Dr Sarah Dillon is to give the keynote address at an International Conference on contemporary author David Mitchell, to be held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 3rd June. Sarah will be delivering a paper on the politics of adaptation.
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Dr Sarah Dillon to Present BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking at the Hay Festival
On Sunday 28th May, Dr Sarah Dillon will be presenting a special edition of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme – Writing and Rewriting the Past – live at the Hay Festival, as part of the BBC’s line-up for the 2017 event. The programme will bring together the authors of three historical novels to discuss the […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at Transmodern Perspectives Conference, Universidad de Zaragoza
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at an international conference at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, 26th-28th April. The conference is entitled ‘Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English’ and Dr Dillon will be speaking on David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas and its film adaptation in relation to memetics and theories of cultural evolution.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Discusses SF and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief
On Monday 13th March, Dr Sarah Dillon will join presenter Robert Beckford on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to discusses the role of religion in science fiction with Aliette de Bodard, a writer with an interest in the interplay between science fiction and religion, and Roz Kaveney, a writer, poet and critic.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents Radio 4 ‘Seeing is Believing’ Mars Documentary
On Monday 6th March at 11am on BBC Radio 4, Dr Sarah Dillon will present the first in a three part documentary series exploring literary and scientific imaginings of Mars. Seeing is Believing is Episode 1 of We Are the Martians, and will be available to listen again on the BBC iplayer. […]
Continue ReadingBBC New Generation Thinker Dr Sarah Dillon at the Proms
Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents BBC Radio 3 Literary Pursuits
The third and fourth episodes in Dr Sarah Dillon’s literary detective documentary series for BBC Radio 3 – Literary Pursuits – will be broadcast to bracket the Hay Festival at 6.45pm on Sunday 29th May and Sunday 5th June. Episode 3 investigates the story behind the posthumous publication of Jane Austen’s Persuasion whilst episode 4 travels to […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee: Book reading and Signing at Stanfords Books and Maps
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is doing a book reading and signing at Stanfords Books and Maps London on Tuesday 15 March from 18.30 to 20.00 for his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand. To celebrate the Ides of March in this Shakespeare anniversary year, Dr Wilson-Lee tells the story of how Julius Caesar started a riot in Uganda in the […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee Publishes New book: Shakespeare in Swahililand
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]
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