David Russell

Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, US

David Russell is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, US. He is the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Marion Milner: On Creativity (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Written by David Russell

Black and white drawing of stylised smoke or clouds rising from the ground in swirling patterns.

THE SELF

Why bad doodles can reveal more about you than good drawings

For Marion Milner, ‘not being able’ is a valuable state – one that allows for new and unexpected forms of learning

by David Russell