READ mainly features work conducted by the academic staff and early-career researchers within the Department of English Studies. We also host guest posts from external researchers, writers and arts organisations, especially those based in the North East of England. READ is edited by Alistair Brown.
Researchers on READ
Follow the links below to find posts by our various contributors. Full biographical and research profiles of all researchers in the English Department can be found at our main website:
- Aalia Ahmed
- Sharihan Al-Akhras
- Arya Aryan
- Elizabeth Archibald
- Nicoletta Asciuto
- Paul Batchelor
- Clare Blackstone-Barker
- Gillian Boughton
- Alistair Brown
- Megan Cavell
- Mark Chambers
- John Clegg
- Pamela Clemit
- Colin Davey
- Elizabeth Drialo
- Anne-Marie Dunn
- Carissa Foo
- Sophie Franklin
- David Fuller
- Peter Garratt
- Abbie Garrington
- Timothy Glover
- Mandy Green
- Daniel Grausam
- Simon Grimble
- Jason Harding
- Siobhan Harper
- Annabel Haynes
- David Herman
- Andrew Hodgson
- Jennifer Hodgson
- Niall Hodson
- Emily Van Houten
- Nao Igarashi
- Gasper Jakovac
- Simon J James
- Amy Jordan
- Cheryl Julia Lee
- Sarah Lohmann
- Michael Mack
- Marina MacKay
- Kaja Marczewska
- Naomi Marklew
- Alasdair MacFarlane
- Laura McKenzie
- Jamie McKinstry
- Alison McManus
- Emma Miller
- Jahnavi Misra
- Richard Moss
- Antony Mullen
- Chris Murray
- Helen O’Connell
- Ryan O’Connor
- Michael O’Neill
- Ellen Orange
- Lauren Owen
- Avishek Parui
- Michael Plygawko
- James Quinnell
- Barbara Ravelhofer
- Vidyan RavinthiranVidyan Ravinthiran
- Gareth Reeves
- Stephen Regan
- Abigail Richards
- Fraser Riddell
- Emily Ridge
- Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
- Curtis Runstedler
- Mark Sandy
- Corinne Saunders
- Dugyu Senocak
- Michael Shallcross
- Amy Smith
- Robert Shepherd
- James Smith
- Eleanor Spencer-Regan
- Thomas Spray
- Alice Stamataki
- Abigail Steed
- Adam Stock
- Richard Sugg
- Jennifer Terry
- Samuel Thomas
- Joseph Thorne
- David Varley
- Chutian Xiao
- Patricia Waugh
- Sarah Wootton
Complete Archive of Posts
Below is a listing of all posts published on READ since it was established in April 2012:
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in December 2019
- Spoken Word & Open Mic Night (25th November)
- Smuggling John Steinbeck’s Fiction
- Beautiful Circularity: Review of Jane Eyre, Produced by Blackeyed Theatre
- PhD and Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
- Navigating the Writer’s Ethical Maze: Review of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, at Durham Book Festival
- Kate Clanchy: Poems for Durham Lumiere (Poetry reading, 14th November)
- New Podcast: Future Memory and Circular Time in Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’
- Earth of Eternity: Shelley and Existence (Seminar, 14th November)
- Seal vous play, mairsee: Reading the 1944 Pocket Guide to France
- CANCELLED This Place is Going to the Dogs (Film screening, 9th November)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in November 2019
- New Podcast: The Classical Underworld as a Memoryscape
- Reading the Roots of America’s Literary Pumpkins
- ‘Tonight I see the fires of eternal damnation’: Review of Athol Fugard’s Playland, produced by Elysium Theatre Company
- Worlds of Print: Creative Writing in Colonial West Africa (Public lecture, 7th November)
- Between Memory and the Future: Medieval Romance (Public memorial lecture, 6th November)
- White Wombs, Jewish Doctors and Saracen Mummies (Seminar, 30th October)
- Not As It Seems: Review of the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 at Durham Book Festival
- The Symbolic Violence of Books: Review of How to Make an Atrocity at Durham Book Festival
- Scotland, Spitfires, Secrets: Review of Kirsty Wark’s The House by the Loch at Durham Book Festival
- Shoestring Press Poetry Reading (17th October)
- Written in Water: 200 Years of John Keats’ Odes (Poetry Reading and Music, 15th October)
- Open House: In Conversation with Sunjeev Sahota
- Resistance and Repetitive Beats: Review of Dave Randall’s Sound System at Durham Book Festival
- Sinking, Sealing, Swooning: In Conversation with Naomi Booth
- Why the Techniques of Troll Farms are not Wholly New
- Terror in Literature: The Middle Ages and Now (Public Lecture, 9th October)
- Lord of the Flies, Female Leaders and a Fragile Democracy: An Interview with Director Annie Rigby on Staging William Golding’s Novel
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in October 2019
- Processing Playland: Jake Murray on Directing Athol Fugard’s Drama (Part 2)
- New Podcast: Bakhtin and Shakespeare
- Race and Reconciliation: Jake Murray on Directing Athol Fugard’s Playland (Part 1)
- The Geographic and Linguistic Identity of the American Midwest (Public Lecture, 2nd October)
- Adolf and His Donkey Benito: Guy Woodward on the Wartime Propaganda Cartoons of Kem
- Classical Music, Conflict, and Identity in the Contemporary Novel (Public Lecture, 25th September)
- New Podcast: Wandering Across Scandinavia in Egils Saga
- A Short History of Choose-Your-Own Adventure (Public Lecture, 18th September)
- Future Memory and Circular Time in Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’ (Public Lecture, 11th September)
- Contrary Mary: Four Medieval Manuscripts that Reveal the Complexities of the Virgin Mary
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in September 2019
- The Classical Underworld as a Memoryscape (Public Lecture, 4th September)
- Bakhtin and Shakespeare (Public Lecture, 21st August)
- New Podcast: Sounds Unreal
- Durham Book Festival 2019
- Wandering Across Scandinavia in Egils Saga (Public Lecture, 14th August)
- New Podcast: Liz Berry’s Locations and Locutions
- Time and Space: Late Summer Lectures 2019
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in August 2019
- New Podcast: Aurélia Lassaque on Poetry Across Languages
- Remembering Ourselves: Review of The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché
- New Podcast: The Pleasures and Challenges of Contemporary Literature
- ‘Now Flying over the Hell-mouth’: The Gap Between St Guðlac and Nordic Volcano Imagery
- Durham Miners and Wartime Propaganda
- Why Wordsworth’s Excursion deserves to be included among his finest poems
- Muriel Spark’s Mythologisers
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in July 2019
- The Author(s) of the Book of Jeremiah
- New Issue of Postgraduate English Journal (Volume 38, Spring 2019)
- The Political Warfare Executive and British Culture (Public seminar, 27th June)
- Dragons! Tales and Music from the North East (Performance, 17th June)
- The surprising role of literature in the D-Day liberation
- SPEAK: A New Poetry Salon for the North East
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in June 2019
- Watch Souls of the North Come Back to Life
- Romanticism and the Uncharitable Quip
- Sound Words: Hymns in Twentieth-Century Literature
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in May 2019
- Consent: Histories, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future
- Creative Voices: A workshop for writers (11th May)
- Colpitts Poetry Spring Reading (12th April)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in April 2019
- The myth of British good-humour and resilience was born during World War II and is about to die a Brexit death
- Listen to What We Say: Review of Miss Julie, Produced by Elysium Theatre Company
- New Podcast: Crash and Burn: A Poetry Reading in Memory of Michael O’Neill
- 16 Metal Tracks and Songs Influenced by Literature
- Headbangers and Pageturners: Sam Thomas on the Surprising Links Between Metal and Literature
- Miss Julie Now and in the North: An Interview with Jake Murray (Part 2)
- Miss Julie and Me: An Interview with Jake Murray (Part 1)
- Breath in Poetry (Public talk, 12th March)
- A Puck of Poetry: Review of Mischief, by Peter Bennet
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in March 2019
- New Podcast: Not World’s Apart: A Conversation on Philosophy and Literature with Michael Mack and Barry Stocker
- Preaching to the Choir: A Sceptical Look at Carthusian Transmission of Vernacular Spiritual Writing (Public Lecture, 9th March)
- George Eliot and the Victorian Extended Mind (Seminar, 27th February)
- Masters of Deceit: Introducing #SparkQuoteoftheWeek
- UniSlam Poetry Success
- Heating the Human Climate (Public lecture, 25th February)
- What was John Truslove playing at in church?
- Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, and America: Hollywood, Death, and the Religious Life (Public Lecture, 12th February)
- Muriel Spark, Propaganda and Plausibility
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in February 2019
- New Podcast: Snake Women: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories
- A Conversation with John Milton
- New Podcast: Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down
- Paul Muldoon reads W.B Yeats (Free public reading, 31st January)
- Michael O’Neill (1953-2018)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in January 2019
- How to cook a human in Old Norse literature
- Why you need to know about Gudrun, one of the original badass women
- Watermarks: Review of The River, Produced by Elysium Theatre Company
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in December 2018
- New Podcast: Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- New Issue of Postgraduate English Journal (Volume 37, 2018)
- Crying Wolf
- Rivers of Love
- New Podcast: The Stream of Consciousness in William Wordsworth and James Joyce
- Northern Words (Spoken word poetry, 29th November)
- Herd Mentality: Review of The Secret Life of Cows at Durham Book Festival
- Souls of the North (Free performance, 10th November)
- Back to Back Poetry: Review of Michael O’Neill and Jamie McKendrick at Durham Book Festival
- Patriotism and Dissent: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the Pleasures of the Imagination (Public lecture, 15th November)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in November 2018
- The Great Northern Soul Cake Bake
- Avians and Aviators: Review of Simon Armitage at Durham Book Festival
- Loving Lies: Review of The Gordon Burn Prize 2018, at Durham Book Festival
- Lyrically Profound: Review of Keith James’ The Songs of Leonard Cohen at Durham Book Festival
- Curate Your Army: Review of Can We All Be Feminists? with Soofiya Andry at Durham Book Festival
- The House that Jack Built: Review of Lamanby at Durham Book Festival
- Living with a Legacy: Review of Miranda Seymour’s In Byron’s Wake at Durham Book Festival
- The Doll’s Alphabet (Author reading, 26th October)
- Extinction Elegies: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Ecology (28th October)
- Finding Old Friends: Review of Persephone Books at Durham Book Festival
- ‘We’re all bloody weird’: Review of Robin Ince’s I’m a Joke and So Are You at Durham Book Festival
- Revisiting the Beginning: Review of Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls at Durham Book Festival
- Bringing Hild Home: Review of Vibeke Vasbo and Gaye Kynoch at Durham Book Festival
- Women’s Suffrage Has Not Started Yet: Review of Radical Women at Durham Book Festival
- New Podcast: Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve
- An Acute Adolescence: Review of playtime, by Andrew McMillan
- Till We Shine: Review of The Green Hollow at Durham Book Festival
- Five Literary Facts About Durham City
- New Podcast: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature
- Conversations Across Continents with the Durham-Jordan Creative Exchange
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in October 2018
- Tales of wonder, the Gothic, and Islamic Mythology in Contemporary Literature (Public lecture, 5th September)
- ‘Victims in a Vacuum’: Inscribing Identities in Childhood and Deathbed Scenes (Public lecture, 26th September)
- Scaling the Heights (Exhibition, 21st September to 21st December)
- Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Public lecture, 19th September)
- In your daydreams, do you imagine the future or revisit your past?
- The Stream of Consciousness in the Works of William Wordsworth and James Joyce (Public lecture, 12th September)
- Elegy: New Approaches (Conference, 14th September)
- What’s your favourite moment from the end of a Shakespeare play?
- Souls of the North (Free performance, 12th September)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in September 2018
- Poetry and Translation: With David Preiss and Gareth Reeves (Poetry reading, 4th September)
- Fire stopped play: Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down (Public lecture, 5th September)
- Review of The Song of Hild by Vibeke Vasbo, translated by Gaye Kynoch
- ‘Registers of petition in Thomas Hoccleve’ and ‘Resistance and Persistence in Medieval Romance Literature’ (Public lectures, 29th August)
- New Podcast: Rachael Boast on the Language and Sound of Poetry
- Durham Book Festival 2018
- Sacred Symbols, Snake-Women and Sisterhood: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories (Public lectures, 15th August)
- “The Beginning of Sound Film -The End of Literary Modernism?” and “The Rise of Populism and a Call for the New Sincerity in Contemporary Fiction” (Public lectures, 15th August)
- Calling All Lumbering Devils and Renaissance Ladies: Volunteer for the ‘Souls of the North’ Show
- The Writer and The Estate Agent
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in August 2018
- Decoding the Ancestral Land: The Poetics of Place, Space and Time in V. S. Naipaul’s India Trilogy
- Guy’s Transformation in Stanzaic Guy of Warwick as a Sensory Experience
- Scaling the Heights: Miniature Mountaineering (Public talk, 21st July)
- Beginnings and Endings: Late Summer Lectures 2018
- The Huge Power of a Tiny Book
- Literary Birds (CFP, 15th August; Conference, 11th-12th October)
- What’s On: North East Book and Literature Events in July 2018
- Unruly Women: A Performance by Dr Daisy Black (Free Performance, 9th July)
- What are your top tips for overcoming writers block?
- New Podcast: JL Williams on the Origins of Her Poetry
- New Issue of Postgraduate English Journal (Volume 36, Spring 2018)
- Nineteenth-Century Poetics of Place (Conference, 22nd June)
- New Podcast: Explore Utopian York
- What’s your favourite poem about New York?
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in June 2018
- Elegy: New Approaches (Call for Papers, 15th July; Conference, 14th September)
- Symposium of Sound: ‘The rest is silence’ (Call for Papers, 14th June; Conference, 3rd to 4th September)
- New Podcast: Will Harris on Becoming a Poet
- Have you ever found a character in a novel was so vivid, you could still ‘hear’ their voice even when you’d stopped reading?
- Reflections on Charlotte Brontë: a personal view of ‘an independent will’ (Talk and Book Launch, 6th June)
- New Podcast: Polly Atkin on the Places of Her Poetry
- Painting Thomas Hardy’s Novels: The Lost Earring
- Gillian Allnutt Launches her New Collection, wake (Reading and Book Launch, 23rd May)
- New Podcast: Gillian Allnutt on a Life in Poetry
- Painting Thomas Hardy’s Novels: Elfride Watching the Ship
- If you had your own coat of arms what would be on it, and why?
- Muslim American Minority Literature, and London’s Heraldic History (Seminar, 9th May)
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in May 2018
- Painting Thomas Hardy’s Novels: The Cliffhanger Scene
- What novel would you like to see adapted as a TV box set?
- Painting Thomas Hardy’s Novels: Elfride and Stephen Fall in Love
- What is your favourite dragon in literature?
- Why Judge Holden is One of Literature’s Greatest Villains
- Ordering the Eighteenth-Century Essay (Seminar, 25th April)
- What’s your favourite book in translation?
- Apply for the Bamburgh Library Fellowships 2018
- Who Would You Add to this List of the Top Ten British and Irish Novelists?
- Reimagining the Wordsworths: Poetry and Diaries
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in April 2018
- Why does theatre matter to you?
- Twenty-five years of Madness and Modernism (Symposium, 11 May 2018)
- New Podcast: Michael O’Neill Launches His Poetry Collection, Return of the Gift
- What’s your favourite book or poem about springtime?
- Re-Imagining the Wordsworths: A Soundpiece
- Review of Hell, Heaven and Hope: A journey through life and afterlife with Dante
- Breath in Fiction and Poetry (Public lecture, 14th March)
- The absurdly meaningful quest for purpose in King Lear and Hamlet
- What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in March 2018
- Songs of the Spuggies – Review of Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North East England
- My Accent Changes with the Landscape: An Interview with Third Culture Kid Author, Abeer Hoque
- The Bamburgh Library and a Puzzle of Books
- Discoveries in Durham’s Bamburgh Library
- What would you do while waiting for Godot?
- ‘Some Scurrilous King’: Judge Holden and the Spectre of Shakespeare’s Monarchs in Blood Meridian
- New Podcast: Becoming Sea: A Blurred Lyric of the Ocean
- Filth, Fornication, and Four-Letter Words (Seminar, 19th February)
- Beckett, The Breath and The Choreographic (Public lecture, 21st February)
- Which literary characters send a shiver down your spine?
- Return of the Gift (Poetry Reading and Book Launch, 15th Feb)
- From Dalhousie to Durham: Kathleen Cawsey on a Medieval City, Medieval Literature, and…Misogynistic Dentists
- Norse in the North Annual Conference: Emotions and Mindsets in Old Norse Literature and Society (CFP 21st March, Conference 9th June)
- The Dichotomy of them and us in Alan Sillitoe’s Fiction
- Which childrens’ books do you love to re-read as an adult?
