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Professor Alison Donnell, who takes up her post as Head of School of Literature and Languages from January, has been researching and writing about Anglophone Caribbean Literature for the past twenty years. Alison was recently asked to write about her intellectual … Continue reading

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Caribbean Sexualities

An evening exploring desire and dissidence in the Anglophone Caribbean  Wednesday 27 November 2013 5.30pm – 9.00pm Bob Kayley Theatre, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading  5.30 – 7.00 Writers Lawrence Scott and Bernardine Evaristo will read from their works 7.00 – … Continue reading

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Caribbean Sexualities

A workshop exploring desire and dissidence in the Anglophone Caribbean WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 12.00pm-9.00pm Bob Kayley Theatre, Minghella Building, University of Reading, UK In recent years, some of the most urgent and highly-charged public and political debates in the … Continue reading

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Enemies of the State?

The Department has just completed a project on the Easter Rising of Irish patriots in 1916.  Led by Professor Peter Stoneley, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project focused on the notable Irish detainees held in … Continue reading

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Enemies of the state: AHRC funded project

The Easter Rising and Irish Detainees in Reading Prison                         This AHRC-funded  project seeks to engage new, non-academic audiences with archives on the internment of Irish patriots in Reading … Continue reading

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Professor Alison Donnell is awarded prestigious AHRC Fellowship

The University is delighted to announce that Professor Alison Donnell, Department of English Literature, has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). As one of seven awarded Fellows this year, Professor Donnell will undertake … Continue reading

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The Pre-Raphaelites and science

John Holmes writes: Since the start of October, I’ve been working on an AHRC Research Fellowship on the Pre-Raphaelites and science. Over the project as a whole I am going to be looking at Pre-Raphaelite poetry, painting and art criticism, … Continue reading

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Nicola Abram writes on her Prison Reading Group

Since June, I’ve been voluntarily co-running a reading group at HMP/YOI Bronzefield, a women’s prison in Middlesex. Ours is one of 32 groups supported by the Prison Reading Groups project, a partnership between the University of Roehampton and the Prisoners’ … Continue reading

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Dr John Holmes: AHRC Fellowship Science in Culture

  I have been working for just over a year now on science and the Pre-Raphaelites, and I’ve just been awarded an AHRC Fellowship under the heading of ‘Science in Culture’ to spend next year working on this project. Critics … Continue reading

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Dr Natalie Pollard: ‘On Rudeness’

  Dr Natalie Pollard, the department’s new British Academy Research Fellow, will be giving a research paper on: Wednesday 23 May 2.30 pm HumSS 144, Whiteknights Campus ON RUDENESS: Contemporary Poetry and the Tongue’s Territory All welcome!   Do come … Continue reading

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