Tag Archives: Professor Alison Donnell

Celebrating women

We have had a busy week celebrating women in and of the department of English this week. On Monday, we hosted the remarkable Jamaican woman poet Jean Binta Breeze who read from her recent collection The Verandah Poems and treated … Continue reading

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Edith Morley inspires us on International Women’s Day

One of the earliest members of Reading’s English Department will be the focus for our celebrations on International Women’s Day this year. Edith Morley became the first woman appointed to a professorship in a British university-level institution in 1908, but … Continue reading

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Airports and the distraction of a good read

Alison Donnell writes: There is nothing very interesting about the fact that I spent last Friday morning in Heathrow airport on the way to Edinburgh for a research seminar or even that I was distracted by the deliberately unremarkable life … Continue reading

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Talks by Creative Writers

On 23 February, 7 March and 21 March, the Department of English Literature will be hosting three internationally acclaimed writers, who will read from and discuss their work. These talks are an absolute must for anyone interested in literature, particularly … Continue reading

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Distinguished alumna

It is always a pleasure to meet our alumni but my most recent research trip to Barbados proved extremely special in this regard. I was invited to tea by Mrs Gloria Quintyne (nee Rollock), who had not only studied for … Continue reading

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The naughtiness of Mills and Boon

On the celebrated day of romance, one of the Department’s PhD researchers, Judith Watts has seduced the national media with her tales of Mills and Boon’s naughty side. Judith’s PhD research on ‘Mills and Boon and the Limits of Romance’, … Continue reading

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Islamisation and Fiction: A Narrative

Acclaimed author Tabish Khair will give a talk and read extracts from his latest novel Born and educated in the small town of Gaya in the state of Bihar, India, Tabish Khair is the author of various books, including the … Continue reading

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Weowan Budharugsa wins essay prize

Congratulations to Weowan Budharugsa, one of our PhD students, who has won an essay prize for her work submitted to the 7th Samaggi Academic Conference (SAC). Organised by Samaggi Samagom, The Thai Association in the UK, which was established in 1901 by King Rama VI of Thailand to … Continue reading

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Unsilencing subjects

Professor Alison Donnell, who takes up her post as Head of School of Literature and Languages from January, has been researching and writing about Anglophone Caribbean Literature for the past twenty years. Alison was recently asked to write about her intellectual … Continue reading

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Caribbean Voices

Peepal Tree Press Literary Readings Monday 18 November 2013 6.00pm G09, Old Whiteknights House, Whiteknights Campus All are welcome to this free event.   Curdella Forbes is the critically acclaimed Jamaican author of Ghosts (Peepal Tree 2012); Songs of Silence … Continue reading

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