- The Marina Project (Public lecture, 6th February)
- North East Literature and Book Events in February 2018
- DurhamCon Sci-Fi and Fantasy Convention (3rd February)
- The Poetry of Paul Celan (Public lecture, 7th February)
- The Fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Breath in Choral Singing (Lecture-workshop, 29th January)
- Andrew McMillan performs his Durham Book Festival poem, ‘Coalfield Dementia’
- Breath in Vocal Technique (Lecture-workshop, 17th January)
- North East English Literature Events in January 2018
- Charles Dickens and Christmas Time
- The World is Never Quiet (Performance, 26th January 2018)
- The Magic Lantern from the Necromancers to the Marketplace
- Romanticism Across the Atlantic: Voyages in the Armstrong Browning Library
- Personification Across Disciplines (Call for Papers, 9th Feb 2018; Conference, 17th-19th Sept 2018)
- Twenty-Five Years of Critical and Cultural Theory
- Walpole’s Diminutions (Public lecture, 12th December)
- New Issue of Postgraduate English Journal (Volume 35, 2017)
- North East English Literature and Book Events in December 2017
- Day of All Saints: An Interview with Patricia Grace King
- Monstrum: The Castle of Otranto, Gothic Fiction and the Origins of Genre (Public lecture, 5th December)
- Undergraduates! Publish Your Work in the Durham English Review
- Analysing Breaking Bad (Public seminar, 4th December)
- Walpole, Vampires, and the Undead (Public lecture, 28th November)
- How Poetry Helped to Solve a 70 Year Mystery
- Visualising the Ephemeral: Breath in Visual Art (Public lecture, 29th November)
- What Links the Language of Brexit Today to the Language of Marriage 400 Years Ago
- Walpole, Burney, and the Tragedy of Incest (Public lecture, 21st November)
- New Podcast: When Masters Became Tragic Heroes
- A Note on Poetry, Breath, Lines and Punctuation
- The King’s English: language, colonialism and the nation state 1537-1617 (Seminar, 15th November)
- Greenth (Public lecture, 14st November)
- New Podcast: Eugenics in Utopian Literature
- Breath, Pulse and Measure in 20th Century American Poetry (Public lecture, 15th November)
- “Pictures” and “Signs”: Creative Thinking in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prose
- Roundup: Durham Book Festival 2017
- Universal and Eternal: Review of Discovering Dante at Durham Book Festival
- Bringing Out What Is Good: Review of Outsiders at Durham Book Festival
- Walpole, Catholicism, and the Visual Arts (Public lecture, 7th November)
- North East English Literature Events in November 2017
- A Living Library: Review of Discovering Dante, at Durham Book Festival
- Arts of Breath: Lecture-Performance Series (15th November – 14th March)
- Listen to Lost Voices from the North East (25th November)
- Ali Smith’s Autumn: Why Brexit may be Good for British Fiction
- The Naked City: New York Modernism 1845 / 1919 / 1947 (Public lecture, 31st October)
- Creativity and Collaboration: The Case of The Mysterious Mother (Public lecture, 31st October)
- The Present Conditions for Life: Review of Martin Dyar
- New Podcast: Dickens’s Ghosts: An Altered Perspective
- Cunning and Art: Review of Leásungspell, by Bob Beagrie
- Thatcherism Now (Call for Papers, 3rd November)
- Where Do I Fit? Review of The Road to Somewhere at Durham Book Festival
- Homo Sapiens Suck: Review of The News as a Novel at Durham Book Festival
- Rich Seams: Review of the Northern Poetry Gala at Durham Book Festival
- Composers of Architecture: Walpole and Beckford (Public lecture, 24th October)
- Skinny Dipping and Death: Review of The Anna Karenina Fix at Durham Book Festival
- New Podcast: Fiction and the Victorian Vivisector
- Taking off the Stabilisers: Review of Robert Webb at Durham Book Festival
- Review of The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst
- Not Just About Broad Beans: Review of Allan Jenkins and Alys Fowler at Durham Book Festival
- Walpole as Designer (Public lecture, 17th October)
- Our History Defines Us: Review of Sinéad Morrissey, Colette Bryce and Tara Bergin at Durham Book Festival
- Poetry Reading with Martin Dyar (17th October)
- Happy Symmetry: Review of Sinéad Morrissey, Colette Bryce, and Tara Bergin at Durham Book Festival
- Rich Seams: A New Generation of Poets from the North (14th October)
- Poetry Reading with Olive Senior (12th October)
- Everybody Needs Good Neighbours
- Others
- Writing to the Moment: Walpole’s Letters (Public lecture, 10th October)
- New Podcast: Tics in the Theatre: The ‘Quiet Audience’ and the Neurodivergent Spectator
- Politicians: Our Greatest Storytellers?
- North East English Literature Events in October 2017
- Review of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova
- A Sea-Change: Contemporary Poetry and the Coastline (Public lectures, 4th October)
- Five Ways Horace Walpole Influences Us Today
- Introducing Half a Creature from the Sea, by David Almond
- Four Ways Dante Still Matters Today
- New Podcast: Albion: Change, Rebirth and Stagnancy in The Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle
- How Taylor Swift became a femme fatale…with a little help from Sylvia Plath
- Apocalypse or Utopia: What Comes Next (Public lecture, 27th September)
- Five Thought-Provoking Quotes by Horace Walpole
- New Podcast: Alfred the Great Through History
- Writing Across Languages: English and Chinese Poetry
- What Dante Means to Me
- Life, Death and the Victorians (Public lecture, 20th September)
- Books That Help Us Through Challenging Times in Life
- Changing Entertainment: The Magic Lantern and the Nineteenth Century (Public lecture, 13th September)
- John Milton, Liberty and Arab Academics: The Case of Mona Prince
- North East English Literature Events in September 2017
- Tics in the Theatre: The ‘Quiet Audience’ and the Neurodivergent Spectator (Public lecture, 6th September)
- Domestic Tragedy and Change in Early Modern Theatre (Public lecture, 30th August)
- Durham Book Festival 2017
- Passionate about communications? Hearing the Voice are hiring!
- Bad and Lewd Youths in Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Alfred the Great through History (Public lecture, 23rd August)
- New Podcast: Feminist Utopias and Afrofuturism
- Neo-Victorian Decadences (Conference, 8th-9th September)
- Albion: Change, Rebirth and Stagnancy in The Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle (Public lecture, 16th August)
- HG Wells double bill: The Time Machine and Time After Time (Film screening, 13th August)
- Listening Back to Late Summer Lectures
- North East English Literature Events in August 2017
- Why Ann Quin’s Tripticks is a Road Trip Novel for Our Time
- New Podcast: H.G. Wells in Focus
- Changing Times with Late Summer Lectures 2017
- How Cognitive Science May Explain the Magic of Theatre
- Can Novelists Predict the Future? (Public talk, 26th July)
- Medieval medicine can offer surprising insights into our own practice
- New Podcast: An Introduction to Time Machines
- The Poetry of ‘Italicization’: Acts of Perception in Louis MacNeice’s ‘Snow’ and ‘Train to Dublin’
- Shaping the Future: How Feminist Utopian Novels Used New Concepts of Time to Create Better Worlds for Everyone (Public Talk, 19th July)
- The Brontës: Vulgar, Violent and Coarse?
