Page for Postgraduate Events and Research in English Literature
Monday 7th April, 6:30-7:30pm (London Time), Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/colleen-hoovers-it-ends-with-us-2016 [Read this paragraph with a deep cinematic voice, like in Hollywood movie trailers from the 00’s] It has been a bestseller. It has been turned into a movie. It has been the excuse for young people to cry on TikTok. But it has not … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – April 2025 Session: It Ends with Us”
Please join us for an informal get-together of English Literature postgraduate students on Tuesday 1st April at 5-7pm in Arts Building, Room 201. This event is open to taught and research students and will be jointly hosted by Rex Ferguson and Amy Burge. There will be coffee, tea, soft drinks, cake, nibbles – and the … Continue reading “Postgraduate Social Event”
Interested in sharing your research through verbal presentation but not sure of the right venues? Got your eye on a conference but lacking confidence in how to present your ideas in an abstract and then a talk? Already signed up to your first conference but worried about what it’s going to be like? If these … Continue reading “PGR Event – Conferences”
In the next session of PCTG, we’re discussing worldbuilding, the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, particularly from the perspective of geography.
The next session of PCTG focuses on queer activism, and we’ll be watching the second episode of ‘Visible: Out on Television’.
Monday 3rd March, 6:30-7:30pm (London Time), Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/love-is-blind Happy New Year! Yes, we’re a bit late but we were hibernating (aka snowed under with work and study) and we’re now renewed and ready for our first 2025 session coming up on 3rd of March at 6.30 (London Time)! Our RRG session focus … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – March 2025 Session: Love is Blind”
For the next session of PCTG, we’re remembering the late, great David Lynch through a discussion of the “Television Gothic”.
The next session of PCTG focuses on medievalism in popular culture, reading two short texts by Helen Young and Robert Utz.
Monday 9th December 2024, 6-7pm GMT, Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/christmas-romance-special-hot-frosty Happy December! Are you ready for some Christmas cringe cheer? Well, Cathy (Lacey Chabert) was not ready either when a snowman came to life in Hot Frosty (2024). Yes, this is, in fact, the title of the movie, and we would love to meet the … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – December 2024 Session: Christmas Romance Special: Hot Frosty”
Monday 25th November 2024, 6-7pm GMT, Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/alyssa-coles-the-a-i-who-loved-me-1 We’ve been amiss in this reading group, we’ve been negligent, we’ve been slack: we have not once included a sci-fi romance or a romance originally published as an audiobook… or a romance written by the magnificent Alyssa Cole. So we fed these parameters to … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – November 2024 Session: Alyssa Cole’s The A.I. Who Loved Me”
