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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Special Collections Symposium
On Saturday 24th March we welcomed thirty delegates to the University of Reading’s Special Collections for our one-day symposium on ‘Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940’. There was a good mix of academics, writers and archivists, … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged AHRC, Andrew Nash, Authors, Boots Nottingham, Department of English, English Department, English Literature, Guy Baxer, Judith Wright, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Nicola Wilson, Patrick Parrinder, Publishers and Readers, Reading, University of Reading
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Dr Pablo Mukherjee visits to talk on Kipling
On Wednesday 14th March Dr Pablo Mukherjee, Reader in English at the University of Warwick, came to give the Modern Studies Research Seminar on ‘The Dead Who Did Not Die: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera’. … Continue reading
Dr David Brauner on ‘The Jewish Anti-Pastoral’
On Tuesday 27th March, Dr David Brauner entertained an enthusiastic public audience at the Museum of English Rural Life with a talk on ‘The Jewish Anti-Pastoral’. Laughter soon rang out in the conference room at MERL, as Dr Brauner … Continue reading
Authors, Publishers and Readers: a new exhibition
Exhibition announcement Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and distributing literary cultures, 1880-1940 12 March – 30 March, normal museum opening times (Museum of English Rural Life) Staircase hall display The display focuses on the changing literary … Continue reading
Dr John Holmes: new publication
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, a collection of essays on Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions, coming out with Liverpool University Press this month. It has been great to work on this project with … Continue reading
Dr Mark Hutchings’ Leverhulme Project
I am currently in Spain on a six-month Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship, where I am organizing an international workshop on the theme ´Networks of Exchange: Exile Communities in Early Modern Europe´. I am based in Valladolid, which for a short … Continue reading
Professor Alison Donnell talks at MERL
On Monday 12 March, Professor Alison Donnell addressed a diverse public audience at the Museum of English Rural Life on the subject of the Caribbean Pastoral. Drawing on the work of Caribbean poets Derek Walcott and Olive Senior, she discussed … Continue reading
Archives and Texts seminar series: Professor Mary Bryden
On March 12th Professor Mary Bryden (Modern Languages and European Studies) gave a talk for the Archives and Texts seminar series entitled ‘Public Reviews and Private Responses: Herbert Read and T E Lawrence’. Her paper looked at Herbert Read’s … Continue reading
INSET day in the English Department
On 14th March the English Department will welcome around twenty secondary school teachers to an INSET day. Our training days are themed, and the subject this time is Shakespeare. The programme is designed to be engaging whilst supporting the demands of … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged Department of English, Dr Cindy Becker, Dr Neil Cocks, Dr Rebecca Bullard, INSET Day, Professor Grace Ioppolo, Reading, Shakespeare and Gnder, Shakespeare in the Age of Twitter, Shakespeare on Film, Teacher training, University of Reading
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Dr Neil Cocks gives a public lecture on the Ladybird archive
Dr Sue Walsh writes: On March 1st Dr Neil Cocks gave an open lecture on ‘The Ladybird Archive atReading’. He was introduced by Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, the director of CIRCL (Reading’s Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged Centre for International Research in Childhood, CIRCL, Department of English, Dr Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Dr Neil Cocks, Dr Sue Walsh, Ladybird archives, Ladybird books, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, University of Reading
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