Postgraduate Research in English Literature
Page for Postgraduate Events and Research in English Literature
On Wednesday 26 May (from 9:30 am), we will be hosting our monthly Research day. This is an opportunity to work on your own research (while knowing that others are working at the same time), with periodic zoom calls to set and reflect on goals.
Our next Romance Reading Group online session is based on Contemporary Chick Lit & Feminism! Our next 20/21 session will be on next Thursday 29th April 2021 from 17:30-19:00, so save the date in your calendars! It will be on: Contemporary Chick Lit & Feminism. RSVP via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/contemporary-chick-lit-feminism This month, the Romance Reading Group will be dissecting … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group: Contemporary Chick Lit & Feminism”
On Wednesday 31 March (from 9:30 am), we will be hosting a Page Breaks Research day. This will be an opportunity to work on your own research (while knowing that others are working at the same time), with periodic zoom calls to set and reflect on goals.
For this week’s Page Breaks, we’re reading an extract from Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York. Thanks to Will Carroll for this suggestion!
On Wed 10 March 2021, join us for a spirited discussion of how Harold Bloom and Toni Morrison challenged our thinking about what (and how) to read.
In a counterpoint to our long-running session theme, Works Loved, this week we’re thinking about books that inspire the opposite emotion. Listen to the podcast ‘Books We Hate’, and come along to reflect on the discussion and share your own dislikes. (But don’t worry – Works Loved will be back soon, to remind us of … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Books We Hate”
For this week’s Page Breaks, we’re listening to an episode of ‘A Piece of Work’, a podcast about modern art based out of MOMA. This episode ‘The Writing on the Wall’ asks questions about how to achieve ‘authenticity’ in inherently reproducible pieces, and if words/language can be art.
Organised by PhD students Will Carroll and Rob Fitt, this is a friendly postgraduate workshop designed to provide feedback on work in progress for research peers.
Due to sickness, the Romance Reading Group session on ‘Queer Romance Novels’ has now been postponed to next week, Thursday 28th January at the same time, 17:30-18:30ish. We are very sorry for any inconvenience. Your registration will remain the same and so will the Zoom link you have been sent, but this will now work … Continue reading “POSTPONEMENT – Romance Reading Group: Queering the Romance, Thurs 28st January, 17:30-18:30ish”
Who knows what 2021 has in store for us – but Page Breaks, our weekly reading group for postgraduate researchers in english lit, will be back in the w/c 1 Feb. We’ll continue to meet weekly online via Zoom, and we look forward to seeing new and familiar faces!
