Postgraduate Research in English Literature
Page for Postgraduate Events and Research in English Literature
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’.
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.
The next session of PCTG is on Affect and Video Games, and we’ll be reading Paolo Ruffino’s ‘There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2’.
The next session of PCTG discusses the modern vampire and their various generic connotations.
In the first session of PCTG for the new academic year, we’ll be discussing Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’.
For our final Page Breaks of the year, we will be discussing arts sponsorship. We will be primarily looking at the recent controversy with Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm that invests heavily in the arts, particularly in literary festivals across the UK. At Hay Festival 2024, the literary festival was boycotted by authors and … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Arts Sponsorship (3.30pm, Mon 15 July)”
