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