Author: Rachel Sykes

We’re pleased to release the schedule for the first half of term. More details to come! Email r.sykes@bham.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

** This is a guest post by Alice Seville, research assistant for the American and Canadian Studies research centre**  As any local taxi driver will doubtless confirm, Birmingham is currently experiencing an era of unprecedented development. Yet with a truly unseasonable hot spell in February (fun for our students on the green heart; disconcerting for … Continue reading “People & Pages, Tuesday 26th February (6.30-8.30 pm)”

Wednesday 13th February, 4.30pm-6pm, Arts LR8 This paper will explore Shirley Jackson’s literary engagement with real life crime and the ways in which she makes use of genre features from various modes of crime writing to radical and disorienting effect. Het Phillips has a PhD on cultural representations of the ‘Moors Murders’ and ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ … Continue reading “Guest speaker: Het Phillips, ‘The Possibility Of Evil: Shirley Jackson, True Crime and the Horror of the Everyday’ (13/02/19)”

Date: Wednesday 30th January 2019, 5-7PM Location: ARTS LR/LT1, University of Birmingham What can be learnt about the workings of power from those who challenge power? This lecture draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of … Continue reading “CCLC Public Lecture: Sara Ahmed, ‘Complaint as Diversity Work’ (30/01/19)”

Welcome to the new blog for the Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture. Founded in 2015, CCLC provides a home for staff and students working on late twentieth to early twenty-first-century literature, film, TV, theory, and popular culture. Based at the University of Birmingham, CCLC regularly hosts visiting speakers, public lectures, conferences and symposia, as … Continue reading “Welcome!”