Jim Connolly, Director of the Centre for Middletown Studies and Patrick Collier, co-founder of the Everyday in Middletown Project, in conversation with Ben Highmore.
Ben Highmore is a Trustee of the Mass Observation Archive and most recently Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Everyday Life Reader.
Jim Connolly is Director of the Center for Middletown Studies and the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State. His scholarship examines American urban life, cultural history, and politics since the late nineteenth century. His recent publications include Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice (2022) and What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (2015). He is currently completing a co-authored book with Patrick Collier on everyday life in Muncie, Indiana.
Patrick Collier is the author of Modernism on Fleet Street (Ashgate 2006), Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture (Edinburgh UP 2016), and Teaching Literature in the Real World (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), along with many articles and chapters about British print culture. Since 2016, his research has focused on the Everyday in Middletown Project, which he founded. With Jim Connolly, he has published four articles or chapters from the project.
