Professor Dunn Wins Poetry Award
Professor Douglas Dunn, Emeritus Prof in the School, was awarded the first Clutag-Archipelago Award for Poetry at All Souls College in Oxford.
The judges were Alan Jenkins of the TLS; David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English, Oxford University; Katherine Rundell, Fellow of All Souls; Fiona Stafford, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford; James Macdonald Lockhart, writer and literary agent; and Andrew McNeillie from Clutag Press.
Talks and Radio
Talks and conference appearances from Dr Ian Johnson and Profs Rhodes and Sellers; radio appearances from Prof Don Paterson.
In his capacity as a member of The Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium, Dr Ian Johnson recently led a session on postgraduate professionalisation and careers at the Quadrivium VIII PhD Training Symposium, “Getting Digital”, held on 1-2 November 2012 at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. The Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium's Quadrivium programme annually offers lectures, seminars, workshops and networking opportunities over a two-day period to postgraduate students (from the UK and beyond) who work on medieval textual cultures. Quadrivium is organised by a consortium of participating Universities: Glasgow (2005), York (2006), Birmingham (2007), St Andrews (2008), Leicester (2009), Belfast (2010) and Glasgow (2012).
Professor Don Paterson was on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb on Friday 9 November, taking part in a special ‘Cabaret of the word’ programme from the Free Thinking Festival at The Sage in Gateshead. On 27 November, Don was interviewed by Edi Stark on the BBC Radio Scotland programme Stark Talk.
Professor Neil Rhodes was a plenary speaker at a conference on ‘Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe’ at University College Dublin, 22–3 November. His subject was ‘Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England’.
On 1 December, Professor Susan Sellers will give an after dinner talk to the St Andrews alumni in Cambridge at Churchill College.
Postgraduate News
Congratulations to Rachel Holmes, Toria Johnson and Dr Joshua Richards; Lenore Bell at the DCA; publication for Lama El-Kallassi.
Congratulations to Rachel Holmes and Toria Johnson of our PhD student community, who have just secured £1500 from the MHRA to support their 2013 conference ‘Bonds, Lies and Circumstances: Discourse of Truth-Telling in the Renaissance’.
Congratulations also to Dr Joshua Richards, who has been awarded a doctorate for his thesis ‘Aspects of Asceticism in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot’.
On 27 November, at Dundee Contemporary Arts, following a special performance by the Smallpetitklein Dance Company of Embers, a solo for a female dancer and 4000 pieces of paper, PhD student Lenore Bell gave a short presentation and led a discussion on how writers and artists have described the spectacle of 9/11. The event at the DCA was part of the Scottish Book Trust’s Book Week Scotland.
Lama El-Kallassi, who is working on the MLitt in Mediaeval English, has a forthcoming publication in the Beirut literary and arts journal Rusted Radishes (December 2012). Her text is a non-fiction piece entitled ‘Siegfried and Charybdis’.