Neema Parvini, who teaches at the University of Surrey, edits a podcast about Shakespeare and contemporary theory, and in the most recent episode, he talks to me. You can link to it by clicking on the word ‘here’ here. I enjoyed the conversation, because Neema and I are both interested in the historicist scholarship that has been at the forefront of Shakespeare studies for the last thirty years, and we are both interested in how a cognitive approach may challenge and/or enrich the historicist paradigm. He has written books about both: Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (2012), and Shakespeare and Cognition Thinking Fast and Slow through Character (2015). As a result he may well be the more cogent speaker… I keep having flashbacks of myself telling my old war stories, delivering pious sermons, and so on, but I enjoyed it a lot.