News and Events Archive (2011)
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| AHRC and Queen Mary Principal's Studentships The Department of English is pleased to offer up to eight AHRC and Queen Mary Principal’s Studentships for entry to its PhD programme in September 2012 to candidates wishing to develop a PhD in any area of the Department’s research expertise. Closing date: DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED. (12 Dec 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Professor Timothy Bewes (Brown) 'Against Exemplarity: W.G Sebald and the Novel', Thursday 15 December, 5.15 pm, in the Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit the Postgraduate Research Seminar blog page. (12 Dec 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Sheela Banerjee Congratulations to Dr Sheela Banerjee who was awarded the degree of PhD on 30 November 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'The Modernist Ghost: The Supernatural and Spectral in T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf', supervised by Michèle Barrett. (30 Nov 2011) |
| Santanu Das on 'Indian Heroes / Europe's Wars Watch Santanu Das being interviewed for an NDTV show on Indian experiences of the First World War (starting at 14min 18sec), which was broadcast on the international channel NDTV across North America, Europe and South Asia on 12-13 November. (20 Nov 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Dr Laleh Khalili (SOAS) 'Counterinsurgency Fictions', Thursday 08 December, 5.15 pm, in the Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit the Postgraduate Research Seminar blog page. (06 Dec 2011) |
| The Audience Through Time conference at Queen Mary (3 Dec) The School of English and Drama will be hosting the Audience Through Time conference on Saturday 3 December, with Professor Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) providing the key-note address. The conference will end with a performance of Kalagora, by Siddhartha Bose (a poet, playwright, performer, and a Leverhulme Fellow in Drama at QM) (21 Nov 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Professor Laura Doan (Manchester) 'Normal Soap? The Case of Nurse Harley', Thursday 24 November, 5.15 pm, in the Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit the Postgraduate Research Seminar blog page. (21 Nov 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents Pscyhoanalyist and Writer Darian Leader 'Mourning', Thursday 17 November, 5.15 pm, in the Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit the Postgraduate Research Seminar blog page. (16 Nov 2011) |
| Crabb Robinson Project: Major Publication Announcement Oxford University Press have just agreed to publish the multi-volume edition of the Diary and Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson, under the editorship of Tim Whelan and James Vigus. James will be joining the permanent staff of the Department of English in September 2012. (28 Oct 2011) |
| Megan Kitching Wins Eighteenth-Century Fiction Essay Prize Megan Kitching, a PhD student in English at Queen Mary, has won the 2011 Eighteenth-Century Fiction Graduate Essay Contest for an essay entitled: "The Solitary Animal: Professional Authorship and Persona in Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World". (27 Oct 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Dr Matthew Dimmock (Sussex) 'Faith and Fables: Writing the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern England.', Thursday 3 November, 5.15 pm, in the Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit the Postgraduate Research Seminar blog page. (02 Nov 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Prof. Clare Lees, (KCL) 'Early Medieval Literature in the Atlantic Archipelago', Thursday 27 October, 5.15 pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit our blog page (24 Oct 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Prof. Marina Warner (University of Essex) 'Inscribing power: Word magic, talismans and modern credit', Thursday 20 October, 5.15 pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage. Visit our blog page (17 Oct 2011) |
| 'End of Empire and the English Novel' at the British Academy The Department of English at Queen Mary, in conjunction with the British Academy, is pleased to present a Panel Discussion on the topic 'End of Empire and the English Novel', at the British Academy on Wednesday 02 November 2011. The event is free, but prior registration is required. (14 Oct 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Dr. Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent) Jennie Batchelor will present a paper called 'Gaining a "footing in the inclosure": The Lady's Magazine and Women's Literary Histories' on Thursday 13 October, 5.15 pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage (10 Oct 2011) |
| The 2011 Theo Crosby Fellowship Lecture entitled Scent on Stage will be given by Prof. Evelyn Welch on Tuesday 11 October. Book tickets online via the Shakespeare's Globe website. (06 Oct 2011) |
| Dr. Nadia Valman, an expert on Jewish history and literature will appear on The One Show on BBC 1 (Thurs 6 October) to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street (06 Oct 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Rosemary Hill Congratulations to Dr Rosemary Hill who was awarded the degree of PhD on 30 September 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Antiquaries in the Age of Romanticism: 1789-1851', supervised by Anne Janowitz (03 Oct 2011) |
| Postgraduate Research Seminar Presents: Prof. Quentin Skinner Thursday 6 October, 5.15 pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage (03 Oct 2011) |
| ASLE UK (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment UK) will hold its Postgraduate conference on the 9 and 10 September at Queen Mary on the theme of 'Emergent critical environments: Where next for ecology and the humanities?' (05 Sept 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Jacqueline Johnson Congratulations to Dr Jacqueline Johnson, who was awarded the degree of PhD on 31 August 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Elysabeth ye Quene': Understanding Representations of Elysabeth of York in the Tudor Period, 1485-1603, supervised by Julia Boffey and David Colclough. (31 Aug 2011) |
