Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Letter Writing Talks 2010-2011

Dr Jonathan Ellis (University of Sheffield) has put together an exciting programme of speakers in his series of letter writing talks. The dates of the talks, locations, and titles are listed:

Monday 18th October 2010.
Frances Wilson (biographer and 2010 Booker Prize judge).
Title: “Reading Other People's Mail: On Lives, Letters and Secrecy.”
Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm.

Friday 22nd October 2010.
Professor Hermione Lee (Oxford University).
Title: “Thinking of You: Letters and Biography.”
Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm.

Tuesday 26th October 2010.
Professor Paul Muldoon (Princeton University).
Title: “Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.”
St. George's, 7pm.

Wednesday 27th October 2010.
Professor Paul Muldoon (Princeton University).
Poetry reading.
St. George's, 7pm.

Wednesday 16th February 2011.
Professor Hugh Haughton (York University).
Title: “Hearing from Poets: Letters to Poems.”
HRI, 7pm.

Thursday 17th March 2011.
Professor Angela Leighton (Cambridge University).
Title: “‘only practising how to speak to speak’: Poets and their Letters.”
HRI, 7pm.

Tuesday 3rd May 2011.
Professor Anne Fadiman (Yale University).
Title: “The Great Poet and the Prodigal Son: The Coleridges' Doomed Relationship.”
St. George’s, 7pm.

Wednesday 19th October 2011.
Professor Edna Longley (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Title: “Epistolary Psychotherapy: The Letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin.”
HRI, 7pm. (Location and time TBC)

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