Creative Disruption in Scholarship: How Experimentation Yields New Ideas

The Authority File

In the second episode of this four-part series, Beth Driscoll, Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, and Claire Squires, Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, and the editors of The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition, discuss their process of combining creative expression and academic prose. They first chat about their concept of Ullapoolism, a guide for applying playful, experimental modes of expression to research. Connecting that framework to their comic erotic thriller The Frankfurt Kabuff, Beth and Claire explain why creative mediums can introduce subjectivity and new writing styles to the otherwise largely objective and traditional practice of scholarship. Further, they share social and political aspects of Ullapoolism, and how their disruptive approach to academia brings new ideas to the fore—including an exploration of the “big book” in publishing through the song composition, “Big Books (small snacks).”

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