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Dr Katherine Hall, a Senior Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine and practising clinician, believes the ancient ruler did not die from infection, alcoholism or murder, as others have claimed. Instead, she argues he met his demise thanks to the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Dr Hall has had a long standing interest in ancient history and ancient medical history, and over the past five years has been studying part-time for a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Classics (and with a smattering of Ancient Greek). In CLAS241 lecture on Alexander the Great Associate Professor Pat Wheatley outlined what was known about Alexander’s death; drawing on her clinical knowledge and experience of Intensive Care Medicine she was immediately struck with the idea that this could be a case of the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Six months' research followed, culminating in an article published in The Ancient History Bulletin. In the article she says previous theories around his death in 323BC have not been satisfactory because they have not explained the entire event.

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Let’s go lesbians I survived finals week….

Items in purple are key foundational texts for the debate about how much Mary Shelley may have known (Craciun 2016) or not known (Cavell 2017) about John Barrow's plans for naval arctic exploration in 1818. Items in pink are about queer readings of the Polar Frame.

Bachinger, Jacob. “The Arctic and ‘Other Spaces’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” At the EDGE 1 (2010): 158–74.

Beck, Rudolf. “‘The Region of Beauty and Delight’: Walton’s Polar Fantasies in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Keats-Shelley Journal 49 (2000): 24–29.

Blank, Isabelle. “Beyond Borders: The Arctic as a Queer Utopia in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” The Foundationalist 2, no. 1 (2019): 2–9.

Bowers, Katherine. “Haunted Ice, Fearful Sounds, and the Arctic Sublime: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Polar Gothic Space.” Gothic Studies 19, no. 2 (2017): 71–84.

Carroll, Siobhan. “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818.” European Romantic Review 24, no. 2 (2013): 211–30.

Carroll, Siobhan. An Empire of Air and Water Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. [esp. pgs. 51–5]

Cavell, Janice. “The Sea of Ice and the Icy Sea: The Arctic Frame of Frankenstein.” Arctic 70, no. 3 (2017): 295–307.

Craciun, Adriana. Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration. Cambridge University Press, 2016. [esp. pgs 90–106]

Ellis, Reuben J. “Mary Shelley Reading Ludvig Holberg: A Subterranean Fantasy at the Outer Edge of Frankenstein.” Extrapolation 31, no. 4 (1990): 317–25.

Garrison, Laurie. “Imperial Vision in the Arctic: Fleeting Looks and Pleasurable Distractions in Barker’s Panorama and Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, no. 52 (2009): n.p.

Gould, Polly. “Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘Woman.’” Nordlit 12, no. 1 (2008): 103–18.

Hill, Jen. White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination. SUNY Press, 2008. [esp. pgs. 56–69]

Lanone, Catherine. “The Mystery of ‘Those Icy Climes’ (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-Century Polar Exploration.” Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 71 (2010): 201–10.

Lanone, Catherine. “Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons.” In EcoGothic, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Manchester University Press, 2013.

McGavran, James Holt. “‘Insurmountable Barriers to Our Union’: Homosocial Male Bonding, Homosexual Panic, and Death on the Ice in Frankenstein.” European Romantic Review 11, no. 1 (2000): 46–67.

Piper, Karen Lynnea. “Inuit Diasporas: Frankenstein and the Inuit in England.” Romanticism 13, no. 1 (2007): 63–75

Richard, Jessica. “‘A Paradise of My Own Creation’: Frankenstein and the Improbable Romance of Polar Exploration.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25, no. 4 (2003): 295–314.

Scobie, Ruth. “Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers: James Cook, James King, and a Sledge in Kamchatka.” The Keats-Shelley Review 27, no. 1 (2013): 8–14.

Let’s go lesbians I survived finals week….