Monthly Archives: August 2013

Creative Writers in the department

Conor Carville writes: Last year the writer Jo Baker came to the English Department to teach a masterclass when she shared the secrets of being a successful novelist with 15 lucky undergraduates. In the weeks following, her novel Longbourn was … Continue reading

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The Last Taboo

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein writes: In 2007, I edited and contributed to the volume The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair (Manchester University Press, 2007 and paperback reprint 2011) including contributions from several other colleagues in the department, such as Mrs … Continue reading

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Our student working in Special Collections

The latest post from the Special Collections’ blog comes from Dale Hall, who has recently completed a six week UROP<http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/urop/urop_home.aspx> placement at Special Collections. Dale has made a great start on a transcription and digitisation project of the Hogarth Press … Continue reading

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EMRC conference performance

 Lady Jane Lumley’s Iphigenia at Aulis (c. 1555) was performed by The Rose Company at the Minghella Theatre, and directed by Emma Rucastle, during the Reading Early Modern Studies Conference on Tuesday 9 July, 2013. The performance can be seen … 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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Walking around Shakespeare’s London Theatres

 Professor Grace Ioppolo writes: This is an extremely exciting time to be a theatre historian of the age of Shakespeare. Archaeologists and theatre historians have been recently working together to map the areas around the Southbank of the Thames and … Continue reading

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Conference report

Laura McCarthy, a postgraduate researcher, writes: The Early Modern Research Centre Conference was a fantastic opportunity to meet and hear from Early Modernists in an interdisciplinary and friendly environment. The attendees were a mix of experienced and new academics, which was … Continue reading

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Prize winning essay

Dr Rebecca Bullard’s essay, ‘Gatherings in Exile: Interpreting the Bibliographical Structure of Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (1656)’, published in the journal English Studies, has been awarded the Sylvia Bowerbank Award 2013 by the International Margaret Cavendish Society. … Continue reading

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Talking about English Literature in Beijing and Beyond

Professor Grace Ioppolo writes:  I have just returned from a conference at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, held by the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), which was ‘formed shortly after the Second World War with the idea … Continue reading

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Life after PhD at Reading

A reflection by Dr Amorella Lamount Acting Senior Lecturer, Department of Humanities & Aesthetics, Faculty of Education, College of Agriculture, Science & Education (Portland, Jamaica) After completing my PhD at the University of Reading, I began navigating the difficult transition … Continue reading

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