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  1. Poet Togara Muzanenhamo reading from his work

    Poet Togara Muzanenhamo reading from his work

    Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo will be joining the School of English on 4th April for a reading of his work.

  2. English Research Seminar -- Professor James Simpson

    English Research Seminar -- Professor James Simpson

    Unwriting Virtue, Selves and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure

    The tradition that became Liberalism, which claims to have promoted meritocracy and individual agency, was, in both evangelical origin and in 150-year tradition...

  3. English Research Seminar --- Val McDermid

    English Research Seminar --- Val McDermid

    Josephine Tey: forgotten foremother of Scottish Crime Fiction

    LOCATION CHANGE!! Josephine Tey is revered among practitioners of crime writing but relatively unknown among its readers. Although she wrote only a handful of...

  4. Medieval Studies Seminar Series --- Professor Clifford Rogers (Westpoint)

    Medieval Studies Seminar Series --- Professor Clifford Rogers (Westpoint)

    The Role of Cavalry in Medieval Warfare

    If you have any questions about the event, please contact the organiser, Dr Tim Greenwood, at [email protected]

  5. English Research Seminar -- Dr Jillian Caddell

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Jillian Caddell

    Memory-Building, Race and Memorializing in Postbellum America: Mark Twain and John W. Jones in Relation

    This talk will explore how the literal space of Elmira, New York, and efforts across time to preserve and shape memory there evinces multiple articulations of...

  6. Douglas Dunn 80th Birthday Celebration

    Douglas Dunn 80th Birthday Celebration

    A special public event to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of Scotland's greatest living writers (and former professor in the School of English at the...

  7. English Research Seminar -- Dr Jillian Caddell
    Cancelled

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Jillian Caddell

    Memory-Building, Race and Memorializing in Postbellum America: Mark Twain and John W. Jones in Relation

    This talk will explore how the literal space of Elmira, New York, and efforts across time to preserve and shape memory there evinces multiple articulations of...

  8. English Research Seminar -- Dr Rachel Burns

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Rachel Burns

    'And you shall know that I am the Lord': The Wanderer and The Book of Ezekiel.

    The ruined-city motif in the Old English poem The Wanderer (lines 73-87) has long been read as a reflex of traditional Germanic diction, and as a symbol of...

  9. English Research Seminar -- Professor Simon Bainbridge
    Cancelled

    English Research Seminar -- Professor Simon Bainbridge

    'I will assay to reach to as high a summit in Poetry as the nerve bestowed upon me will suffer.' (John Keats, Letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27...

  10. English Research Seminar -- Professor Mark Bould

    English Research Seminar -- Professor Mark Bould

    Three tendencies in cli-fi/sci-fi cinema

    While climate fiction is now a familiar category of prose fiction, the cinema of climate change seems less well-established. Both, however, can be dated back to...

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