The English Postgraduate Research Seminar is a series of research seminars run by PhD students in the Department of English, Queen Mary University London. The English PGRS welcomes speakers from a number of academic institutions, who come to discuss their current research-in-progress with staff and postgraduate students in the English Department. The papers are followed by a question and answer session, a drinks reception in the Lock-keeper’s Common Room, and dinner in a local restaurant.
Seminars typically take place on Thursdays at 5:15pm in the Lock-Keeper’s Cottage on Queen Mary’s Mile End campus.
The schedule for Semester 2 below is correct at time of publishing, but check the English PGRS website and their Twitter feed for updates.
- Week 1 – 15. January 2015: Alexandra da Costa (Cambridge), ‘Marketing Forbidden Books and Training Illicit Readers: Evangelical Printing in the 1530s’
- Week 2 – 22. January 2015: Bonnie Greer
- Week 3 – 29. January 2015: David Attwell (York)
- Week 4 – 05. February 2015: Chris Holmes (Ithaca College)
- Week 5 – 12. February 2015: Rosanna Cox (University of Kent)
- Week 6 – 19. February 2015: Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
- Week 7 – 26. February 2015: READING WEEK
- Week 8 – 05. March 2015: Mary Talbot
- Week 9 – 12. March 2015: David Herman (Durham), ‘Storytelling beyond the Human: Modelling Animal Experiences in Narrative Worlds’
- Week 10 – 19. March 2015: Susan Wolfson (Princeton)
- Special Event Week 11 – 25. March 2015: D.A. Miller (UC Berkeley), time & venue tbc
- Week 11 – 26. March 2015: Graduate Panel tbc
- Week 12 – 02. April 2015: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)