English Literature Research Seminars
Come and experience our research culture at the
English Literature Research Seminar 2011-2012
This seminar series foregrounds the English Literature research interests of staff and postgraduate students in the Department. Designed to be informal, inclusive and interactive, the series includes short formal papers, discussion papers and workshops. Three sessions are offered during the Michaelmas and Lent terms and this year we are opening up our research seminar to a full undergraduate audience. So come along and hear about the research interests of our staff and postgraduates at these events.
Michaelmas Seminars:
12- 1pm, 31 October 2011 (Nf01):Dr Carolyn Oulton
In this session Dr Carolyn Oulton will be speaking about her forthcoming biography of Jerome K. Jerome in a paper entitled ‘“They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed.” Writing the Sex Scene in Jerome K. Jerome’s Weeds.’
12-1 pm, 14 November 2011 (Nf01):
Neil Nixon
In this session Neil Nixon will be talking about Daniel Defoe in his paper ’Creating Creative Nonfiction UK; Theories and Case Studies’
12-1pm, 28 November 2011 (Nf01)
Steve Orman
In this session Steve Orman will be talking about his doctoral work on seventeenth century drama in a paper entitled ‘Saucy Widows: Deceptive Sensorial (Miss)Perceptions in George Chapman’s The Widow’s Tears (1611).’
English Literature Research Seminar Programme 2010-2011
4 October 2010
Dr Andrew King: What Betsy Read: Sentiment and Sensation in the Kitchen 1840-1860
25 October 2010
Dr Stefania Ciocia: The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Accidental Investigator in Contemporary Anti-detective Fiction.
15 November 2010
Dr Claire Bartram: John Toke's 'naughty mariners' OR Why writing about early modern 'Perished Authors' is relevant.
31 January 2011
Dr Peter Merchant: 'O sir, we quarrel in print': Sarah Fyge Egerton and the 17th-century Battle of the Sexes.
14 February 2011
Dr Anna Fewster: Composing the (Typo)Graphic Page: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees, and the Printing of Paris at the Hogarth Press.
28 February 2011
Dr Alastair Bennett: Short Prayers and Short Texts in the Wycliffite Egerton Sermon and The Cloud of Unknowing.
English Literature Research Seminar Programme 2008-009
Glenis Lambert: Setting up a Research Desktop.
Adrian Holliday: The Discipline of Research: Submission, Persistence and
Carolyn Oulton: Location, location, location: finding and presenting material for the first biography of Mary Cholmondeley.
Andrew Palmer: "The Rhetoric of the Desert": Literature and Landscape.
Adrienne Gavin and Andrew Humphries: Childhood in Edwardian Fiction.
Priyali Ghosh: "David Lester Richardon (1801-1865): A Romantic Anglo-Indian."
Claire Bartram: Social Writing in the Provinces: Kent in the Late Sixteenth Century.
Astrid Stilma 'The King's to blame'? Commemorating and Disputing the Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600-1639
Maggie Wilkinson: 'The Cloud Across the Sun: Blood and Honour in Early Modern Spain.