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The William Morris Society in the U.S. is pleased to award the 2019 Dunlap Fellowship to Rebekah Greene, a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology (where she is also the Assistant Director of Assessment for the Writing and Communication Program). Here is Dr. Greene’s summary of her project: Following in the footsteps of scholars such as Rosalind Williams (The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Stevenson, and Morris at the End of the World ) and Stephen Arata (“Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness”), my work has recently evolved from closely studying the works of Robert Louis Stevenson alongside his interests in art and aesthetics to more broadly considering how Stevenson and his close circle of intimates thought about issues of education, world affairs, and improved rights for the working classes. Learning more about the connections between the Stevenson family and their interest in the revitalization of the Christian Socialism movement in th

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee. The aim of my thesis is to develop an implicit aesthetic theory derived from William Morris’ practical endeavour and situate this amidst the history of continental philosophy. The title of the thesis is as follows: An Aesthetics of Care: In-between William Morris and Martin Heidegger on Cultural Well-Being . I intend to critically explore the relation between the two with reference to such aestheticians as Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Guy Debord, Richard Sennett, and Yuriko Saito. I argue for the fundamental importance of aesthetic experience to cultural well-being: it can evince the pleasure of the individual imagination and allow one to re-situate oneself amidst technological culture. David Mabb, Transitional Monument (2004) In this blog post I will give an overview of my thesis on cultural well-being, which draws upon William Morris and Martin Heidegger, with the aim of uncovering what is means to be-well, either indiv