- Making Sense of the Colonial Encounter in Conrad’s Shorter Indian Ocean Fiction
- Postgraduate English Call for Submissions (Deadline, 28th August 2017)
- North East English Literature Events in July 2017
- The Coarseness of the Brontës: A Reappraisal (Conference, 10 – 11th August 2017)
- Unlocking the Secrets of Medieval Musical Manuscripts
- New Issue of Postgraduate English (Number 34, 2017)
- Encyclopedia Entries on Middle English Literary Works (CFP)
- Time Machines: Time Travellers (Interactive story show, 22nd June)
- Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Conference, 11th-12th July)
- Gower, His Contemporaries, and Their Legacy in MSS and Early Printed Books, 1350-1550 (Conference, 9th-14th July)
- Storytelling as Time Travel and Counter Futures in Contemporary Black Fiction and Art (Talks, 19th June)
- Simon James to help judge the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2017
- New Podcast: Breaking Free Landmark – Paradise Lost
- Postdoctoral Research: A Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Training Workshop (14th June)
- North East English Literature Events in June 2017
- Utopia in Dark Times (Public talk, 7th June)
- Five Arthurian Films You Should See Instead of Legend of the Sword
- Writing the Divide: Literary Culture and Political Engagement in the 1930s (Free conference, 16th June)
- Meet the Dragon and the Bone Queen (3rd June)
- Time travel: a conversation between a scientist and a literature professor
- Time Machines: The Past, the Future, and How Stories Take us There
- The Handmaid’s Tale is a Fable for Our Times
- Narrating the Spaces of War: Witnessing, Testimony, Evidence, Archives (Workshop, 7th June)
- Brexit and the Democratic Intellect
- Sex and Sensuality: How Modern Fiction has Reinvented Victorian Decadence
- The Poetry Exchange – Pop Up Poetry Swap (8th May)
- North East English Literature Events in May 2017
- Catholicism, Literature and the Arts: 1850 – Present (Conference, 5th-7th July)
- Towards a Literary Prehistory of the Welfare State, 1880-1920 (Public lecture, 4th May)
- Not Your Average Yorkshire Wedding
- From the poet’s mouth: Poetry, culture and the literary scene in Tübingen (Poetry reading, 26th and 27th April)
- Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World (CFP 14th April; Conference 11th-12th July)
- Horace Walpole and his Legacies: A Tercentenary Colloquium (5th May)
- North East English Literature Events in April 2017
- Call for Presenters: Late Summer Public Lectures 2017
- Neo-Victorian Decadences (CFP 2nd July, Conference 8th-9th September)
- ‘Interpreting (with) Freud’: Laplanche, Hoffmann and the Copernican Birth of Unconscious Drives
- Celebrate World Poetry Day with these essays on poetry across cultures
- ‘That skull had a tongue in it’: Skulls, the Flesh, and the Individual in Early Modern Drama
- Interview with Alex Wilson
- Writing the Divide: Literary Culture and Political Engagement in the 1930s (CFP 30th March, Conference 16th June)
- Per Aspera Ad Astra: Conflicts and Challenges of Spirit in Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
- Celebrate International Women’s Day 2017 with These Essays on Gender and Literature
- ‘Such a death were sweet’: Invitingly Deadly Waters in the Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
- North East English Literature Events in March 2017
- Celebrate Northern Poetry on Basil Bunting’s Birthday (Poetry readings, 1st March)
- New Podcast: Margaret Thatcher and Pornography
- Changing States: Examining Postmodern concepts of adaptation in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
- Incantatory Yeats (Public lecture, 23rd February)
- The Coarseness of the Brontës: A Reappraisal (Call for Papers, 31st March; Conference, 10-11th August)
- Playful but Problematic: Medieval Humour and Contemporary Performance
- ‘Give a hand to your neighbour’: Margaret Thatcher and Pornography (Public lecture, 14th February)
- New Issue of Postgraduate English (Number 33, 2016)
- Dressing the Devil
- Voices, Visions, and Divine Inspiration (Public lecture, discussion and poetry reading, 18th February)
- North East English Literature Events in February 2017
- Eating well and making merry: a guide to letting loose Renaissance-style
- Poetry for Trying Times (Reading, 2nd February)
- Psychosis, Agency, and Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Workshop (15th February)
- Child prodigies in the nineteenth century and now
- It’s important to listen to imaginary voices – just ask Virginia Woolf
- Colpitts Poetry: Mark Ford and Gareth Reeves (26th January)
- How Herman Melville Foresaw the Rise of Donald Trump
- Dickens and Over-hearing (Public Lecture, 26th January)
- Review of The Poems of Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share
- North East English Literature Events in January 2017
- Literary Minds (Public symposium, 21st January)
- Voices, knowledge and ignorance: Reflections on experiences of Company (Public discussion, 20th January)
- Company, by Samuel Beckett (Performances, 16th to 20th January)
- The Surprising Links Between Paradise Lost and the Qur’an
- New Podcast: Alchemy, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Holy Grail
- Sex, Lies and Rhetorical Responsibility: ‘Trumping it’ in the Renaissance
- HOP Collaboratory 2 – call for papers!
- Christmas Poems: A Poetic Celebration of Winter, Christmas and the North (Reading, 12th December)
- The Empathetic Imagination and the Dream of Equality: Shakespeare’s “Poetical Justice” (Public lecture, 8th December)
- North East English Literature Events in December 2016
- New Podcast: Breathing in Science Fiction
- Interview with Curtis Runstedler
- Katrina Porteous and Preti Taneja (Poetry reading, 2nd December)
- Tales of Space and Time: H.G. Wells and Victorian time travel (Public lecture, 6th December)
- Light in Literature: Special Issue of Romanticism
- ‘The best words in the best order’: Poetry in Durham and the North East (Exhibition, until 26th February)
- Debating Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy
- Catholicism, Literature, and the Arts, 1850 to the Present (CFP, 16th December; Conference 5th-7th July)
- Introducing the Renaissance Hub
- The Defacement of Irish Modernism (Seminar, 16th November)
- The Good Story: Arabella Kurtz in conversation with Angela Woods (Public talk, 17th November)
- Report on Caribbean and Diasporic Culture, Creativity and Research
- Scale and the Quandaries of an ‘Environmental’ Literary Criticism (Public lecture, 10th November)
- Islands in Ink
- North East English Literature Events in November 2016
- The Kensington Poltergeist
- ‘George Orwell’s Worst Nightmare’: Cybersecurity and Surveillance in Screen Narratives after Edward Snowden (Seminar, 2nd November)
- New Podcast: The Gothic Theology of Frankenstein
- Review of The Ferryhill Philosophers
- Review of Writing the First World War, with Pat Barker and Michael Morpurgo
- Review of An Evening with Alan Johnson
- The Dance of Death in Image and Experience (Public talk, Hexham, 22nd October)
- Curators of Solitude: Review of George Monbiot and Ewan McLennan – Breaking the Spell of Loneliness
- Review of What Makes a Classic?
- Review of Tipping Point: Climate Change and the Stories We Tell
- Northern (Power)House of God
- The Weight We Carry is Love: Review of Love and Loss, with Cathy Rentzenbrink and Decca Aitkenhead
- Review of The Gordon Burn Prize 2016
- Thatcher and Thatcherism: New Critical Perspectives (CFP 21st October, Conference 19th-20th January)
- The Brontë Diaries: Anne’s Anxieties
- The Politics of Fact and Fiction
- North East Literature Events in October 2016
- The Brontë Diaries: Emily’s Homely Life
- “Whisht! Lads”: The Lambton Worm, Medievalism(s) and Radical Jack the Earl of Durham (Public lecture, 5th October)
- Young Poets and Performance: An Interview with the Organisers of Knee Deep
- Deciphering the Diaries of Anne and Emily Brontë
- The Forms of Loneliness
- New Podcast: Cuthbert: A Not So Benevolent Saint
- Alchemy, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Holy Grail (Public lecture, 28th September)
- How Robert Graves’ Poetry Helps Us Understand Shell Shock
- H.G. Wells at 150
- Sacred Monster: The Gothic Theology of Frankenstein (Public lecture, 21st September)
- ‘Whisht! Lads’: The Rival Worms of County Durham
- Register now for Twenty-Five Years of Regeneration: A Pat Barker Symposium (Conference, 15th October)
- “After that Summer, Nothing Would be the Same Again”: Sex, Death, and Nostalgia at the Seaside (Public lecture, 14th September)
- New Podcast: The Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination
- Saintly Bodies, Cult, and Ecclesiastical Identity in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
- North East English Literature Events in September 2016
- Breathing in Science Fiction (Public lecture, 7th September)
- The Minimalist Literary Aesthetic and Current Forms of Communication in the English Language (Public lecture, 31st August)
- Durham Book Festival 2016
- Imagined Surfaces: the ‘Undetermined Capacity’ in Henry James
- Become a Reviewer in Residence at Durham Book Festival 2016
- Cuthbert: A not so benevolent saint (Public lecture, 24th August)
- New Podcast: Celebrating the Brontës
- “I don’t believe in the future. I think we’re all doomed”: The Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination (Public lecture, 17th August)
- The Afterlives of Eve (Conference, 9th-11th September)
- Postgraduate English Call for Submissions (Deadline, 30th September 2016)
- Top of the Podcasts: Five Years of Late Summer Lectures
- Discover new perspectives on literature at Late Summer Lectures 2016
- North East English Literature Events in August 2016
- Bridging Music and Language in Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Trio and Nacht und Träume
- Pat Waugh elected as Fellow of the British Academy
- Sarah Wootton wins the Elma Dangerfield Prize for her book, Byronic Heroes
- New Podcast: Catholic Recusants in Performance
- What Brief Interviews with Hideous Men can tell us about rape culture
- Haliwerfolc 2.0 Poetry and Songs from the Seam (11th July)
- Watch the Crucifixion and the Death of Christ (10th July)
- Beware the Durham Dragon!
