Queen Mary English Department Postgraduate Research Seminars
Programme for Spring Semester 2010
Venue: Lock-keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Time: 5.15 pm
14 January
Dr Patricia Pulham, University of Portsmouth
'Of Marble Men and Maidens: Sculpture, Sin, and Perversion in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.'
21 January
Dr Stefano Evangelista, Trinity College, Oxford
'Swinburne's Galleries: The Poet as Critic.'
28 January
Dr Andrew Gordon, University of Aberdeen
'Copycopia, or the Uses of Copied Correspondence in Court Culture: A Case Study.'
4 February
Professor Victor Sage, University of East Anglia
TBA
11 February
Dr Selene Scarsi, University of Hull
‘Did Ariosto Write It?’: (Mis)translating Women in Sir John Harington’s Orlando Furioso in English Heroicall Verse’
18 February Graduate Panel
Tessa Whitehouse: 'Textual Spaces for Learned Discourse: Dissenters' writings and their audiences'
Noah Moxham: 'Edmond Halley and the Philosophical Transactions'
25 February: READING WEEK
4 March
Dr Redell Olsen, Royal Holloway, University of London
TBA
11 March
Dr Emma Francis, University of Warwick
TBA
18 March
Dr Mat Dimmock, University of Sussex
'Let Your Light So Shine': Burnishing Elizabethan England with Islam.'
25 March
Dr Mary Flannery Queen Mary, University of London
'A Bloody Shame': The Inevitable Deaths of Chaucer's Virginia and Lucrece'