Departmental conferences, seminars and events 2011-12
Conferences
- 2 May 2012: One-day conference 'Romanticism and Secrets' held by the Centre for Romantic Studies in the Reception Room of 43 Woodland Road. For more information and how to register see the Centre's website Romanticism and Secrets - one-day conference
- 5 - 6 September 2012: 'Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance: Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature'. For more information see call for papers.
Seminars
Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4.30pm in the Ground Floor Seminar Room of the Graduate Centre
Autumn term
- 4.30pm Thursday 3 November Tom Sperlinger, 'The Teaching of Doris Lessing'
- 4.30pm Thursday 17 November David Hopkins, 'Homer from Pope to Cowper: Nature, History, and the Primitive'
- 4.30pm Thursday 1 December Stephanie Codsi, 'Enthusiasm in Blake'; Adam Hanna, 'Feminism and the Domestic Sphere in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian'
- 4.30pm Thursday 15 December Jane Wright, 'Robert Browning and Honey'
Spring term
- 4.30pm Thursday 19 January Richard Fawkes, 'Dion Boucicault'
- 4.30pm Thursday 2 February Andrew Bennett, 'Inside David Foster Wallace's Head: Boredom, Paradox and Suicide'
- 5.00pm Thursday 16 February: Churchill Lecture (venue tbc) David Fairer, 'Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Poetry'
- 4.30pm Thursday 1 March Francis O'Gorman, 'Matthew Arnold and Re-Reading'
- 4.30pm Thursday 15 March Ian Calvert, '"Happy Friends": Dryden and Pope's Translations of Homer'; Catherine Redford, 'The Battle of the Last Men: Issues of Plagiarism and Originality in End-of-the-World Poems by Byron and Campbell'
Summer term
- 4.30pm Thursday 3 May Andrea Brady, 'Melting in Renaissance Poetry'
- 4.30pm Thursday 17 May Hester Jones, (title tbc)
- 4.30pm Thursday 31 May Craig Savage, 'Bob Dylan and America'; Rachel Stenner, (title tbc)
- 4.30pm Thursday 14 June Ralph Pite, 'Hardy and "the reach of perished Rome"'
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