- Risking the Future: Vulnerability, Resistance, Hope (Conference, 12-13 July)
- From the Lighthouse Issue Three
- North East English Literature Events in July 2016
- How E.M. Forster and Igor Stravinsky Thought About the “Primitive”
- Cuckoo Young Writers Summer School (2nd-4th August)
- Watch the Oldest Play from Britain: The Harrowing of Hell (1st and 8th July)
- Experience a Medieval and Renaissance Spectacle on the Streets of Durham (1st to 12th July)
- Voli Me Tangere: Touch and Tenderness in the Lady Chatterley Novels
- Savage Arena: The Legacy of Joe Tasker (Talk and exhibition)
- Five Shades of Charlotte Brontë: How Charlotte Brontë Has Influenced Culture Today
- Briggflatts: 50
- New Issue of Postgraduate English (Number 32, 2016)
- Twenty-Five Years of Regeneration: A Pat Barker Symposium (CFP 31st July, Conference 15th October)
- New Podcast: Making music in the North-east: waits and minstrels around the region
- Bloomsday in Durham (16th June)
- Five North East Traditions You Would Like to See Revived
- Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1816 Poetry, and Video Games and Literature (Seminar, 16th June)
- Applying for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities (Workshop, 13th June)
- Frances ‘Fanny’ Burney and Popular Entertainments: the business of pleasure in Late-Georgian Britain (Conference, 4th – 6th July)
- New Podcast: A Funny Kind of Devotion? Laughter in the Biblical Drama of Late Medieval Towns and Cities
- Charlotte Brontë Revisited
- The Medieval World of Game of Thrones (Public talk, 12th June)
- Dead Women Poets Society (8th June)
- North East English Literature Events in June 2016
- Poetry, Performance and the Sea (Workshop, 9th June)
- Flora Annie Steel and the Indian “Mutiny” Novel (Seminar, 8th June)
- Haliwerfolc (Poetry reading, 1st June)
- New Podcast: Corpus Christi Plays in Durham
- The craft of cruelty: an anatomy of the satiric fiction of Evelyn Waugh (Seminar, 26th May)
- Call for Presenters: Late Summer Public Lectures 2016
- A Common Minstrel?
- Converging Worlds: Cultural Exchanges in Literature and the Written Word (Conference, 20th June)
- In between propaganda and escapism: William Faulkner as a Cold War Cultural Ambassador (Public lecture, 19th May)
- Catholic recusants in performance (Public talk, 19th May)
- New Podcast: Worms, Stags, and Other Folk Performances
- William Blake’s London and Eliot’s Waste Land (Seminar, 18th May)
- Predicting the Past: Using Machine Learning to Illuminate Three Centuries of Literary History (Seminar, 16th May)
- Activating Victorian Utopias for Future Use (Research paper presentation, 16th May)
- A Funny Kind of Devotion? Laughter in the Biblical Drama of Late Medieval Towns and Cities (Public talk, 12th May)
- Thinking Through Ghosts and Contaminations: The Cases of Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock (Public lecture, 10th May)
- North East English Literature Events in May 2016
- Corpus Christi in Durham (Public talk, 5th May)
- For Kicks (Poetry reading, 4th May)
- Embodied Shadows: sculpted memory, sensed presence, and the third party (Public lecture, 3rd May)
- Making music in the North-east: waits and minstrels around the region (Public talk, 28th April)
- Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation
- The Dance of Death
- Into the Mouth of Hell
- Slaying the Sockburn Worm
- Boys Will Be Bishops
- Worms, stags, and other folk performances (Public talk, 21st April)
- The Oldest Play From Britain?
- Dancing with Oxen
- Plays, Processions and Parchment: An Interview with Curator Diana Wyatt
- The Big Minstrel Gig
- The Rotten Ridiculous Robe
- Mother Naked
- The Man-Eating Dragon of Durham
- North East English Literature Events in April 2016
- The Tempest (Performance, 6th-7th April)
- New Podcast: Contaminations: On Literature and Climate Change
- Register Now for Medieval Theatre Colloquium (Durham, 7th – 12th July)
- Recruiting to the Writing Squad
- Knights of the Bath Behaving Badly
- Singing School: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (Seminar, 16th March)
- Strictly Come Renaissance Dancing (Free dance workshops, 17th-20th March)
- Ghostly Sightings: hauntology and spectrality in East Asian gothic cinema (Public Lecture, 15th March)
- Whose line is it anyway?: Textual Editing and the Inventions of the Text (Seminar, 9th March)
- Write to Read: Share Your Examples of Terrible Beauty
- Exclusive Extract from The Recovery of Beauty
- Celebrating the Brontes (Reading, 7th March)
- North East English Literature Events in March 2016
- Dramatic Dialects: Liz Berry and Katrina Porteous (Poetry reading, 4th March)
- Keats, Healthy Breathing, and Romantic Bowers (Seminar, 2nd March)
- Ghosts in the City: from Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel (Public Lecture, 1st March)
- The Recovery of Beauty
- The Early Historical Novel: Liberty and the Nation (Public Lecture, 25th February)
- Colpitt’s Poetry: Colette Bryce and Eleanor Rees (26th February)
- New Podcast: Ghosts and the Supernatural in Japanese Art
- Ghostly Readings, Reading Ghosts (22nd February)
- Afterlives of a Romantic Poet: Keats, Biography, and Biopic (Seminar, 18th February)
- Contaminations
- Wicked and Surreal: Matthew Caley and W.N. Herbert (12th February)
- The Afterlives of Eve (Conference 9th-11th September, CFP deadline 12th March)
- The Wild Hunt: ghosts, goddesses and witches in medieval Europe (Public Lecture, 16th February)
- Shakespeare and the Right to the City: Subjective Alienation in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and 2 Henry VI (Seminar, 10th February)
- Strictly Come Renaissance Dancing: Your Chance to Learn the Basics of Early Dance (Free workshops, 11th to 14th February)
- English Literature Events and Lectures in February 2016
- Postgraduate English Journal Call for Submissions (29th February 2016)
- Spring Poetry: Katherine Towers and Gareth Reeves (5th February)
- A. E. Housman and Giacomo Leopardi: A Chance Encounter? (Seminar, 4th February)
- Enter the Northern Writers’ Awards 2016
- We talked about Ghosts: John Keats’ Shadows (Public Lecture, 2nd February)
- History and Fiction: How novelists shape the past (Lecture, 26th January)
- Blurred Identities: The Threepenny Opera between Stage-Play, Musical and Film
- ‘Throbbing on taut ear-drum’: The Acoustics of David Jones’ In Parenthesis
- Exploring Northern Lights
- Wilhelminian Apparitions: ghosts and desire between science, religion and art in the German nineteenth-century novel from Raabe to Fritz (Public Lecture, 19th January)
- Jane Austen’s Gamers and Performers
- North East English Literature Events in January 2016
- 2015 in review
- Dolls to Slide in Grooves: Performances in Paradoxical Space in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith
- Representations of Hair in Mid-Victorian Arthurian Poetry
- New Podcast: (Re)searching Lafcadio Hearn
- CFP for Inventions of the Text: Literary Concepts, Theories and Genres (CFP deadline 20th January)
- New Podcast: Ghosts and Dickens
- True Norse
- Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come
- Collier: Sinéad Morrissey’s Durham Book Festival Poem
- “Wortmaschine:” Electronic Music in Contemporary German Literature
- From the Lighthouse Issue One
- Harpsichords in Hull
- The Norse God Loki: Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in Conversation
- New Issue of Postgraduate English (Number 31, 2015)
- New Podcast: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
- Become a Reviewer in Residence at Inpress Books (Opportunity for young writers, deadline 18th January)
- ‘Last Night’: Colson Whitehead’s Present (Seminar, 16th December)
- The Poems of Climate Change
- Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature (Conference, 26th-27th February 2016)
- Scottish Masters: Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie (Poetry reading, 11th December)
- Ted Hughes and the Medieval Politics of Metre (Seminar, 10th December)
- Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
- James Bond and the Cold War (Lecture, 10th December)
- Norse in the North (CFP 4th March; Conference 4th June)
- English Literature Events in December 2015
- Ghosts and Dickens (Public Lecture, 8th December)
- Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914
- Poetic Voice and Commodity Culture in Letitia Landon’s ‘Medallion Wafers and “I mend a break in time:” H.D.’s Healing Prophecy in What Do I Love? (Seminar, 2nd December)
- Re-Sounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge (CFP 15th January, Conference 8th March)
- Maverick Mayhem: Miriam Gamble and Peter Mackay (Poetry reading, 4th December)
- Toadying to the Elite: Review of Will and Tom, by Matthew Plampin
- Who Are the Best Presidents in Fiction?
