Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Rhiannon Grant, who teaches in Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham. We learn about Rhiannon’s work, which includes recently having had an edited book published featuring a range of international academics and lay writers. Rhiannon grew up in Watford, did her first degree in Philosophy and Theology in Nottingham, has an MA from Leeds and a PhD, which she also undertook at Leeds, in uses of Quaker language. We find out that Rhiannon was into reading and writing from a young age and was, indeed, writing before she started reading, and had read The Lord of the Rings while in primary school. We learn how Rhiannon takes book recommendations from her PhD students as much as the other way around, and we talk about changes in the way education has evolved over the years and the way certain texts e.g. The Matrix have become canonical. We discuss also the use of pop culture in seminars. We discuss the reading records that exist via Goodreads which Rhiannon uses to log all the books she