Wednesday, 27 May 2015

New Research in the Department of English

14:00-17:30 (GM107) with coffee break and refreshments.

Xavier Aldana Reyes (MMU), ‘Spain’s Radical Readers? The Rise and Value of Anti-Clerical Gothic Translations during the Liberal Triennium’

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU), ‘“You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe?” Cultural spin, puzzle films and mind games in the cinema of Christopher Nolan’. Chaired and Introduced by Linnie Blake

Marius Hentea (MMU), ‘Bureaucratic Forms: State Centralisation and the British Modernist Novel’

Sonya Lawrenson (MMU), ‘Wollstonecraft’s conservative legacy: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800)’. Chaired and introduced by Jess Edwards.

We would like to invite you to come along to our summer research seminar series.

Taking place on Wednesday afternoons between May and June, this is an opportunity to attend a range of events involving internal and external speakers, postgraduates and academics in the fields of English Studies, Film Studies, Modern Languages and Linguistics and Creative Writing. Everyone is welcome.

For further information please contact Lucy Burke, l.burke@mmu.ac.uk (0161) 247 1765 or Paul Wake, p.wake@mmu.ac.uk (0161) 247 4667.

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