Katy Shaw, our Professor of Contemporary Writings, has written an article for the UK English Media Centre about the many reasons why an English Literature degree is a great choice for for graduates of the future. Read it here:
Hauntology
There are many excited readers this week as they have been receiving their pre-order copies of Hauntology, the new book by our colleague Professor Katy Shaw
Katy is Professor of English Literature at Northumbria and a leading figure in work on 21st century writing, working class literature, representations of post-industrial regeneration, and the languages of comedy.
As its subtitle says, this book explores ‘the presence of the past in contemporary literature’. We can’t wait to see what it says about the work of Simon Armitage, Jez Butterworth, Zadie Smith, David Peace and others.
The book is dedicated to Mark Fisher, a key name in work on hauntology and other areas of criticism.
Bodyworks: a conference on corporeal representation
Here is information on a fascinating conference taking place at Northumbria today.
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- BodyWorks: A Conference on Corporeal Representation at the University of Northumbria
- Date of Event
- 3rd May 2018
- Last Booking Date for this Event
- 3rd May 2018
- Description
- A one day conference with a keynote lecture by Professor Lisa Blackman. Aimed primarily at postgraduates (Masters, PhDs, early career Postdocs) but open to anyone who is interested in affect studies, feminist and queer theory, body studies and emotion studies.
Professor Lisa Blackman from Goldsmith’s University is one of the most prominent scholars in the fields of body studies, affect studies and post-humanism at the moment. Professor Blackman’s work intersects body studies with media and cultural theory. She has written extensively on subjectivity, affect, the body and embodiment, including her most recent monograph Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation (2012).
BodyWorks takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to representations of bodies, embodiment and sensory experience across literature and culture. In doing so, we welcome responses from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy, arts, history, education, media, social sciences and medical humanities. Through this breadth of intellectual inquiry, the event aims to draw together a range of approaches and methodologies for exploring various facets of the contemporary shift towards studies of the body and emotions in the humanities.
Date – 3rd May 2018
Times – 8.30am (registration) until 6.15pm. (There will also be the option of attending a conference dinner at 7pm, for which there will be an additional charge).
Location – Northumbria University, Ellison Building, Block E.
Email address for enquiries – bodyworks.nu@gmail.com
Cost – £10
For a campus map, please click here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/media/738539/citycampus_map.pdf
English Colleagues in The Conversation
We’ve had several pieces by colleagues in English in The Conversation over the years. Here are three recent examples.
Sarah Duffy’s piece on how our minds construct time appeared in January
Katy Shaw argued against Will Self’s views on the future of the novel in March
Most recently, Billy Clark, Sarah Duffy and Graham Hall wrote a piece on how to talk about politics with your family
Billy appeared on CJAD 800 in Montreal yesterday to talk about the ideas in the piece he wrote with Sarah and Graham.
All of these pieces relate to ideas we discuss in classroom work and in our own research.
We’d be happy to join in further conversations on these here or elsewhere!
Muriel Spark on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
This could be a good listen before tomorrow’s talk by Pat Waugh. It’s James Naughtie and a group of readers discussing The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Muriel Spark (recorded in 2004):
Northumbria Englishes 