What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]

Dr Michael D. Hurley is giving a keynote lecture on ‘The Fate of Angels in the Nineteenth Century’ at a conference on ‘Word and Mystery’ in Santiago, Chile (18-19th October). The conference is hosted at the Universidad de los Andes, organized by: Institute of Literature de los Andes; the Faculty of Philology of the Universität […]

Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]

What kinds of books have giants in them?  How do they fit them in?  Find out at the exhibition on the first floor of the English Faculty. There’s also a display board and mystery object in the English Faculty Library.  The exhibition is curated by Dr Amy Morris and includes illustrated books from university and […]

All are welcome to join the editors of three new Carcanet titles at an informal launch event (with refreshments) at Heffers Bookshop (Trinity Street) on Tuesday 9th October 2018, 18:30 to 20:00. WALTER PATER: Selected Essays, edited by Alex Wong JOHN HEATH-STUBBS: Selected Poems, edited by John Clegg PROPERTIUS: Poems, edited and translated by Patrick […]

Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History establishes Swinburne’s significance in the historical development of English poetry from 1865 to the present. Situating Swinburne on the cusp of modernism, it argues that Swinburne had no personal style because he possessed all styles. His mastery of traditional verse forms promoted a level of stylistic self-awareness which […]