Category Archives: Department of English Literature news and events

Thursday  30 January, 4.30pm, Edith Morley 124 Myra Bom (Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘Agency and Divorce. The Case of Constance of France (1165).’ Thursday  19 March, 4.30pm, Edith Morley 124  Christa Gray (University of Reading) ‘Dead body problems: burials in … Continue reading →

Monday 10 February, 1 pm, Edith Morley 181 Dr. Gillian Woods (Birkbeck),’ “Go make your liuely battel”: representing violence on the Renaissance stage’. Monday 24 February, 1 pm, Edith Morley 181 Dr. Alanna Skuse (Reading), ‘Biting one’s tongue: glossotomy and gesture in … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome you to the University of Reading’s 2019 Beckett week, 6-9 November in the Minghella Studios, Whiteknights campus, Shinfield Road RG6 6BT. Events include: A conference on Beckett and Italy on 7th-8th November, 9.30am onwards. Minghella … Continue reading →

Last week The English Society and other students attended a research evening hosted by some of the staff from the English Literature department, Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and David Brauner. It was a very informative and enjoyable evening, giving students an interesting … Continue reading →

Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 4.30 pm in Edith Morley 124 unless otherwise stated. 11 October FRIDAY, 4.30pm Edith Morley 124 Helen Nicholson (University of Cardiff), ‘Queen Sybil of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade’ 14 November Stenton Lecture: … Continue reading →

On 1 October, “From Switzerland”, Peter Robinson’s new sequence of poems, appeared on the LONGITŪDINĒS website, the first publication of this new founded magazine. LONGITŪDINĒS is an arts and literature magazine, with annual print editions and online content. It is conceived … Continue reading →

You will expect your masters to feel like the natural step up from your undergraduate degree. You will expect to feel confident and comfortable discussing theories, criticism and your own literary analysis. After the longest summer, fuelled by the success … Continue reading →

BBC Radio 4 recently aired a documentary on Hairy Art that featured Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. If you missed it when it first aired (Tuesday, 13th August at 11.30am), you can still listen to it on BBC Sounds.  For more information … Continue reading →

We recently posted about Dr Sue Walsh in conversation with Anindya Raychaudhuri  and Frances Hardinge in the ‘Proms Plus’ series discussing Kipling’s The Jungle Book. You can now here that conversation on BBC Sounds: You can also access it on BBC … Continue reading →

On 20th August, Dr Sue Walsh will be taking part in a Proms Plus Event that will be broadcast on Radio 3 during the interval that evening. That evening’s Prom features Charles Koechlin’s Les Bandar-log, a work seen as part of … Continue reading →