- When the Streetlights Go Dark: A Literary View of Lumière
- All the Presidents Fiction
- Elysian Poetry: A Short History of Immortality, Homer to Heaney (Seminar, 26th November)
- A Quick-Witted Poetry Reading: Luke Kennard and Tony Williams (20th November)
- The Open Door: Towards an Ethics of the Literary Ghost (Public Lecture, 24th November)
- The Top Five Lights in Literature
- Could you be Bishop of Durham for the Day?
- Bringing the Durham Dragon to Life
- Lights in Literature: Share Your Suggestions
- Durham Needs You! Help to Celebrate Our City’s Dramatic Traditions
- Visiting Poets from Durham’s Twin City of Tuebingen (Reading, 13th November)
- Polar Peter: J. M Barrie and the influence of Children’s Literature on Robert Scott’s Antarctic Adventures (Public talk, 18th November)
- Three Generations of Pioneering Women Poets: Tara Bergin, Vona Groarke, Anne Stevenson (Reading, 6th November)
- Ghosts and Goblins in Early Modern Japan (Public Lecture, 10th November)
- English Literature Events in November 2015
- Words and Music (Performances 6th-8th November
- Treat Your Eyes and Ears This Halloween
- New Podcast: ‘Your New Hospital for the Intellectuals’: The Literary Salon as an Alternative Space for War
- CFP for The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Conference (Abstracts 31 January 2016, Conference 18 June 2016)
- Submissions Open for From the Lighthouse Literary Magazine
- The Ghostly Vicar
- ‘Stories Somehow Lengthen’: Narrative and Play in Beppo and The Witch of Atlas (Seminar, 4th November)
- The Lusty Dancing Priest of Rufforth
- New Podcast: ‘Ghostly Language’: Wordsworth’s Ghosts and Spectral Subjectivity
- Poetry Aloud: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats (Reading, 29th October)
- CFP for Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives: Special Issue of Women’s Writing (Abstracts by 31 January 2016)
- Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (Funding Opportunity)
- Secret Science (Talk, 30th October)
- Evidence! Evidence! From the Supernatural to the Fantastic in M.R. James and Others (Public Lecture, 27th October)
- Language in its Given State: Review of Sinéad Morrissey at Durham Book Festival
- Citations of the Fantastic: Exploring Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights at Durham Book Festival
- New Podcast: A Literary History of Chocolate
- Putting Words in My Mouth: Review of The Cultural Legacy of the King James Bible at Durham Book Festival
- Disinformation: Review of Frances Leviston at Durham Book Festival
- Ovid’s Heroines: Review of Clare Pollard at Durham Book Festival
- The Rise and Fall of the Working Class: Review of Selina Todd at Durham Book Festival
- Do it Like a Woman: Review of Caroline Criado-Perez at Durham Book Festival
- A Poem as a Friend: Review of The Poetry Exchange at Durham Book Festival
- This is the End of Something: Review of Stevie Ronnie’s Arctica at Durham Book Festival
- An Imaginary Circus (Free show, 15th October)
- From Haute Couture to Fast Fashion: Review of Lauren Laverne and Laura Craik Discussing Yves Saint Laurent at Durham Book Festival
- Learning on the Job: Review of Peter Straughan at Durham Book Festival
- ‘Ghostly Language’: Wordsworth’s Ghosts and Spectral Subjectivity (Public Lecture, 13th October)
- Happy National Poetry Day 2015
- Troublesome Children in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
- The Poems That Made Me: A Reading With Durham Book Festival Laureate Sinéad Morrissey (16th October)
- Meet the Dead Women Poets Society
- New Podcast: Old English Riddles and the Dream of the Rood
- Knights at the Movies: Reformulating Fellowship in Film Adaptations of Chivalric Communities (Public lecture, 7th October)
- Continue the Story Competition: A Nest of German Spies at the Grand Hotel, Khartoum, April 1914
- English Literature Events in October 2015
- The Servant Who Was Frightened to Death
- Paper People – How Writers (and Readers) Create Characters
- Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory
- Medical Humanities: Postgraduate/ ECR Networking Event (26th October)
- Dead [Women] Poets Society (Readings and Reflections, 10th October)
- ‘Your New Hospital for the Intellectuals’: The Literary Salon as an Alternative Space for War (Public lecture, 30th September)
- A Literary History of Chocolate (Public lecture, 23rd September)
- A Ghost in the Water Closet?
- New Podcast: Victorian Vikings and the World of Saga Tourism
- CFP for Inventions of the Text Seminar Series (Proposals by 15th October)
- Durham Book Festival 2015
- Northern Modernism Seminar (25th September)
- Old English Riddles and The Dream of the Rood (Public lecture, 16th September)
- A Century of Supernatural Stories
- Rudyard Kipling’s Kim: Attitudes Towards Empire
- Fire Culture of the North
- Heroes Conference: Registration now open (3rd to 4th October)
- Lafcadio Hearn Exhibition and Symposium (19th – 26th September, and 25th September)
- T.S. Eliot and the Anthropology of the Primitive (Public lecture, 9th September)
- English Literature Events in September 2015
- New Podcast: Narrating Everyday British Life by Authors of Muslim Heritage, Then and Now
- Imagining Vikings Revisited
- Victorian Vikings and the Alluring World of Saga Tourism (Public lecture, 2nd September)
- Music, Narrative, and Identity in Literature
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. proves spy spoofs are back in business
- Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature (Conference 26th-27th February 2016; CFP 15th October)
- Narrating Everyday British Life by Authors of Muslim Heritage, Then and Now (Public lecture, 26th August)
- Imagining the 21st-Century Viking
- Top Ten Victorian Books About Vikings
- Narrating human experience: An interdisciplinary approach to sound (Public lecture, 19th August)
- China in Eighteenth-Century English and Irish Literature: Representations and Tensions
- (Re)imagining the Vikings
- Memory in Performance
- The Thing-Cultures of Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy and William Morris’s News from Nowhere
- Beyond the Blasts of Time: Recusant Catholic Poets in Ushaw College Library
- English Events in August 2015
- Fellowship from Sir Gawain to Malory and the Rise of ‘Civic’ Culture
- Late Summer Lectures 2015 (Public Lecture Series, 19th August to 7th October)
- Ghosts on the Water: Marina Carr’s reception of the Classical Underworld in her Midland Trilogy
- It’s Just a Trick of the Light: Mark Burgess of The Chameleons on Literature and Music
- ‘They kept the noiseless tenor of their way’: Female Characterisation in the Literature and Film of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd
- Chivalric Identity in Medieval Romance: Colour and Clothing in Perceval
- The Paradox of the Memoir in Will Self’s Walking to Hollywood and W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn
- And All that Jazz: Popular Music as Narrative in The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night
- Werewolf Week Revisited
- The Secrets of Bay XX
- Revealing Riddles
- The Werewolf’s Rational Soul in the Medieval Romance
- Top Ten Werewolf Books of All Time
- Announcing the UK launch of ‘In the Real’ (14 July, 5-8pm,Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Animal and Natural Worlds, c.500 to 1750 (Conference, 3rd July)
- Jordskott: Nordic Noir Returns to its Roots
- English Events in July 2015
- Join our new Creative Writing MA
- The Werewolf Among Us
- Job Opportunity: Research Assistant (The Hero Project, AHRC)
- Writers on Writing: Susan Sontag
- Journey to the Red Planet
- Heroes (CFP 20th July; conference, 3rd-4th October)
- Hour of the Wolf: A Werewolf Symposium (2 July)
- New Perspectives on the First World War and its Legacies (18th June)
- The prior’s monkey
- English Events in June 2015
- Take part in a Renaissance spectacle in the heart of Durham
- Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century: Conference
- Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies (Conference, 2nd July)
- New Post: Coleridge and Godwin: A Literary Friendship
- ‘Harder if possible than the Emperor’s heart’: Narrating the Amherst Embassy (1816) (Seminar, 27th May)
- What does your inner voice sound like?
