This week we’ll be thinking about Queer Theory via film studies, in celebration of LGBTQ+ history month.
1 February 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Category: English Literature
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 24th Jan)
In our next session, we’ll be looking at Sound Studies, through the lens of video games.
19 January 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Reading Resolutions (1pm, Monday 22 Jan)
In our first Page Breaks of the New Year, we’ll be discussing our resolutions for 2024, taking inspiration from eight authors who share their plans, hopes, and resolutions for what they’ll read this year in an article from early January. Come along ready to talk about your own resolutions and get inspiration from others! When … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Reading Resolutions (1pm, Monday 22 Jan)”
15 January 2024 by Dorothy Butchard
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 6th Dec)
This fortnight’s session focuses on TV Christmas specials, where we’ll discuss the standard tropes and some of our favourites.
28 November 2023 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Gossip (1pm, Mon 4 Dec)
For our last Page Breaks of 2023 we are talking about gossip! We will focus on the many iterations, meanings, and implications of gossip, including (but not limited to): the characterisation of gossip as feminine, gossip as idle chatter or a real subversion of power structures, scandal, solidarity, storytelling, folklore, dilemmas, expression, and gossip splitting … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Gossip (1pm, Mon 4 Dec)”
28 November 2023 by efa035
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 22nd Nov)
For our next session, we’ll be reading Nirmala Erevelles’s open access article ‘Thinking with Disability Studies’.
15 November 2023 by Rowe Georgina
Can Images Be Ekphrastic?
Wednesday December 6th 2-4pm, Arts Lecture Room 5. The second seminar of Ekphrastic Encounters – the newly established interdisciplinary discussion/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis – will be led by Sophie Hatchwell, Associate Professor in Art History.
13 November 2023 by Jonathan Stevens
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 8th Nov)
We’ll be discussing Fandom Studies via Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture.
3 November 2023 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Fandoms and Fanfiction (1pm, Mon 6 Nov)
Next, we are talking about fandoms and fanfiction at Page Breaks: what they are, what they mean for the people who are apart of fandoms and those that read fanfiction, and what happens to literature through fanfiction. Thank you to Georgie Rowe and Kit Richards for taking the helm this week with the reading suggestions, … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Fandoms and Fanfiction (1pm, Mon 6 Nov)”
18 October 2023 by efa035
Research Focus: Tips on Getting Started and Staying Productive (Mon 23 Oct)
This session is a chance to hear advice from staff and postgrads in English Literature on effective ways to research: how to get started in the early phases of a project or as you move to a new chapter or section, ways to maintain focus, and help with being productive even when other things may … Continue reading “Research Focus: Tips on Getting Started and Staying Productive (Mon 23 Oct)”
13 October 2023 by Dorothy Butchard