School of Advanced StudyThe Humanities Now - Literature and the Public GoodProfessor Rick Rylance(Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study)Chair: Professor Sir Adrian SmithDinah Birch (Pro-Vice Chancell...

School of Advanced Study The Humanities Now - Literature and the Public Good Professor Rick Rylance (Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study) Chair: Professor Sir Adrian Smith Dinah Birch (Pro-Vice Chancell...

The Humanities Now - Literature and the Public Good

Remediating Beckett

Institute of English StudiesThe London Beckett Seminar Remediating Beckett and the Graven ImageProfessor David Houston Jones(University of Exeter)

Institute of English Studies The London Beckett Seminar Remediating Beckett and the Graven Image Professor David Houston Jones (University of Exeter)

The London Beckett Seminar - Remediating Beckett and the Graven Image

Institute of English StudiesThe London Beckett SeminarBeckett and MusicDr Catherine Laws(University of York)

Institute of English Studies The London Beckett Seminar Beckett and Music Dr Catherine Laws (University of York)

The London Beckett Seminar - Beckett and Music

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureInterpretive CommunitiesProfessor Matt Hills(Aberystwyth University)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc...

Institute of English Studies Researching Contemporary Culture Interpretive Communities Professor Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University) Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc...

Researching Contemporary Culture - Professor Matt Hills

Kieran Connell

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureArchiving NowDr Kieran Connell(University of Birmingham)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It is or...

Institute of English Studies Researching Contemporary Culture Archiving Now Dr Kieran Connell (University of Birmingham) Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It is or...

Researching Contemporary Culture - Dr Kieran Connell

Roger Luckhurst

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureArchiving NowProfessor Roger Luckhurst(Birkbeck, University of London)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc...

Institute of English Studies Researching Contemporary Culture Archiving Now Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London) Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc...

Researching Contemporary Culture - Professor Roger Luckhurst

Literature Studies at the School of Advanced Study.

Literature Studies at the School of Advanced Study

Dr Seamus Perry

Institute of English StudiesAnnual Wordsworth Lecture: 'What Did Wordsworth Make of Coleridge?', by Dr Seamus PerryColeridge was the single most important influence on the great philosophical and autobiographical poetry for which Wordsworth is ...

Institute of English Studies Annual Wordsworth Lecture: 'What Did Wordsworth Make of Coleridge?', by Dr Seamus Perry Coleridge was the single most important influence on the great philosophical and autobiographical poetry for which Wordsworth is ...

Annual Wordsworth Lecture: 'What Did Wordsworth Make of Coleridge?', by Dr Seamus Perry

Institute of English Studies The Irish Studies Lecture - 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College)It was the day after St. Valentine’s Day in 1865 and love was in the air. But al...

Institute of English Studies The Irish Studies Lecture - 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College) It was the day after St. Valentine’s Day in 1865 and love was in the air. But al...

The Irish Studies Lecture - 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'

Institute of English Studies"Modernist Afterlives." A panel on the lingering traces of modernist aesthetics in the contemporary moment. Speakers: Dr. David James (QMUL), Dr. Paul March-Russell (Kent), and Paul Davies (Sussex).  Chair: Dr. Tory Youn...

Institute of English Studies "Modernist Afterlives." A panel on the lingering traces of modernist aesthetics in the contemporary moment. Speakers: Dr. David James (QMUL), Dr. Paul March-Russell (Kent), and Paul Davies (Sussex). Chair: Dr. Tory Youn...

Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar: Modernist Afterlives

Robin Robertson

Institute of English StudiesRobin Robertson (b. 1955) is a Scottish poet who lives and works in London as poetry editor for Jonathan Cape.  Praised by John Banville for his “dazzling metaphorical gift”, Robertson came to writing poetry later in...

Institute of English Studies Robin Robertson (b. 1955) is a Scottish poet who lives and works in London as poetry editor for Jonathan Cape. Praised by John Banville for his “dazzling metaphorical gift”, Robertson came to writing poetry later in...

John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading by Robin Robertson

St Ambrose

Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture'From Milan to Europe.  The transmission and diffusion of the works of St Ambrose' by Professor Mirella Ferrari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)A number...

Institute of English Studies John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture 'From Milan to Europe. The transmission and diffusion of the works of St Ambrose' by Professor Mirella Ferrari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) A number...

From Milan to Europe. The transmission and diffusion of the works of St Ambrose

Bernard Spencer

Institute of English StudiesStephen Spender Research Seminar - Bernard Spencer: Mystery PoetJonathan Barker, Professor Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) and Professor Peter Robinson (University of Reading) discuss the writer...

