A slew of dissertations and academic books are already in the works. Richards himself is compiling a volume of a dozen papers. At least six other academic tomes on Diana are set to be published by the end of next year, he says. Dianology, moreover, is an international field. Twenty academics from 18 colleges around the world have contributed to The Mourning for Princess Diana, edited by British sociologist Tony Walter.
Grant writing is furious.
He also lectured at a Diana seminar in Sweden. The Adoration of Lady Di. In the United Kingdom, conferences related to Diana have been staged at the universities of York, Bath, Lancaster, Kent, Loughborough, East London, and Glasgow Caledonian, Imperial College, and even the London School of Economics. In a lecture this year in Bristol, western England, Diana scholar Tim Dartington spoke in a dramatic whisper, comparing the late princess to Shakespeare's Juliet and the cartoon screen goddess in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The Establishment, however, is not amused by Dianology.