School Research Seminars
Semester 1, 2010/2011
Wednesdays, 4.15 pm
*Please note that Dr Brearton’ seminar (13th Oct) and will NOT take place in the Humanities Postgraduate Centre – venue to be confirmed.
Wed 6th Oct. Dr Philip McGowan (School of English, QUB)
‘The Centrifugal Forces of William Maxwell's Fiction’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 13th Oct. Dr Fran Brearton (School of English, QUB)
‘On “The Friendship of Young Poets”: Douglas Dunn, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley in the 1970s’
Wed 20th Oct. Peter Eakin (School of English, QUB)
‘The Mark of the Beast’: Recapitulation Theory and Social Evolution in H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau
Anna Marshall (School of English, QUB)
‘Charlotte Riddell : “the Novelist of the City”’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 27th Oct. Professor Michael Phillips (University of York)
‘Parody and Play in Blake's Composite Art’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 3rd Nov. Ruth Abraham (School of English, QUB)
'Remember, Remember: King James VI/I and anxieties of terrorism - The Gunpowder plot retold'
Claire Heaney (School of English, QUB)
‘Pain and Suffering in J. M. Coetzee’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 10th Nov. ---------------Reading Week – no seminar ---------------------
Wed 17th Nov. Professor Brian Caraher (QUB)
‘Contextualising Stephen Gilbert's “The Burnaby Experiments” (1952) and (2010)’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 24th Nov. Dr Stephen Kelly (School of English, QUB).
‘An Age of Faith? Secularism and the Invention of Medieval Religion’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 1st Dec. Professor Marjorie Howes (Boston College)
‘Slavery, the Irish, and the Atlantic 19th Century’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 8th Dec. Dr Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck College)
‘Coining Empathy: Vernon Lee and Psychology as Aesthetics’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Wed 15th Dec. Dr Moyra Haslett (School of English, QUB)
‘“A book unlike any other in the language, perhaps in the world”: Accounting for The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756)’
Seminar Room, Humanities Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green
Refreshments will be served. Seminars will start at 4.15pm and discussion and questions will 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 and encouraged to attend. Contact Caroline Sumpter (c.sumpter@qub) or David Dwan (d.dwan@qub.ac.uk) for more information.
