I am a professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University.
I’m most interested in cultural history and literary criticism, but particularly reception studies: how and why we read literature, and why that matters.
Issa, I. (Forthcoming, 2021). Shakespeare and Terrorism. Routledge.
Issa, I. (Forthcoming, 2021) How literature shapes history. In Carr, H, & Lipscomb, S. (Eds.), What is History, Now. Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Issa, I. (2018). The Online Revolution: Milton and the Internet in the Middle East. In Currell, D., & Issa, I. (Eds.). Digital Milton (pp. 181–205). Palgrave Macmillan.