Institute of English Studies Stephen Spender Research Seminar - Bernard Spencer: Mystery Poet Jonathan Barker, Professor Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) and Professor Peter Robinson (University of Reading) discuss the writer...

Bernard Spencer: Mystery Poet

School of English Studies, John Coffin Memorial Lecture in English: Professor Elleke Boehmer

The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling and Indian Regional Writing

Institute of English StudiesProfessor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford)'A Sea Rolling High':  Wordsworth in 1804.The lecture will focus on the emergence of one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, the ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality fr...

Institute of English Studies Professor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'A Sea Rolling High': Wordsworth in 1804. The lecture will focus on the emergence of one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, the ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality fr...

The Annual Wordsworth Lecture - 'A Sea Rolling High':  Wordsworth in 1804

Institute of English StudiesAfter Buffy - a panel of short papers on the increasingly ubiquitous fanboy auteur Joss Whedon.  Chair: Dr. Stacey Abbott (Roehampton). Speakers: Dr. Lorna Jowett (Northampton), Professor Matthew Pateman (Kingston), Dr. ...

Institute of English Studies After Buffy - a panel of short papers on the increasingly ubiquitous fanboy auteur Joss Whedon. Chair: Dr. Stacey Abbott (Roehampton). Speakers: Dr. Lorna Jowett (Northampton), Professor Matthew Pateman (Kingston), Dr. ...

Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar: After Buffy

Berliner Warenhaus

Institute of Germanic &amp; Romance StudiesPhilip Hensher (London) and Annett Gröschner (Berlin) read from their workVenue: Literaturhaus Berlin

Institute of Germanic &amp; Romance Studies Philip Hensher (London) and Annett Gröschner (Berlin) read from their work Venue: Literaturhaus Berlin

Das Berliner Warenhaus - Kommerz und Imagination

Robert Coover

Institute of Germanic &amp; Romance Studies: Penguin Modern Classics author Robert Coover (Pricksongs &amp; Descants [1969], Ghost Town [1998], NOIR [2010]) will speak about metafiction, electronic literature and the future of writing.

A Conversation with the Author Robert Coover

Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture in Irish Studies Professor Emeritus Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin): ' "Because she never let them in": Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today'In June 1904, when a min...

Institute of English Studies John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Irish Studies Professor Emeritus Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin): ' "Because she never let them in": Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today' In June 1904, when a min...

'"Because she never let them in": Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today'

Institute of English StudiesContemporary Fiction Research Seminar: Hunting the Dark KnightDr. Will Brooker (Kingston)Dr. Will Brooker (Kingston) will discuss his new book on the enduring popularity of Gotham's finest in the 21st century.

Institute of English Studies Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar: Hunting the Dark Knight Dr. Will Brooker (Kingston) Dr. Will Brooker (Kingston) will discuss his new book on the enduring popularity of Gotham's finest in the 21st century.

Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar: Hunting the Dark Knight

Carmen Martin Gaite

Institute of Germanic &amp; Romance Studies (in Spanish)

Carmen Martin Gaite 10 Years On: revisiting her texual and visual legacy.

Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture by Donna Haraway: 'Cosmopolitical Critters:  Companion Species, SF, and Staying with the Trouble'This lecture will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies in association with the IE...

Institute of English Studies John Coffin Memorial Lecture by Donna Haraway: 'Cosmopolitical Critters: Companion Species, SF, and Staying with the Trouble' This lecture will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies in association with the IE...

Cosmopolitical Critters: Companion Species, SF, and Staying with the Trouble

Institute of English StudiesJohn Took (University College London)Poetry and Prayer: Continuities &amp; Discontinuities - 'Prayer and Prayfulness in Dante'An international conference organized jointly by the Institute of English Studies and Heyt...

Institute of English Studies John Took (University College London) Poetry and Prayer: Continuities &amp; Discontinuities - 'Prayer and Prayfulness in Dante' An international conference organized jointly by the Institute of English Studies and Heyt...

'Prayer and Prayfulness in Dante'

Institute of English StudiesHilda Hulme Memorial Lecture: ' "Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment'Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University, I...

Institute of English Studies Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture: ' "Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment' Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University, I...

"Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment

Institute of English StudiesCharles Barr: 'Hitchcock and his Writers'Charles Barr taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, and is currently Professorial Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. His publication...

Institute of English Studies Charles Barr: 'Hitchcock and his Writers' Charles Barr taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, and is currently Professorial Research Fellow at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. His publication...

London Screenwriting Seminar: Hitchcock and his Writers

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