CIRCL seminars in the Spring Term

Please find here the CIRCL seminars for Spring 2017:

18th January 2017, at 1 pm, Dr Chris Milson, former CIRCL BA, MA and PhD student, will be speaking on Reading Funny Words: Sex, Gender and Language in Silverberg and Smyth’s ‘Sex is a Funny Word’

8th February 2017, at 1 pm, Dr Wendy O’Shea-Meddour, Department of English Literature and also a very widely-published children’s book author, will be speaking on: Battling with the Gatekeepers: Censorship and Silence within the British Children’s Publishing Industry

22th February 2017, at 1 pm, Dr Krissie West, Department of English Literature, will be speaking on The Child as Witch in Three New England Texts, looking at Cotton Mather’s The Family Well-Ordered; Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter; and Emerson’s Domestic Life.
 All these seminars will be in room HUMSS 110.
All welcome!

About Cindy

Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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