Monthly Archives: February 2013

Poetry Discussion Group: poetry related to museums

Poetry Discussion Group This Thursday (28 Feb) at 5:15 pm in HumSS G57, Whiteknights Campus, we will be discussing poems related to museums. The poems, selected by Lotti, are: W. H. Auden, ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’ James Fenton, ‘The Pitt-Rivers … Continue reading

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Shifting Territories conference

Steven Matthews will run a training workshop on modern and contemporary poetry research at the conference: ‘Shifting Territories: modern and contemporary poetics of place’ a postgraduate and ECR conference organised by Oxford Brookes and Reading University to be held at the Institute of English Studies in London, 22 and 23 … Continue reading

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Undergraduates as paid researchers

UROP placements for this summer. Are you looking for a paid summer job that will help to develop your subject knowledge and research skills? Two research projects in the department have been awarded funding on the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme … Continue reading

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Guardian Poem of the Week: ‘Otterspool Prom’ by Peter Robinson

Carol Rumen of the Guardian writes about… Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson Robinson’s sonnet to Britain’s early spring sunshine, with kites flying over the river M This week’s poem, “Otterspool Prom,” is a sonnet by Peter … Continue reading

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Waiting for Godot

As a world centre for Samuel Beckett research, in January media spoke to University of Reading experts about the 60th anniversary of Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’. Emeritus Professor Jim Knowlson, a friend of Beckett and his official biographer, was featured on the … Continue reading

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After a successful viva…

Our warmest congratulations to Suzanne Leedham on her successful viva! Suzanne writes an account of her experience as a doctoral researcher, culminating in her thesis entitled ‘The Impact of Charlemagne and Roncevaux in English Literature and Culture from the Fifteenth … Continue reading

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Poetry reading: all welcome

Join us in the early evening on Thursday 14 March 2013, for a contemporary poetry reading & a glass of wine. The esteemed poets Elaine Randell and Laurie Duggan are visiting the English Literature Department to treat us to a … Continue reading

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Talk at MERL: Wilderness as a baptism of nature

Dr Sue Walsh will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) entitled ‘Wilderness, as a baptism of nature: Childhood and the Nature Fakers’ on 19th February 2013, from 4.30-6 pm. Taking up late C19th and early C20th … Continue reading

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Oscar Wilde, Archives and Texts

Archives and Texts seminar Monday 25 February (Week 7), 5 pm, Humss 124, Whiteknights Campus  Professor Josephine Guy (English, Nottingham) ‘The Textual Condition of Oscar Wilde’s Society Comedies: Re-Reading C19 Play-texts’ With the exception of Joseph Donohue’s 1995 ‘reconstructive’ edition … Continue reading

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CIRCL event: ‘What is with Alice?’

Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media SEMINAR SPRING 2013 On Wednesday March 13th at 1 pm in HUMSS room 106, Whiteknights Campus, Jess Sage, CIRCL PhD student, will give a seminar on ‘What is with Alice? Reading Alice … Continue reading

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