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
Category: English Literature
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
Ekphrasis As Political Encounter
Wednesday October 18th 2-4pm Lecture Room 7 Arts Building The first seminar of Ekphrastic Encounters – the newly established interdisciplinary discussion/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis – will be led by John Fagg, Senior Lecturer in America Literature and Culture, who has written extensively about the interface between word and image. In … Continue reading “Ekphrasis As Political Encounter”
11 October 2023 by Jonathan Stevens
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 18th Oct)
Next session: Wednesday 18th October, 5-7pm We’ll be discussing Genre Theory via Tzvetan Todorov’s essay ‘The Origin of Genres’, but please come along even if you don’t have time to read it. Contact Georgie at gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk for access to the reading, along with location details and the zoom link.
9 October 2023 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Illegal Archives (1pm, Mon 16 Oct)
For our next Page Breaks, we’re talking about illegal online archives: what they mean for researchers, for those outside the academy and traditional educational structures, as well as more general discussion on academic paywalls, publishing, libraries, and other online ebook archives. We’ll listen to one podcast episode and read one short article to open up … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Illegal Archives (1pm, Mon 16 Oct)”
6 October 2023 by efa035