【開催案内】Ewan Jones博士講演会（2026年2月28日開催）
Ewan Jones博士講演会（ハイブリッド形式）
【開催概要】
日時：2026年2月28日（土）15:30〜17:00
会場：慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス大学院棟325B
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講師：Dr Ewan Jones Associate Professor, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies, Downing College
講演タイトル：‘Close Reading as Attentional Practice’
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主催：慶應義塾大学X Dignityセンター（概念ユニット 迫桂・徳永聡子・石川大智）
【講師プロフィール】
Ewan Jones is Associate Professor in English at the University of Cambridge. He has published two books and numerous articles on poetics, prosody and computational approaches to intellectual history, among other topics. Close Reading as Attentional Practice, a collection of essays co-edited with Marion Thain, was published by Edinburgh University Press in November 2025.
Cf. https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/
https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/peop
【講演要旨】
This talk begins by situating the historical practices of close reading within the contentious debates over the future of the humanities. Several recent polemics continue to circulate the received idea that practical criticism constitutes a disinterested, apolitical, privileged pursuit. I challenge such accounts by reinscribing close reading within a cognitive psychological framework that provided much of its early force – specifically, by considering the ways in which I. A. Richards considered his ‘protocols’ as a specific means of testing and extending a subject’s attention. Such a focus, I argue, represents an enduring if still-untapped resource for close reading in particular, and literary criticism more generally. I attempt to prove this claim with reference to several teaching protocols of my own, which adapt and extend Richards’s own example.
