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School Research Seminar

2011-12, Semester 2

Wednesdays, 4.15 pm

All seminars take place in the Seminar Room, Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green, unless otherwise stated

Wed. 8th February

Prof. John Thompson (School of English, QUB) ‘Wombs and Tombs: Tudor Princes at Prayer’

Wed. 15th February

Prof. Josephine McDonagh (Dept. of English, King’s College London) ‘Village Peoples’

Wed. 22nd February

Dr. Daniel Carey (Dept. of English, NUI Galway) ‘Travel and Utopia, 1500-1700’

Wed. 29th February

Dr. Tina O’Toole (School of Languages, Literature, Culture & Communication, University of Limerick) ‘Queer Sisterhoods in Irish Literature’
(Please note: this talk is being organised in conjunction with the Postgraduate Women’s Writing Network)

Wed. 7th March

Elizabeth Switaj (School of English, QUB) ‘Pedagogical Joyce’

Yi-Peng Lai (School of English, QUB) ‘James Joyce and the Garden City Movement’

Wed. 14th March

Dr. Malte Urban (School of English, QUB) ‘Walking with Chaucer’

Wed. 21st March

Kevin Murray (School of English, QUB) ‘Thor and Back Again: Kenneth Branagh and the Evolution of the Shakespearean Auteur’

Joe Malone (School of English, QUB) ‘John Donne and the Sins of Sense’

Wed. 28th March

Dr. Marilina Cesario (School of English, QUB) ‘Romancing the Wind: the Role of Boreas in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’

Wed. 25th April

Prof. Mark Burnett (School of English, QUB) ‘Shakespeare and World Cinema: Macbeth’

Wed. 2nd May

Prof. Andrew Murphy (School of English, University of St. Andrews) Bringing the Nation to Book: Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism

Wed. 9th May

Prof. Laura Marcus (Faculty of English, University of Oxford) Contemporary Fiction and the Century of Cinema

 

Refreshments will be served. Seminars will start at 4.15pm and discussion and questions will usually run from about 5.00 pm to 5.30 pm. School of English staff, postgraduate students and colleagues from throughout the Faculty of Humanities are welcome to attend. Contact David Dwan (d.dwan@qub.ac.uk) or Marilina Cesario (m.cesario@qub.ac.uk) for more information.