Dear All,

For upcoming research seminars this academic year (2012-2013), please use the following link:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/research/seminars

Thanks!

First Research Seminar: Wed 10th Oct

The first Research Seminar will take place on the 10th Oct from 4-6pm in Jessop West Exhibition Space. Bob McKay will be talking on: 

Animal Life and Moral Agency in Post-war Cinema: 
Velma Johnston, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and John Huston’s The Misfits.


We hope to see you all there!
Mark, Sara & Fabienne

Work in Progress - A Brand New Postgraduate Seminar Series

Work in Progress is a new series that showcases ongoing research by postgraduate students. It aims to be a friendly and informal place for speakers to present their current work to a group of peers.

The seminars will be held on the Mondays listed below from 5pm until 6pm in Hub Room 5 in Jessop West.

Monday 6 February 2012
Tony Prince - The Transformation of The Troublesome Raigne (Anonymous c1590) into King John (Shakespeare c1595), focusing on the character of the Bastard

Monday 13 February 2012
Liam Firth - 'Every Cry Has Its Echo': Yeats, Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Tradition (Liam Firth)

Monday 20 February 2012
Fern Merrills - Browning and Shelley

Monday 27 February 2012
Becky Bowler - Vision, Mysticism, and the Incommunicable in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage

Monday 5 March 2012
Adam Smith - Text as Spectacle

For more information, please contact Liam Firth (liamfirth@gmail.com) or Fern Merrills (f.merrills1@sheffield.ac.uk)

Spring Semester Talks - Titles and Locations - 2012

Welcome back to the University of Sheffield's English Research Seminars. We're delighted to introduce our speakers for the new semester, whose topics promise to be fascinatinhg. As ever, our seminars are held on Wednesdays, at 4-6pm, and we look forward to seeing you there.

1 February, Dr Sara Crangle, University of Sussex, ‘Modernist Sulking’
(HELD AT 4:30pm, NOT 4pm - Jessop Building, Room 215)

8 February, Dr Dominic Johnson, Queen Mary University, London, ‘Ecstatic Intervals: Scott O'Hara, Ron Athey, and Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy’ (HELD AT 5pm, NOT 4pm - Humanities Research Institute)

22 February, Dr Sam Ladkin, ‘A bit ambivalent... or not: some thoughts on the sentiments of contemporary lyric poetry’
(Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

29 February, Dr John Richardson, University of Newcastle, ‘Analysing British Fascist Discourse: The Importance of Contextualisation’
(Humanities Research Institute)

14 March, Dr Frances Babbage, University of Sheffield, ‘Into the labyrinth (and out again): myths, acts, consequences - and a belligerent Ariadne’.
(Humanities Research Institute)

21 March, Dr Stefano Cracolici, Gore and Glory: Martyrdom in the Victorian Novel
(Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

25 April, Dr Karin Zotzmann, University of Southampton, ‘The Concept of Social Class and Its Importance for the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Education’
(Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

2 May, Dr Rachel Zerihan, University of Sheffield, ‘One to One Performance: Strange Duets’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

9 May, Professor Ron Carter, University of Nottingham, ‘Creativity across Language and Literature’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)


Looking forward to seeing everyone,

Maddy Callaghan and Ranjan Sen

BAVS 2012 - Victorian Value: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics

The University of Sheffield is delighted to host BAVS 2012 - the British Association for Victorian Studies Conference. The theme is: 'Victorian Value: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics' Please visit our website: http://victorianvalue2012.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Autumn Semester Dates 2011

Welcome back to the University of Sheffield's English Research Seminars. We're delighted to introduce our speakers for the coming semester, whose topics promise to provoke stimulating discussion. As ever, our seminars are held on Wednesdays, at 4-6pm, and we look forward to seeing you there.

