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, 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.

Programme

Wednesday May 6th 16:30-18:00 (GM104)
Gregory Woods (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Homintern: Homosexual Internationalism and Modern Culture’. Chaired and introduced by Andrew Moor (MMU)

Wednesday May 13th: Department of English, MA Day 2pm – 6pm in GM201b and 201c
This event is an opportunity to listen to our Masters’ students present and discuss their current research. The MA day features work by students on MA English Studies, MA Contemporary Literature and Film, and MA Gothic. Please contact Dr Huw Jones for further information: h.r.jones@mmu.ac.uk

Wednesday May 20th 16:30-18:00 (GM104)
‘In Conversation with Jeff Wainwright’ Join Antony Rowland (MMU) in discussion with poet, critic and translator, Jeffrey Wainwright.

Wednesday May 27th: 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.

Wednesday June 3rd 16:30-18:00 (GM104)
Francisca Sanchez Ortiz (MMU), ‘Adaptation and the problems of representation: Dead female bodies and human waste in The Bridge’
Matthew Carter (MMU), ‘“Crossing the Beast”: Cultural Identity, Transnational Migration and Frontier Mythology in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre’. Chaired and Introduced by Ed Smyth

Wednesday June 10th 16:30-18:00 (GM104)
Rob Drummond (MMU), ‘Linguistic research in a challenging environment: youth language and identity in urban Britain’.
Erin Carrie (MMU), ‘Re-evaluating Language Attitudes towards Models of English Pronunciation’. Chaired and introduced by Derek Bousfield

Wednesday June 17th 16:30-18:00 (GM104)
David Alderson (University of Manchester) ‘Queer Romances with Fascism: The Brotherhood and Children of the Sun’. Chaired and introduced by Lucy Burke