The English Seminar
The School of English Research Seminar Series aims to promote intellectual dialogue amongst staff, students and visiting speakers in order to foster an engaging research culture within the School and to cultivate external research links and networks. For further information, please contact the School of English office, telephone (01334) 462666. Unless otherwise stated, all events are open to the public and admission is free. Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place on Wednesdays.
See also:
The English Seminar, Semester 1, 2009/10
Thursday 8th October, 5.15pm
Jason Donald
Choke Chain: A Reading and Discussion by the Author
Wednesday 14th October, 5.15pm. School III, St Salvator's Quad.
Prof Andrew Murphy (St Andrews)
The Poet and the Professor: W. B. Yeats, Edward Dowden and the Meanings of Culture
Inaugural lecture, followed by a reception in the Lawson Room.
Wednesday 21st October, 2pm
Prof Dorothy Hale (Berkeley)
On Beauty as Beautiful?: The Problem of Novelistic Aesthetics By Way of Zadie Smith
Wednesday 28th October, 5.15pm. School I, St Salvator's Quad
Prof Robert Crawford (St Andrews)
T. S. Eliot's Daughter
The British Academy Warton Lecture on English Poetry, 2009, followed by a reception in the Lawson Room
Wednesday 4th November, 5.15pm
Dr Rebecca Beasley (Oxford)
Modernism's Translations
Wednesday 18th November, 2pm
Prof Elizabeth Robertson (Glasgow)
Formel/Formal Subjectivity: Polyphony, Dissent and Gender in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles
Tuesday 24th November, 5.15pm
Adam Thirlwell
Due to unforeseen circumstances Adam Thirlwell's talk had to be cancelled
Wednesday 25th November, 2pm
Dr Brycchan Carey (Kingston)
"We contradict and are against this traffick of men-body": re-reading the first protest against the slave trade, Germantown, 1688
Wednesday 2nd December, 2pm
Dr Sharon Blackie (Two Ravens Press)
Is there a future for literary fiction?
Previous seminar series:
English Seminar Programme, Semester 2 2008/09 (PDF, 141 KB)
English Seminar Programme, Semester 1 2008/09 (PDF, 61 KB)
Titles and Abstracts for Seminar Series 08/09 (DOC, 48 KB)
English Seminar Programme, Semester 2 2007/08 (PDF, 105 KB)
