Dr. Chris Hull (University of Nottingham, UK), who gave the talk on New Research at the Graham Greene International Festival 2009 and is an expert on the background to Our Man in Havana, had a letter published in The Times (London) on 31/05/10.
He has been awarded a British Studies Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in order to study the Graham Greene Collection. He is one of two guest speakers at the Graham Greene International Festival 2009 to be honoured in this way, and his one-month residency at Austin will be undertaken between June 2010 and August 2011. His research interest was sumamrised in a blog post on 12th May 2010.
At the Festival 2009 Dr. Hull spoke on “Prophecy and Comedy in Havana: Greene’s ‘entertainment’ and the reality of British diplomacy in Cuba”, and his talk was summarised in the blog post on 22nd November 2009.