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Congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Yu-Kuan Chen for passing her viva
Congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Yu-Kuan Chen for passing her viva on 21-01-2013 with her thesis on ‘Objects of Vision: Text, Colour, Gesture’! External Examiner: Professor Sara Thornton of the University of Paris 7 and Internal Examiner Dr Neil Cocks, … Continue reading
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Tagged CIRCL, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Dr Neil Cocks, English Department, English Literature, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Professor Sara Thrornton, Reading, University of Reading, Yu-Kuan Chen
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Christmas Lecture a great success
The Children’s Christmas Lecture at the end of 2012 was a great success. Dr Neil Cocks contributed to the ‘Dickens in December’ theme with a creative exploration of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Work produced by the children attending … Continue reading
Neil Cocks at the Museum of English Rural Life
Dr Neil Cocks: “Country Education and late-eighteenth century literature” On 27th November 2012, from 4.30-6 pm, CIRCL’s Dr Neil Cocks will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life on “Country education and late-eighteenth century literature“. … Continue reading
Open Day
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Day on Saturday. We enjoyed meeting you and hope that we were able to answer all of your queries. Thanks also for leaving us your email addresses – we will … Continue reading
Dickens in December
The Department of English is heavily involved in the university event ‘Dickens in December’, with the following events: Tuesday 11 December, 8pm (Palmer G10, Whiteknights Campus): Screening of Scrooge, the Alastair Sim version, introduced by Dr Pete Orford from the … Continue reading
Christmas Lecture announced
Children’s Christmas Lecture 2012 Mystery and monsters: exploring the power of Charles Dickens’ creative writing. Dr Neil Cocks from the department of English Language and Literature will give the popular University of Reading Children’s Lecture this year. In this … Continue reading
Thank you to our open day visitors
We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ to all the students, parents (and grandparents) who visited us on Friday’s open day. We hope you enjoyed the day, and managed to see something of our beautiful campus despite … Continue reading
Sixth Form Lectures
This year I contributed to our on-going series of ‘Sixth Form Lectures’. These are talks given by members of the Literature department that engage texts and issues covered on A Level and IB programmes. We aim to introduce approaches to … Continue reading
English Department in the wider community: Sixth Form Lectures
Our Sixth Form Lectures are a welcome addition to the school calendar of many secondary schools in our area and continue to be a successful element of our engagement with the wider community. This year the programme has, as usual, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Department of English, Dr Conor Carville, Dr David Braumer, Dr Faustus, Dr John Holmes, Dr Neil Cocks, Dr Stephen Thomson, Frankenstein, Gothis, Othello, Paradise Lost, Poetry of World War I, Professor Grace Ioppolo, Reading, The World's Wife, University of Reading
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