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Roast your Supervisor — A Research Events series organised by the ModCon Research Group: Dr Sam Haddow & Mia Furlong – Legacies of 9/11 (Content warning for themes of death, torture, and executions)

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to — namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor — on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

Self Evidence and Romanticism
This talk reflects on the evidentiary authority of human experience around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe. It is part of a larger project that explores how artistic and scientific practices questioned the extent to which the human body could act as a source of reliable knowledge. After sketching out some of the broader theoretical and historical concerns of the project, I will look specifically at Henry Fuseli, an artist whose notoriously distorted representations of the white male nude puzzled viewers. Yet Fuseli remained significantly invested, intellectually and artistically, in the legibility of the body: for over two decades, the Swiss-born, London-based artist collaborated with his childhood friend Johann Lavater on a treatise on physiognomy, the study of the face and body to determine man’s inner traits. What were the epistemological stakes, I ask, of Fuseli’s art? Can ‘self evidence’ reanimate how we understand some of the formal devices now associated with the emergence of pictorial romanticism?

Dr O’Rourke’s talk will be followed by a question and answer session.
All welcome! We hope to see you there.

The link to join is below. Please direct any queries in advance of the event to Katie Garner, klg7@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Dr Katie Garner
Head of 18C, Romantic, and Victorian Research Group
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Roast your Supervisor is a Research Events series organised by the ModCon Research Group. At this event, Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri and Zehra Kazmi will present: ‘Vertigo and Affect Theory’.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to – the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor – on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

In this Roast your Supervisor research events, organised by the ModCon Research Group, Professor Emma Sutton and Ellie Mitchell will present ‘Recent research on Virginia Woolf and Music’.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to – namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor – on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

” ‘Writing—to the Moment’ in Richard Methley’s Mystical Diary Refectorium Salutis (1487)”

Richard Methley (d. 1527/8), a Carthusian monk in the north of England, wrote a series of mystical treatises in Latin that have received minimal attention from modern scholars. For that reason it has gone unnoticed that in his diary-like work Refectorium Salutis (The Refectory of Salvation) Methley employs a quite unusual narrative strategy: he writes down his visionary experiences as they are happening, giving an immediacy to his text that the British literary tradition does not see the likes of until hundreds of years later with the development of the novel and Samuel Richardson’s experimentations with “writing—to the moment.” This lecture will set Methley’s own precocious moments of “writing—to the moment” in the context of his text’s coherent program of temporal markers, extending from the liturgical year, to the hours of the Divine Office, to the indivisible instant and the “now” of the eternal present shared by narrator and reader — and God. With the help of Augustine and Paul Ricoeur, I will show how Methley’s whole chronological system, and especially his narrative immediacy, captures to some extent the eternity of the divine and the time-rupturing mystical unity achieved by Methley in his ecstasies. Such an innovative intersection of literary and theological effects highlights how the Refectorium forces us to rethink a newly elongated history of “writing—to the moment” in terms of the sacred and not just the fictional.

In this Roast your Supervisor research events, organised by the ModCon Research Group, Professor Gill Plain & Michela Esposito will present ‘Technology, disability and masculinity after WW2’.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to — namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor — on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.