Sensorium of Reading lecture: Matthew Rubery

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Matthew Rubery, a professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London, will give a talk entitled "The Confessions of a Synesthetic Reader" as part of the Sensorium of Reading.

The Sensorium of Reading is a Krieger School of Arts & Sciences interdisciplinary seminar that seeks to understand reading as it draws upon and is shaped by mind and matter alike, within the sensorium of eyes, ears, hands, fingers, tongues, throats, necks, backs, and brains. We study reading enabled (and sometimes impeded) by light, air, wind, wood, stone, glass, paper, skin, and an ever-expanding array of interfaces, including the ways that texts can be sounded and heard, can be touched, and can touch us.