Medieval into Renaissance – Essays for Helen Cooper

Published this month: Medieval into Renaissance – Essays for Helen Cooper.  A festschrift for Professor Helen Cooper, former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. The collection builds on and responds to the work of  Professor Cooper, exploring the connections and intersections between medieval and renaissance literature. Edited by Andrew King & Matthew Woodcock Includes an essay by Dr […]

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Dr Andrew Zurcher Plenary Lecture Epistolary Cultures Conference

Dr Zurcher gives the Plenary Lecture at the Epistolary Cultures – Letters and Letter-writing in Early Modern Europe conference, University of York, Friday 18 March. Bringing together speakers from around the globe who are working on early modern letter writing and its networks, this conference explores the many aspects of early modern epistolary culture in the […]

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Prof Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference

Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers. 

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Professor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’

Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]

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Dr Laura Wright Plenary Address at 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop

Dr Laura Wright will be a plenary speaker at the 3rd Southern Englishes Workshop at University College London on February 19-20 2016. Hosted by the Linguistics Department at UCL, the Workshop will explore historical and synchronic dialectology, historical and synchronic sociolinguistics, language contact, multilingualism, dialect in literature, and other areas relevant to English and varieties of English […]

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