Last November I was interviewed for a second time for Classics Confidential, a site which hosts video discussions with scholars about their work. The interview has now gone up.
This is, I think, rather interesting. It was meant to be me talking about my research - how the Liverpool conference on Classics and Science Fiction went (brilliantly, thank you very much), and what I'm planning on doing next. And then Anastasia asked me why studying popular culture was important, and that led to me stating clearly on record what I believe the objectives of widening access to Classics should be (don't ring-fence the subject, either for socio-economic elites or for intellectual elites, but don't impose it on everyone either), and why I think pushing people away from the humanities towards sciences and business studies in some cases is failing students. These are ideas I've been talking about in conversation for a long time, but I haven't stated them publicly very often. I suspect a number of people will not agree with me on some of these points, but I stand by what I say here.
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