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
