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  1. A very British apocalypse: John Wyndham then and now

    A very British apocalypse: John Wyndham then and now

    School of English Colloquium

    10am to 11am Professor Allan Hepburn 'John Wyndham's Trouble with Women' This paper will draw on the Kinsey report on female sexuality (1954),...

  2. Understanding and Leveraging Intellectual Property

    Understanding and Leveraging Intellectual Property

    SHAPEing St Andrews

    This event is open to all researchers in the Arts Humanities and Social Science subjects. The Research Business Development Team are delighted to invite you to...

  3. English Research Seminar Professor Nicolle Jordan, University of Southern Mississippi

    English Research Seminar Professor Nicolle Jordan, University of Southern Mississippi

    This talk addresses a compelling paradox in Anne Finch's country house poetry. Known for her defense of women's education and artistic agency, Finch...

  4. George Jack Lecture 2025 Professor Wendy Scase --- (University of Birmingham)

    George Jack Lecture 2025 Professor Wendy Scase --- (University of Birmingham)

    Thinking with Visual Devices: Genealogy and a Gentry Family of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

    This lecture will focus on the genealogical and heraldic visualisations of Cheshire landowner Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) and his family. It will explore the...

  5. English Research Seminar --- Professor Adam Potkay (William & Mary)

    English Research Seminar --- Professor Adam Potkay (William & Mary)

    "Concordia Discors at World's End: Pope, Voltaire, Wordsworth"

    Concordia discors as a stylistic habit and ordering principle does not effectively end with the poetry of Alexander Pope, as mid-twentieth century philologists...

  6. Research Seminar Talk Dr Bethany Dubow --- (University of Oxford)

    Research Seminar Talk Dr Bethany Dubow --- (University of Oxford)

    Reading Nature's Alphabet: Early Modern Scientific Acrosticism

    In the 'Argument' to The Alchemist, Ben Jonson spells out the name of his play in the form of a twelve-line acrostic. Plotted across the vertical...

  7. English Master of Fine Arts Showcase Reading

    English Master of Fine Arts Showcase Reading

    Creative Writing MFA

    Please join this year's Creative Writing MFA students for a celebratory reading from their work. The reading will take place from 6.30-8.00pm in the...

  8. Research Seminar Talk Dr Noreen Masud --- (University of Bristol)

    Research Seminar Talk Dr Noreen Masud --- (University of Bristol)

    "Flatness, Focus and The Other: Some Questions"

    How does one look at a flat landscape? Alternatively: how does one attend to something which cannot, or declines to, offer any focal points? and why might one...

  9. Research Seminar Talk -- Professor Liz Losh (William & Mary)

    Research Seminar Talk -- Professor Liz Losh (William & Mary)

    Building a culture for generative AI literacy in college language, literature and writing

    As large language models become fully integrated into everyday digital tools for authorship and research, it becomes increasingly unrealistic to issue blanket...

  10. English Research Seminar Talk: Dr Laura Gill (University of Lincoln)

    English Research Seminar Talk: Dr Laura Gill (University of Lincoln)

    "Another flood, of tears and sorrow": Milton's Deluge in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Laura Fox Gill is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, specialising in Romantic and Victorian literature with a focus on image-text relations and the...