This month’s events

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  1. Late Heaney
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    Late Heaney

    Book Launch and Talk with Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia USA

    Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, all set in conversation with his work at...

  2. English ModCon Research Symposium

    English ModCon Research Symposium

    School of English

    Join us for an afternoon showcasing some of the School's dynamic work-in-progress in Modern and Contemporary literature. We'll be grappling with all...

  3. Critical Games

    Critical Games

    Back to life: play, risk and the self in academic writing

    To its critics, academia can often appear as a form of elaborate play. Set apart from ordinary life, marked by ludic pleasures and moments of absurdity, it can...

  4. Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone

    Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone

    The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory

    Kamila Oles Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone: The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory The...

  5. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    The elixir, the editor and the platonic lover: pathologising and calibrating asexuality in William Davenant's The Platonick Lovers

    What do early modern recipes for love and sex and modern editorial assumptions reveal about early modern asexualities and their pathologisations? In William...

  6. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Maisha Wester, Manchester Metropolitan University

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Maisha Wester, Manchester Metropolitan University

    Dr Maisha Wester is a Lecturer in the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research investigates racial representation in Gothic...