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Tag Archives: Department of English
Congratulations to a newly published writer in our department!
Olivia Lowden writes: We are extremely lucky to have such great creative writing modules at our university, and I have found them both inspiring and helpful to my own writing. The second year module Writing and Revising particularly helped me … Continue reading
EMRC seminar
A reminder that the first seminar will be on Monday 9 October, 1-2 pm, Edith Morley G44, delivered by one of our former students. All welcome: Dr. Morwenna Carr (Roehampton), ‘Disabling Shakespeare: Extraordinary Bodies on the Early Modern Stage’
Tagged Department of English, Department of English Literature, EMRC, English Department, English Literature, Reading, University of Reading
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Jess Phillips: Using your voice to make a difference
Jess Phillips, MP, visits the University of Reading on November 16th Dr Madeleine Davies (Department of English Literature) writes: Jess Phillips is giving a talk at the University of Reading on Thursday 16th November, 6-8pm, in the Van Emden Lecture … Continue reading
Rebecca Lindsay attends the IRSCL Congress 2017, University of York, Toronto
Rebecca Lindsay, part-time PhD student, writes: My paper at the IRSCL Congress 2017 was a success; the Postgraduate Research Fund helped me get there. My trip to Canada to present at the International Research Society of Children’s Literature Congress 2017 … Continue reading
Congratulations!
We are pleased to announce that Dr Rebecca Bullard has been awarded the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Tony Gray Visiting Scholarship, 2017-18. Rebecca will join the community of OCLW Visiting Scholars at Wolfson College, Oxford, to work on her project: … Continue reading
Fan studies – a new article
Evan Hayles Gledhill writes: Fan studies is an exciting and developing field that is highly inter-disciplinary; drawing together social science, history, literature, musicology and media scholars. My own research, into Gothic fiction, led me to become interested in audiences and fandoms. Gothic is … Continue reading
Emerson and the Archives
Dr Krissie West writes: Some months ago, I was fortunate to receive funding from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society to further my research for my monograph on Emerson and childhood. Emerson, the spearhead of the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and … Continue reading
Jane Austen and money
In memory of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, and the launch of the new £10 note, featuring Austen, at Winchester Cathedral, Rebecca Bullard has written a piece on Austen and money for the Reading research blog: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/the-forum/
A Special Collections exhibition: Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press
You might be interested to hear Nicola Wilson talking about the Hogarth Press centenary and Virginia Woolf as a printer with Mariella Frostrup and Mark Haddon on BBC Radio 4 Open Book. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vxkm5 You might also want to know … Continue reading
University Teaching Fellows in our department – congratulations!
We are delighted to announce that Dr Chloë Houston and Dr Madeleine Davies (Department of English Literature) have been awarded The University of Reading Teaching Fellowship. This is a prestigious award conferred on members of staff who have demonstrated individual … Continue reading