IES Winter Reads: A Midway Round-Up

IES Winter Reads: A Midway Round-Up

Over the winter months, the Institute of English Studies asked our staff and research fellows about their favourite winter reads. From the classic Dickens to a classic reinterpretation in the form of Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed, we’ve had a fantastic...
Call for Papers: Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult

Call for Papers: Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult

Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult Goldsmiths, University of London, 19-20 July 2018  Keynote speaker: Professor Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey)   Nineteenth-century Decadence coincided with a resurgence of esotericism, alternative religions, and a belief in...
Call for Papers: Literature and ‘The Woman Question’

Call for Papers: Literature and ‘The Woman Question’

Literature and ‘The Woman Question’ A Mark Rutherford Society Symposium hosted by RIMAP at the University of Bedfordshire Saturday 23 June 2018   ‘The Woman Question’ – encompassing not only debates over women’s suffrage, but gender equality more widely,...
Call for Papers: Brigid Brophy … in Transition

Call for Papers: Brigid Brophy … in Transition

“Brigid Brophy … in Transition”: Co-Editors: Professor Richard Canning and Visiting Professor Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, England In 2015, I and the ECW team at the University of Northampton ran a two-day international conference to celebrate all aspects...
Call for Papers: Oxford Research in English, Issue 7: Craft

Call for Papers: Oxford Research in English, Issue 7: Craft

“In my craft or sullen art” – Dylan Thomas Thomas is one in a long line who self-reflexively meditates on his own work. Indeed, a writer’s craft has been the topic of much discussion both by critics and by authors themselves, considering the interplay between a...