Upcoming events


March 2020

English Research Seminar: Dr Edward Allen, Cambridge University

Monday 2 March 2020
05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
Dr Edward Allen, Cambridge University 'Catch as catch can: Towards an understanding of literary-sonic pests' I will be attempting in this paper to elaborate...

English Research Seminar: Professor Jane Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University

Wednesday 11 March 2020
05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
Professor Jane Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University The Writer as Time-traveller Jane has set her fiction in the past and the future, as well as in the present....

English Research Seminar: Professor Emma Clery, Uppsala University

Thursday 12 March 2020
05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
School of English
Mary Wollstonecraft's Trauma Narratives and the Invention of Autofiction For many years after Mary Wollstonecraft's novels returned to circulation in the 19...

April 2020

English Research Seminar: Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton College

Thursday 2 April 2020
05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
Kennedy Hall
'England's Insular Imagining' The Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall

English Research Seminar: Professor Francesca Sawaya, College of William and Mary

Wednesday 8 April 2020
02:15 pm to 04:00 pm
School of English
The Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall Edgar Allan Poe's Mermaid: Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination "The mermaid resurgence" o...

English Research Seminar: Professor Rhodri Lewis, Princeton University

Tuesday 14 April 2020
05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
School of English
Polychronic Macbeth In this paper, I examine the competing temporalities of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and use them as a way in which to make better sense of i) M...