| East End My Cradle - Reissue Reception and Seminar, Friday 15 July You are warmly invited to a reception and seminar marking the Faber Finds reissue of Willy Goldman's classic memoir East End My Cradle (1940). The event runs between 2.00-4.00pm on Friday 15 July in the Lock-Keeper's Cottage on Queen Mary's Mile End campus. (04 Jul 2011) |
| Double Success in BBC 'New Generation Thinkers' Contest Congratulations to Rachel Hewitt and Shahidha Bari (both from the Department of English) who were selected as BBC Radio 3 'New Generation Thinkers' – also featured in today's Guardian – making Queen Mary the only university to achieve a double-win in the scheme. (28 Jun 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Anna Winterbottom Congratulations to Dr Anna Winterbottom, who was awarded the degree of PhD on 31 May 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Company Culture: Information, Scholarship, and the East India Company Settlements 1660-1720', supervised by Lisa Jardine and Felipe Fernández-Arnesto. (13 Jun 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Stephen Burley Congratulations to Dr Stephen Burley, who was awarded the degree of PhD on 30 April 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Hazlitt the Dissenter: Religion, Philosophy and Politics, 1766-1816', supervised by Isabel Rivers and David Wykes. (03 Jun 2011) |
| Layered Cities, Thursday 9 June Jeremy Gavron (An Acre of Barren Ground) and Leo Hollis (The Stones of London) will present papers on the theme Layered Cities: Recovering London's Buried and Occluded Life in the Lock-Keeper's Cottage (Mile End) on Thursday 09 June at 5.15pm, as part of the Four Summer Panels series. (01 Jun 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Tessa Whitehouse Congratulations to Dr Tessa Whitehouse who was awarded the degree of PhD on 31 May 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge: Letters, Lectures, and Lives in Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Culture', supervised by Isabel Rivers (31 May 2011) |
| Congratulations to Kyle Roberts and Simon Mills Congratulations to two Research Fellows at the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies on recent appointments: Dr Kyle Roberts has been appointed Assistant Professor of Public History and New Media at Loyola University, Chicago, from August 2011; and Dr Simon Mills has been appointed to a two-year Mellon/Newton Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at CRASSH, from October 2011. (27 May 2011) |
| Queen Mary's Department of English in UK Top 10 The Department of English is delighted to feature in the top 10 universities for the undergraduate study of English, coming 9th out of 106 institutions nationwide in The Guardian's 'University Guide 2012'. (23 May 2011) |
| New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Studies: Registration Now Open Register now for 'New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Studies' (Plenary Speaker: Lawrence Klein), the annual postgraduate conference of the Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, on Friday 10 June 2011. (20 May 2011) |
| Ear Worms and Warning Systems, Thursday 19 May Adam Trexler (Exeter) and Victoria Williamson (Goldsmiths) will present papers on the theme Ear Worms and Warming Systems: Climate Change, Pop Music, and the end of Disciplinarity? in the Lock-Keeper's Cottage (Mile End) on Thursday 19 May at 5.00pm, as part of the Four Summer Panels series. (16 May 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Paul Jarman Congratulations to Dr Paul Jarman, who was awarded the degree of PhD on 30 April 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Robert Southey's Original Madoc: A Transcript of the 1797-99 Manuscript, with a Detailed Analysis of its Development and Sources', supervised by Andrew Lincoln. (06 May 2011) |
| Literature Along the Euphrates, Thursday 5 May Nadia Atia (QMUL) and Keya Anjaria (SOAS) will present papers on the theme 'Literature Along the Euphrates: Writings from Iraq and Turkey' in the Lock-Keeper's Cottage (Mile End) on Thursday 5 May at 5.00pm, as part of the Four Summer Panels series. (28 Apr 2011) |
| Heart Religion: Registration Now Open Register now for 'Heart Religion', the 7th annual conference of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, on Saturday 21 May 2011. (27 Apr 2011) |
| Jacqueline Rose to lecture on Rosa Luxemburg Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English, will present a a public lecture entitled ''Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently' – Rosa Luxemburg for our times', to be co-hosted by the Gender Institute and The Ralph Miliband Programme, at LSE on Friday 6 May 2011. (26 Apr 2011) |
| The Literary Essay in English: Registration Now Open Registration is now open for 'The Literary Essay in English', a conference jointly hosted by Queen Mary, University of London, and the London Review of Books Bookshop, on 2-3 July 2011. (11 Apr 2011) |
| Launch of Dissenting Academies Online The School of English and Drama, together with the Dr Williams's Library, invites you to the launch of 'Dissenting Academies Online', an innovative digital resource for the history of the dissenting academies, to take place at the Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, on 11 June 2011. (02 Apr 2011) |
| PhD Announcement: Dr Kate Houlden Congratulations to Dr Kate Houlden, who was awarded the degree of PhD on 31 March 2011 for a dissertation entitled 'Sexuality in the Writing of Male Authors from the Anglophone Caribbean: Roger Mais, John Hearne, Jan Carew and Andrew Salkey', supervised by Bill Schwarz. (01 April 2011) |
| Professor Javed Majeed on BBC Radio 4 Javed Majeed was a key contributor last weekend to a BBC Radio 4 documentary, 'Man Versus God', discussing Muhammed Iqbal's epic poem Shikwa with storyteller Seema Anand. (28 Mar 2011) |
| Professor Isabel Rivers publishes Dissenting Praise Isabel Rivers and David Wykes (the co-directors of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies) have just published an edited collection of essays Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales. Further details can be found on the OUP website. (03 Mar 2011). |
| New Generation Thinkers in the Department of English Congratulations to Shahidha Bari, Rachel Hewitt, Matthew Taunton, and Will Tosh, who are among the last 57 (out of more than 1000 applicants) in this year's 'New Generation Thinkers', a joint AHRC / BBC Radio 3 initiative to discover the next generation of public intellectuals. (04 Feb 2011). |