28 September – Literature: Anna Barton, University of Sheffield, ‘Locke in Pentameters: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Liberalism’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

5 October – Language and Linguistics: Professor Kingsley Bolton, City University of Hong Kong, ‘World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: Current Approaches to English Worldwide’ (Humanities Research Institute)

12 October – Language and Linguistics: Rebecca Fisher, University of Sheffield, ‘Magic or Medicine: The Anglo-Saxon Charms’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

19 October – Literature: Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield, ‘Shelley and the Ambivalence of Idealism’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)- POSTPONED UNTIL 2 NOVEMBER

WE WILL ALSO BE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WELCOME (TO DR JONATHAN ELLIS' LETTER WRITING TALKS) PROFESSOR EDNA LONGLEY LATER IN THE EVENING:

19 October - Literature: Edna Longley, Queen’s University, Belfast, 'Epistolary Psychotherapy: The Letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin' (Humanities Research Institute, at 7pm).

26 October – Literature: Professor Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia, ‘Unsettled Scores: Structure and Play in Browning’s Music Poems’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

2 November – Literature: Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield, ‘Shelley and the Ambivalence of Idealism’ (Humanities Research insitute)

16 November – Language and Literature: Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield, ‘Jane Austen and the Prescriptivists’ (Humanities Research Institute)

23 November – Language and Linguistics: Emma Moore, University of Sheffield title to be announced (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

30 November – Literature: Dr Sara Crangle, University of Sussex title to be announced (Humanities Research Institute)

7 December – Literature: Dr Frances Harris, British Library and the University of Sheffield, ‘Prospero and Caliban: Christian Alchemy at the Restoration Court’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

14 December – Language and Literature: Joe Bray, University of Sheffield, ‘Character and Caricature in the Early 19th Century Novel’ (Jessop West, Exhibition Space)

Looking forward to seeing you all again,

Maddy Callaghan and Ranjan Sen

Spring Semester Dates 2011

We are happy to announce the programme for the spring 2011 semester’s English Research Seminars, which will be held at 4pm on Wednesdays as previously, unless indicated below. Please see the individual entries below for details, including the locations of the talks. We’d be delighted to see as many of you as possible at these events, and hope you will enjoy the many exciting talks on a diverse range of topics.

The three letter writing talks (16 February, 17 March, 3 May) all begin at 7pm. They are free to attend, like all the other talks, but for these three events we’d be grateful if you could register beforehand using the following website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/letterwriting

FEBRUARY 2011
16th (7.00pm) – Professor Hugh Haughton (University of York): ‘Hearing from Poets: Letters to Poems’
Conference Room, HRI

23rd – Dr Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield): ‘“Necro-Phonetics” and Evolution of Latin Vowels’
Seminar Room 215, Jessop Building

MARCH 2011
2nd – Dr Elaine Walker: ‘About Horses’
Conference Room, HRI

9th – Professor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield): ‘Beckett and Lobotomy’
Seminar Room 215, Jessop Building

16th – Professor Elena Semino (Lancaster University): ‘Deixis and Fictional Minds’
Exhibition Space, Jessop West

17th (7.00pm) – Professor Angela Leighton (University of Cambridge): ‘“only practising how to speak to speak”: Poets and their Letters’
Conference Room, HRI

23rd – Dr Mark Sandy (University of Durham): ‘“Still the Reckless Change We Mourn:” Wordsworth and the Circulation of Grief’
Conference Room, HRI

APRIL 2011
6th – Professor Ronald Carter (Nottingham University): ‘Creativity Across Language and Literature’
Seminar Room, HRI

MAY 2011
3rd (7.00pm) – Professor Anne Fadiman (Yale University): ‘The Great Poet and the Prodigal Son: The Coleridges' Doomed Relationship’
St. George’s

4th – Dr Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University): 'Digital Fiction and "You"'
Exhibition Space, Jessop West

11th – Professor John Harris (UCL): 'Doing Things to a T: Phonological Universals vs Dialect Transfer in Sound Change'
Exhibition Space, Jessop West

18th – Dr Bridget Escolme (QMUL): ‘Madness and the Performance of Excess in the Early Modern Drama’
Exhibition Space, Jessop West