communications directorShirley Dent

Shirley Dent Shirley Dent is Communications Director for the Institute of Ideas, the Battle of Ideas and development editor of Culture Wars, the reviews website of the Institute of Ideas. She writes a blog at the Guardian Unlimited Arts blog and is co-producing the Battle for New Technologies, as well as several other debates, at the Battle of Ideas 2007.
Shirley researched the editorial and bibliographic history of William Blake’s works for her PhD, and co-authored a book on the subject with Jason Whittaker, Radical Blake: afterlife and influence from 1827. She is writing an essay on the critic and editor Anne Gilchrist for the collection Women Read William Blake: ‘Opposition is True Friendship’.
Previously, Shirley was assistant editor of the New Humanist magazine, and Head of Communications at the Policy Studies Institute.
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