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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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