- Monday 22nd June 2015 Centre for Humanities Innovation Durham workshop: The Emerging Humanities: Strategies for the Future
- English Events in May 2015
- A Decadent Conversation
- Call for Proposals: Late Summer Lectures 2015 (CFP deadline 18th May)
- Voices Becoming Characters: Insights from the Experimental Novel (Seminar, 7th May)
- Announcement: The Idler Godwin Project: On Conversation
- ‘Perfectly phrased and quite as true’: Aphoristic Modernity, 1890–1950 (Conference, University of York, 4th July; CFP 1st May)
- Announcement: The Idler Review of The Letters of William Godwin
- English Events in April 2015
- Announcement: The Letters of William Godwin and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns
- “The Charm of the Unfamiliar”: Myth and Alterity in Early Modern Literature (Conference, 19th June; CFP deadline 1st May)
- Power and Politics: Fourth Annual Norse in the North Conference (13th June)
- Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies (Conference, 2nd July; CFP deadline 6th May)
- Shooting and Shouting at the Flower of the Well
- A birthday tribute: William Godwin and the “leisure of a cultivated understanding”
- Wedlock: The disastrous marriage and triumphant divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore (Public lecture, 15th April)
- English Events in March 2015
- Basil Bunting and Northern Poetry: A Celebration (Reading, 2nd March)
- The Compensations of Illiteracy: Orality and Religion in British Writing About Russia (Seminar, 25th February)
- Postgraduate English Journal Call for Submissions (28th February)
- Paradigms Lost: Emergence and the Brave New World of Interdisciplinary Consilience (lecture, 16th February)
- New Podcast: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Inside the Literary Kitchen
- Ambiguous Sexualities on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
- The Condition of England, Again: Social Criticism in Contemporary Britain (Seminar, 4th February)
- Registration and Programme for 50 Years of Sexism: What Next? (7th to 8th March)
- English Events in February 2015
- Interview with Jamie Beckett
- Featured Publication: Nineteenth-Century Prose Special Issue on William Godwin
- Just Who’s Playing The Dumb Knight?
- Featured event: Panel on William Godwin’s Middle Years at BSECS 2015
- Freetown-on-Avon: David Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 (Public Lecture, 19th February)
- Podcast: Launch of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805
- Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
- English Events in January 2015
- New Publication: The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805
- The Supernatural North
- CFP for John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet, 1815-1821 (Abstracts by 15th January; conference runs 1st to 3rd May at Guy’s Hospital London)
- CFP for Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century (Abstracts by 16th January 2015; conference 7th May 2015)
- The Prunes of Islington
- The Wind in the Willows: Durham Big Read 2014
- English Events in December 2014
- Dickens’s Nightwalking (19th November)
- Books for Boys Study Day
- English Events in November 2014
- A Tale of Two Professors, or the Unexpected John Carey
- Metamorphic Emergence: Narrative Modelling of Species Transformations
- Listen Out This Halloween
- Call for Papers for Special Issue of postmedieval on Medievalism and the Medical Humanities
- MA Research Seminar Series
- Finding Gloucester’s Eyeballs: Keats’s Letters and their Poetry
- Can Literature Still Be Dangerous in the Western World?
- Review of Kate Tempest: Hold Your Own
- Review of William Atkins and Benjamin Myers: Lives, Landscape, Literature
- Review of Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Motherhood Writing through the Woman’s Experience
- Poetry at Durham Book Festival
- Review of Terry Eagleton: Was Jesus a Revolutionary?
- Call for Papers for Fifty Years of Sexism: What Next?
- English Events in October 2014
- Public Lecture: ‘Getting Under Their Skins: History, Fiction and Art’
- Books for Boys: Heroism, Adventure & Empire at the Dawn of the First World War
- Walking the Tightrope Across Durham Cathedral
- Icelandic Literature, Past and Present
- Poetry Reading @ St Johns
- Hearing the Voice in the Guardian
- English Events in September 2014
- New Podcast: Authorship and Hysterical Woman in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
- Registration and Programme for Is a Novel Just a Novel
- New Podcast: Boy with Apple: The “Comfortable Uncanny” in the Films of Wes Anderson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- King Con is Coming to Durham
- Registration Now Open for The North in the Long-Eighteenth Century (Lit and Phil, 19th September)
- Participate: Readers’ Inner Voices
- Register Now for “When the Lamps When Out: H.G. Wells and His World on the Eve of the War”
- Durham Book Festival 2014
- Eco-tipping points and the power of narrative in literature
- The Inner Voices of Writers and Readers
- Late Summer Lectures 2014
- Ghost MacIndoe
- When Durham Welcomed James I … (and Courted Controversy)
- New Podcast: Michael O’Neill Reads from Gangs of Shadow
- CFP for Postgraduate English (15th September, 2014)
- Sickness and Selves: Seventeenth-Century Life-Writing and the Modern Illness Memoir
- More Than a Dogmatic Toby Jug? The Importance of G.K. Chesterton
- New Podcasts: Easter Lectures 2014
- English Events in July 2014
- William Godwin’s Wet-Transfer Copies and James Watt’s Copying Machine
- Modern Fiction V Modern Atheism
- New Podcasts: Literary Criticism and the Fantastic
- A wagon, a Worme and two wings
- Featured edition: Letters of William Godwin – Pamela Clemit – OUP
- CFP for Is a Novel JUST a Novel? (4th September)
- Book Launch for Gangs of Shadow, by Michael O’Neill
- Launch of the Love Darg
- English Events in June 2014
- Imagining Surveillance in Literature and Film: 1516-2013
- CFP for New Waves & Different Lights: Approaches to Derek Mahon (18th to 19th September)
- CFP for When the Lamps Went Out: H. G. Wells and his World on the Eve of the War (27th September 2014)
- When Durham Welcomed King James I
- AHRC-funded PhD studentship on Records of Early English Drama North-East
- Fiction as Therapy: Towards a Neo-Phenomenological Theory of the Novel
- CFP for Late Summer Lectures 2014
- Frances Burney at the Seaside
- CFP for Postgraduate English (1st August, 2014)
- New Podcast: How Literature Challenges Our Infatuation with Numbers
- Rethinking the Vikings
- English Events in May 2014
- Plotting the Crisis: Ecologies, Commodities, and the Arts (24th May)
- Objects of Value: The Afterlives of Letters
- Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers
- John Keats and His Circle: The First Keats Foundation Conference (London, 2nd to 4th May)
- Programme for Cognitive Futures in the Humanities (24th to 26th April)
- Morality Plays, Mummings, and More: Tracing the Roots of Early English Drama
- Vampires: A Horrid History
- New Podcast: A Conversation with Jane Smiley
- Review of Noah’s Ark, a Medieval Mystery Play
- English Events in April 2014
- Reflections on Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now
- CFP for On the Fringes: Outsiders and Otherness in the Medieval and Early Modern World
- Baths of Bliss in the Middle Ages: Fact or Fiction
- Jim Crace, Being Dead, and the Yale Windham Campbell Lifetime Literary Award
- New Podcast: Tom Pickard Reads from his Poetry
- A Word or Two About Evelyn Waugh (Public Lecture, 19th March)
- ‘Modyr Nakett’ (Mother Naked)
- Vikings at the British Museum
- Affinities: On the Poetry of Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop
- Literary Criticism and the Fantastic
- Modern Literature, Culture, and the Archives of the Secret State
- An Introduction to Durham in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- English Events in March 2014
- Tom Pickard: The Annual Basil Bunting Memorial Reading
- Baths of Bliss in the Middle Ages: Fact and Fiction
- Report on Teaching African American Literature and Culture
- Interview with next speaker, Koren Kuntz
- English Events in February 2014
- Digital Humanities Round Table
- Postgraduate English Call for Papers (Deadline Feb. 28th)
- The Crooked Maid, Book Launch
- New Podcast: Howling From the City Walls: Poetry and Counter-Culture in 1960s Newcastle
- Programme for Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now
- Desert Island
- Marco Bernini on “‘Listen to the Light’: Voices, Memory and Cognitive Synesthesia in Beckett’s Narrative”, Hearing the Voice Research Seminar Series, (Durham University, 23 January 2014)
- English Events in January 2014
- Teaching African American Literature and Culture
- Tragic Coleridge
- The Dragon of the North
- Too Fragile: Understanding Digital Texts
- New Podcast: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
- Female Voice/s in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Transspecies Entanglements: Animal Assistants in Narratives about the Intellectually Disabled – David Herman (Seminar, Durham, 10th December 2013)
- English Events in December 2013
- First Call for Contributions: Special Issue of postmedieval on Medievalism and the Medical Humanities
- Robots Are Coming!
- Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning
- Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?
- Beyond the Two Cultures: Review of “Is Great Science Great Science Fiction?” at Durham Book Festival
- Cuthbert and the Otters: Review of Paul Muldoon at Durham Book Festival
- Roundtable on Translation and Reading with Jacek Dehnel and Michael O’Neill
- What Twins Can Teach Us
- Sport in Society: Review of Benjamin Markovits, Ashes Writer in Residence at Durham Book Festival
- English Events in November 2013
- How the vampire got his teeth
- Communities of Color: Review of Sandi Russell at Durham Book Festival
- WORD OF MOUTH
- The Man from N.U.N.C.L.E.
