Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminars

The English Department at Durham regularly invites scholars from other Universities throughout the UK to present papers at research seminars. Recent highlights have included:

Professor Derek Attridge (University of York): J.M. Coetzee
Professor Rachel Bowlby (UCL): 'Where Ignorance is Bliss': Folly and Family Secrets
Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway): Slavery and the Weather: The Limitations of Trauma
Professor John Drakakis (Stirling): Shakespeare and Sovereign Process
Professor Lawrence Rainey (University of York): Sensational Secretaries in Modernity
Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College): The Trauma Paradigm
Professor Vicki Mahaffey (University of Illinois, Urbana): A Portrait of Joyce as a Sympathetic Villain: Melodrama, Forgery and Silent Film
Professor Richard North (UCL): Sex in Beowulf
Dr Peter Boxall (Sussex): The Ways We Think and See: DeLillo and Beckett
Dr Ronan McDonald: Darwinism, Degeneration and the Irish Revival
Professor Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, NZ): Beckett and Science

These seminars provide an opportunity for postgraduates and members of staff to come together in an informal environment to hear about and discuss the latest research. Postgraduate students are also encouraged to present papers at these seminars.

Next Seminar

Tolkien, Wales, and Brittany

4:30pm to 6:00pm, Seminar Room, Hallgarth House, Dr Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University)

A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

Contact jason.harding@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Archive of Previous Research Seminars

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tracing the Adivasi in Postcolonial Literary Studies 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr. Rashmi Varma (Warwick University)

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Staging Domestic Violence: Shakespeare's 'Othello' and Middleton's 'Yorkshire Tragedy' 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Gary Taylor (Florida State University)

Wednesday 2 November 2011

The Invention of Celtic Magic: Theorising Narrative in Medieval Wales 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Helen Fulton (University of York)

Wednesday 26 October 2011

The Origin of the Harp: Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Matthew Campbell (University of York)

Wednesday 9 March 2011

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME: 'Love and the Platonic Transcendent in the Fiction of Iris Murdoch,' by Dr. Miles Leeson (University of Portsmouth) 5:00pm to 6:30pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr. Miles Leeson(University of Portsmouth)

Wednesday 23 February 2011

''The powerful marvel of irony': Derrida and Structural Irony,' by Maebh Long (Durham University) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Maebh Lond

Wednesday 9 February 2011

'Editing Beckett’s unpublished story 'Echo’s Bones',' by Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading)

Wednesday 26 January 2011

'A Tale of Two Newmans: Victorian Faith, Doubt and Mathematical Certainty,' by Professor Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 8 December 2010

“Love and the Platonic Transcendent in the Fiction of Iris Murdoch,' by Dr Miles Leeson (University of Portsmouth) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr. Miles Leeson (University of Portsmouth)

Wednesday 24 November 2010

'‘This song to come, this reader to become’: Reading Blanchot’s Style of Paradox,” by Mario Aquilina (University of Malta) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Mario Aquilina (University of Malta)

Wednesday 3 March 2010

'Lobotomies and Botulism Bombs: Beckett’s Trilogy and the Cold War' 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 24 February 2010

''When dogs will become men': canine allegories, theriocephalous figures and the modernist melancholia of Virginia Woolf' 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr Jane Goldman

Wednesday 10 February 2010

SEMINAR CANCELLED: 'From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant: Women, Writing and the Sexuality of Botany, 1760-1830' 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr Samantha George (University of Hertfordshire)

Wednesday 27 January 2010

'Time For Love Gone By: Midlife Anxiety in the Novels of Charles Dickens' 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Kay Heath (Virginia State University)

Wednesday 9 December 2009

wickedness / was soluble in art': Re-vizing Adulterous Love in Berryman's Sonnets 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Amy Jordan (Durham University)

Wednesday 2 December 2009

Bowen's Telephones 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Aphasic Modernity: Theory's Speechless Symptom 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College)

Wednesday 28 October 2009

Veerer: Reading Melville's 'Bartleby' 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 14 October 2009

History as Space: Aby Warburg and Material to Cultural History 4:30pm to 7:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Dr Petri Vuojala (University of Oulu)

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'The Great Tew Circle,' by Professor Graham Parry (University of York) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House , Professor Graham Parry

Wednesday 4 March 2009

Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Stability Turned into Motion: Erasmus Darwin's Recourse to Ovid's Metamorphoses' by Dr. Sonja Fielitz (University of Marburg) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells and the End of Culture' by Dr. Simon James (University of Durham) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Global Culture and Interiority' by Professor Roy Boyne (University of Durham) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 4 February 2009

Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Gallant Little Swearers or Puny Weeds? Darwinism, Degeneration, and the Irish Revival,' by Dr. Rónán McDonald (University of Reading) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 3 December 2008

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Metkovic to Mostar: Pynchon and the Balklans,' by Dr. Sam Thomas (Durham University) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Some Experience of the Schizoid Voice: Samuel Beckett and the Language of Derangement,' by Dr. Shane Weller (University of Kent) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Hamlet, Macbeth and Sovereign Process,' by Professor John Drakakis (University of Stirling) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 29 October 2008

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Pirate Philosophy: Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media,' by Professor Gary Hall (Coventry University) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Sensational Secretaries, Melodramatic Modernity: Edna, Belle and Estelle,' by Professor Lawrence Rainey (University of York) 4:30pm to 4:30pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: ' From Epitaph to Obituary: The Forlorn Hic Jacet and the Romantic Writer,' by Dr Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 5 March 2008

'The Sex in Beowulf,' by Professor Richard North (UCL) 4:00pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 13 February 2008

''Where Ignorance is Bliss': Folly and Family Secrets,' by Professor Rachel Bowlby (UCL) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 6 February 2008

'A Portrait of Joyce as a Sympathetic Villain: Melodrama, Forgery, and Silent Film,' by Professor Vicki Mahaffey (University of York) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 23 January 2008

'The importance of manuscripts and primary materials for editing The Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot,' by Jim McCue (Institute of Advanced Study, University of London) 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 5 December 2007

English Department Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Weird Sex: Coetzee, Beckett, and Literary Influence,” by Professor Derek Attridge 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House

Wednesday 28 November 2007

English Department Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Slavery and the Weather: The Limitations of Trauma” 4:30pm to 6:00pm , Seminar Room, Hallgarth House