 皇家华人 and Chief Executive of SHM, a humanities and social science-based consultancy firm

Stella Bruzzi is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Professor of Film, UCL

is a London Arts and Humanities Partnership-funded PhD candidate in English Literature at 皇家华人

is a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare and Inclusive Pedagogies at Royal Holloway (University of London), having completed his PhD at 皇家华人