- “The Idea of a Planned World”: H.G. Wells’s “The First Men in the Moon”
- The Week in Poetry
- Pot-Boiling Wonkery? Review of Andrew Adonis, Chris Mullin, and Alan Johnson at Durham Book Festival
- Illuminating York’s Viking Past
- Review of Voicewalks at Durham Book Festival
- Registration Now Open for Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now
- Light and the Poetics of Ambivalence (Symposium, 23 November, Durham University)
- Iain Sinclair leads launch of Voicewalks, Saturday 12 October 2013, St Chad’s College Chapel, 7 pm.
- Thoughts on Nuncle Music
- Review of Simon Armitage at Durham Book Festival
- New Podcast: Monkey Besynesse: Patronage and Print, or the Ape and the Book
- English Events in October 2013
- Hearing the Voice at Durham Book Festival, October 2013
- Readings and Events at the Centre for Poetry and Poetics
- New Podcast: ‘Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: Lunatic Landscapes in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
- Biographical Beginnings: The Anatomy of the Woman’s Bag
- “Shuttles in the Rocking Loom”: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction
- A New Bun in the Oven: Olive Moore’s Spleen
- New Podcast: Airmen, Aeroplanes and Aesthetics: Pilots in Irish War Poetry
- “A Vehicle of Private Malice”: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and The Sydney Herald, by Professor Duncan Wu
- New Podcast: Hideous Repasts: From Varney the Vampyre to Hannibal the Cannibal
- Cognitive Futures in the Humanities (CfP, 2nd International Conference, Durham, 24-26 April 2014)
- Book Launch of Two Previously Unpublished R.L. Stevenson Juvenilia
- New Podcast: Ghosting, Place, and Wuthering Heights
- New Podcast: Jane Eyre and Masculinity
- English Events in September 2013
- Publication of Nuncle Music, by Gareth Reeves
- New Podcast: When is Modernism?
- Twentieth Century and Contemporary Scholars: Invitation to Join the Editorial Board of Postgraduate English
- Programme for “That Exquisite Echo”: Rhyme in English Poetry from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
- New Podcast: Dickensian Steampunk: Charles Dickens and His Overlooked Mudfog Papers
- Tipping Points Workshop: Critical Transitions
- N8 Heritage North Workshop Report
- Launch of “Frissure”: a collaboration between Kathleen Jamie, Brigid Collins and CMH
- On International Pynchon Week 2013
- A Clockwork Twist: Charles Dickens’s The Mudfog Papers
- Durham Book Festival 2013
- “That Exquisite Echo”: Rhyme in English Poetry from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
- English Events in August 2013
- Modernist Poetry: A Report on Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890 – 1939
- Modernism Outside the Mainstream: A Report on Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890 – 1939
- Records of Early English Drama North-East
- The Lonely Voices of Modernism: A Report on Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890 – 1939
- Late Summer Lectures 2013 Programme
- The Importance of Being Interesting
- The “Diverse” Booker Longlist
- From Literary Dolls to Sexual Reality
- N8 Heritage North Live-Tweets
- Publicise Your English Event in the North-East
- Fully-Funded Studentship in Records of Early English Drama North-East Project
- N8 AHRC workshop: Heritage North
- Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind: Toward a Transdisciplinary Approach
- English Events in July 2013
- Late Summer Lecture Series Returns to Durham and Newcastle
- John Clegg Wins the Eric Gregory Award
- Where is British Poetry Today?
- T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Annual Reading, with Sean Borodale and Jacob Polley
- “Unravelling Shakespeare’s Life,” a Lecture by James Shapiro
- Why John Berryman’s Poetry Matters Today
- The Future of British Fiction
- English Events in June 2013
- New Podcast: The Decline of British Fiction
- New Issue of Postgraduate English
- Re-Visioning The Ethics of Care
- Employment: Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Durham University
- English Events in May 2013
- Conference Report on Efface the Traces! – Modernism and Influence
- ‘Understanding Human Flourishing’, Postgraduate Conference in Medical Humanities, Durham University, 16-17 May 2013
- Literary and Popular Styles in Romantic and Victorian Labouring-class Poetry
- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: VOICEWALKS
- Romantic Victorians
- Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now
- British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960
- English Events in April 2013
- Simon James discusses “Time” at the Institute of Advanced Study
- Fully Funded Three-year PhD Studentship in English Studies in conjunction with Hearing the Voice
- Modernism and Non-Translation
- Special Issue of The English Academy Review: FRAGILE FUTURES – Call for Submissions
- Forms of Innovation: Humanities, Copyright, and New Technologies
- 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award for The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939
- English Events in March 2013
- Modernist Literary Luggage
- An Interview with David Bintley, CBE
- Registration Open for “Efface the Traces! Modernism and Influence”
- Spaces of Memory in Medieval English Romance
- English Events in February 2013
- The 1820s: An Improvisational and Speculative Moment
- Life-writing at the limits: dementia in contemporary autobiographies and life-writing projects – Rebecca Bitenc (Seminar, Durham, 13 February 2013)
- Beyond the Garden Party: Re-thinking Edwardian Culture
- New Podcasts: The Persistence of Beauty: Tennyson to MacNeice
- An Interview with David Bintley, CBE – Durham University, Wednesday 13th March, 6.15pm
- Poetic Form: An Introduction
- Hilary Powell and Corinne Saunders on Voice-Hearing in the Middle Ages: Joint Special Interest Group for Psychosis (Durham University, 30 January 2013)
- Professor Richard Cronin Lectures in British Academy Series, “Making A Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment 1820-40”
- Job vacancy: 3-month postdoc position
- English Events in January 2013
- Understanding Human Flourishing: A Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference (CfP, Conference, Durham University, 16-17 May 2013)
- New Podcasts: The Recovery of Beauty
- Postgraduate English: Basil Bunting in Japan, Music in Four Quartets, and Trauma in Heart of Darkness and House of Leaves
- When Tea Drinkers Were Viewed as Irresponsible as Whisky Drinkers
- English Events in December 2012
- Late Summer Lecture Podcast: The Changing Face of Collection in Folk Music
- The Wartime Rise of the Rise of the Novel
- Poetry Aloud Podcast: An Evening with T.S. Eliot
- Reminder: Two Calls for Papers on Modernism
- Michael Symmons Roberts: A Reading and Interview – Durham University, Wednesday 28th November 2012
- Welcoming Dr Hilary Powell to the Centre for Medical Humanities
- English Events in November 2012
- Outrageously Modern! Podcast: The White Review: A Journal for Our Times
- Memory and Time Symposium and Postgraduate Workshop
- Readings By Durham Book Festival’s Poet Laureate, Lorna Goodison
- An Evening with T.S. Eliot
- “We Speak a Different Tongue”: Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939
- Durham Book Festival 2012
- Outrageously Modern! Podcast: The Great War in the Magazines
- English Events in October 2012
- Late Summer Lecture Podcasts: Paranoia in Nabokov’s Fiction, and The Morality of Beauty
- Editing Now: Early Modern Performance and Modern Textual Scholarship
- Poetry Aloud Podcasts: Gareth Reeves and John Clegg Read From Their Poetry
- English Events in September 2012
- “Efface the Traces!” Modernism and Influence
- The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Pen and Scalpel: Literature and the Medical Humanities
- Late Summer Lectures 2012
- English Events in August 2012
- New and Selected Poetry by Gareth Reeves
- Why We Should Drink to John Clare
- Reading Between the Lines: Letters and Literature
- English Events in July 2012
- Reading Between the Lines: Correspondences
- International Pynchon Week 2013
- Venice and the Cultural Imagination
- Forms of Innovation: A One-Day Symposium on Literature and Technology
- Thomas Pynchon Goes Digital
- Ipad App Brings the Shelley Circle to Life
- English Events in June 2012
- Belfast’s Titanic Museum: Dark Tourism and Northern Irish Elegy
- Work on Spinoza a Hit Online
- What would G.K. Chesterton have made of the Leveson enquiry?
- Toni Morrison’s war at home
- What is the value of science fiction?
- Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Journals and Romantic Letters
- An Interview with Iain Banks
- Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century
- Adapting Nineteen Eighty-Four for Our Times
- Can Literature Change the Way We Think?
- Letters of William Godwin Cast Light on the Eighteenth Century
- Bright Star: The Latest Visualisation of Keats
- Welcome
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