Research Seminars 2009-10
This year’s Research Seminars in the School of English will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays. They will run from 1.00-2.00pm, with a paper of about 40 minutes, then questions and discussion. Seminars will be held in room B603, on the 6th floor of Baker Building, City North Campus (Perry Barr).
Thursday 29 October: Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University
Style on the move: grammatical change over the last 100 years
Thursday 12 November: Professor David Denison, University of Manchester
Linguists can't always tell a noun from an adjective (and why that's good)
Thursday 19 November: Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, University of York
'English' Literature before the English Empire
Thursday 3 December: Professor Emeritus Peter Thomson, University of Exeter
Why did Edmund Kean choose Othello rather than Iago?
Wednesday 27 January: Dr Robert Lawson, Birmingham City University
A Violent Vernacular? Unpacking the Associations between Language and Violence in Glasgow
Wednesday 10 February: Dr Tony Howe, Birmingham City University
Shelley and Familiarity
Wednesday 3 March: Dr Vicky Angelaki, Birmingham City University
It's Not Fun Until Someone Walks Out: The New Era of British Theatre
Wednesday 10 March: Dr Peter Sjølyst-Jackson, Birmingham City University
Migration and Materiality: On the Modernism of 'Hunger'
For more details, contact Professor Antoinette Renouf, Research Seminar Convenor