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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Report on The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures: A Symposium
David Brauner writes: On 4th November 2016 a symposium on ‘The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures’ was held at the University of Reading. The event was sponsored by the ‘British Jewish: Contemporary Cultures’ AHRC network and the … Continue reading
CIRCL seminars – starting next week!
30th November 2016 – please note that this CIRCL seminar will run at a different time than usual! It will start at 2 pm and run to 3 pm: CIRCL Visiting Scholar Xu Dan will speak about: Discipline and Deviation: … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged CIRCL, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Dr Chris Milson, English Department, English Literature, Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature Culture Media, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Professor Zhu Ziqiang, Reading, University of Reading, Xu Dan
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JQ Wingate Prize
The 2017 JQ Wingate Prize has generated an innovative and diverse long list of fiction and non-fiction from authors around the world, as it marks its 40th anniversary. The 14-strong list includes six novels as well as a multi-faceted mix of … Continue reading
Tony Watkins lecture – all welcome!
A reminder that you are all warmly welcome at The Annual Tony Watkins Lecture on Children’s Literature, Culture, Media for 2016 Assistant Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen from the Department of History, University of Aarhus in Denmark, expert on Scandinavian and … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged Assistant Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen, CIRCL, Department of English, Department of English Literature, English Department, English Literature, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Reading, Tony Watkins Annual Lecture, University of Reading
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The Digital Life of Decorated Books
Please join us for the next Archives & Texts seminar: Thursday 1st December, 1-2pm in Humss G25, where Dr Hazel Wilkinson (JRF, Cambridge and visiting fellow at the Bodleian) will be introducing the newly launched Fleuron https://fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk/ With wine and … Continue reading
CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION: WINNERS!
This year, the Department of English Literature ran its first public creative writing competition, as part of the Reading Literature Festival and Reading Year of Culture. With the theme of ‘My Reading’, we invited 11 to 14 year olds from … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged Creative Writing competition, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Edward Day, English Department, English Literature, Millie Phillips, Niyati Amin, Reading, Reading Year of Culture, Tamanna Steven, University of Reading
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Wendy Meddour profiles the American author Jewell Parker Rhode
Wendy has posted an interesting author profile about Jewell Parker Rhodes on the ‘Books for Keeps’ website.
Call for papers
Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, 1900-1999 4 July 2017 Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, UK Current scholarship on twentieth-century periodicals is moving beyond the study of the ‘little’ magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Department of English Literature news and events
Tagged 1900-1999, Department of English, Department of English Literature, Dr Kate Macdonald, English Department, English Literature, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, University of Reading
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Creative Arts Anthology 2017
Call for Submissions The next Creative Arts Anthology is being planned for publication at the end of the Spring Term 2017. We are currently gathering the editorial team. As in previous years, we would like to present a collection of … Continue reading
Call For Chapter Outlines
Imperial Middlebrow: Cross-colonial encounters and expressions of power in middlebrow literature and culture, 1890-1940 Editors: Professor Christoph Ehland, University of Paderborn, and Dr Kate Macdonald, University of Reading Phase 1 of the Imperial Middlebrow book project has produced six commissioned … Continue reading