Special Lectures

"Monstrous Martyrdoms: Reading fin-de-siècle Queer Literature in the Age of Presentism"

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"'Our Friend' Angela Davis, the Black Communist Star"

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"Laughing about Imperialism: Anti-Colonial Humor in the Works of Ghandi and George Orwell"

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"Romantic Nature in the Industrial Revolution"

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"Enjungled and engulfed! Dreaming metropolitan disaster through the malevolence of plants in Richard Jefferies' 'After London'"

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"'And I myself created Hanrahan': Dissensual Irishness in late Yeats"

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"Oscar Wilde, Crime Fiction and the Occult"

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"Airwave Populism: US Talk Radio and the Media Aesthetics of the Right"

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"Very Normal Insurrections: Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and the Judgement of Literary Authoritarianism"

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Charlotte Williams, “Sugar and Slate"

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“R.S. Thomas's Poetry"

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Raymond Williams, “Border Country"

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“Vernon Lee, Music, and Psychological Aesthetics"

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“Hedd Wyn's Poetry"

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“Kate Roberts's Short stories"

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Amy Dillwyn, "The Rebecca Rioter"

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“Culture Codes in Children's Literature: Voices from Scotland and Armenia"

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“Filming Back: Bollywood Imag(in)ings of Contemporary Britain and Colonial India"

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“Decolonising Publishing through Independent Black Publishers"

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“Connections, Attachments, Entanglements: Transgender Representation in Fanfiction and its Cultural Contexts"

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“An Introduction to Adaptation Studies - Towards a Book Proposal"

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“Giving (Up) Hope? George Orwell and Victor Serge"

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“Victorian Rent Cultures"

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“Religious Toleration and Imperialism during the Restoration: The Case of John Dryden"

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“Lucifer Liberty and Light: George Orwell and John Milton"

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“Poetry out of bounds. Pamphlet culture and poetry in the anarchy of the civil war public sphere"

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“Reading Jeanette Winterson and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”

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 "To the Lighthouse: The Mother in the Garden"

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"Wales: Its History and Identity"

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"June Whitfield and how British sitcom endorsed and undermined cultural norms of feminity and domesticity from the 1960s to the early 21st Century"

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"Storms and Teacups: Thomas Hardy's Quiet Catastrophes"

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“Metadrama and Metatheatre in Hamlet”

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“Getting Sucked into Books: A Literary History of Immersion”

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“Strange Meetings: Truces and Exchanges with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century”

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"Reading for Happiness"

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“Literary Atlas: exploring digital literary geographies”

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“Shakespearean Passages to and from India: Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013)”

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"Post-Industrial Melancholia: the Brexit vote in Wales" & "Imaging the Internal Colony – vision and narrative in Raymond Williams’s Border Country"

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„James Kelman: Working-Class Selves and Radical Narrative in The Busconductor Hines (1984)"

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„Reading the Early Modern Diary"

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„The Split Self in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey“

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„The Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones's Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)“

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„Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Writers and the Popular Press“

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(Br)exits and Entrances: Britishness and the Four Nations post-1945

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Angela Carter and Second Wave Feminism workshop

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Wales post-Brexit workshop

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Fears and Phobias in late 19th-Century Culture

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“Another great migration”: Travel, Emigration and Imperialism in George Eliot’s Late Works

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"Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cottingley Fairies: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Networks of Fiction, Science and Religion"

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"The whites have become black" - Responses to the English Riots of 2011, Critical Whiteness Studies and the Trouble with 'New Ethnicities'

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The Symbolic Impact of Women’s Representation on Citizen’s Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect through Survey Experiments

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Poetry Reading and Film Screening

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Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment: The Quality of Attention

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Comedy and Mass Media in Post-War Britain

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Office Work and Occupational Health: The Case of Postal and Telegraph Clerks in Victorian Britain

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Sticks, Skins, Beards and Bulbs: Artificial Mothers and the Matter of Fiction

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YA Literature: Jugendliteratur, Literaturvermittlung und transnationale Buchmärkte

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Culture in British Cultural Studies

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Spenser's Ireland, Ireland's Spenser: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Elizabethan Legacy

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Other Stories: Strangers and Intrusions in Ali Smith's Fiction

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Early Modern Literature and Political Thought: Shakespeare, Lipsius, Montaigne

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Anne Clifford's Great Books: A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place

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An Introduction to Sikhism and its Place in the UK today

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The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebrations

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Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialogue

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Renaissance Literary Careers

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Dylan Thomas as a WWII War Poet: Flowers, Bodies, Terrors

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Writing Conflict 1934-37

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The Lion Dies for the Lamb: Revisiting Edmund Spenser, C.S. Lewis, and Disney's Lion King

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Problems of Identity: Language, Race and Nationhood in the Literatures of Wales

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Motherland?: Gendered Constructions of Wales in art and poetry

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Early Modern 'Science Fiction' (Francis Godwin, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon)

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Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis'  and the Vicissitudes of Intertextuality

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Woolf's Signifying Dog and the Missing Lynx: Animalous Readings in Poe, Woolf, Lacan and Derrida

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Places of Meaning, Ways of Knowing: Sense-Making in the Sensation Novel

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Grandmothers' Dreams: Heredity and Replication in D. H. Lawrence and Henry James"

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Looking for 'Eve Smith': Female Responses to Political Economy, c. 1790 - 1840

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Diseases from the Belly to the Heart: Sex an Gender Matter!

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Ageing and Mortality in Dickens and Wilde

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Disastrous Birth-Nights: Childbed and Child-Birth in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Reflections on Gender and Medicalization

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The Dragon's Two Tongues: Literature and Language Politics in Contemporary Wales

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Fashionable Disease and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

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The Boys of St. Columb's

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A  Boethian Paradigm in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": Some formal and verbal evidence

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Was there a Victorian "Double Standard" of Ageing?

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The Unnatural Youth of the Old "New Woman

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Senile Sexuality

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The New Old Man and the Neutral Man-Woman: Gender and Ageing in Victorian Fiction

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The Invention of the "Ageing" Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: Late Style and German Critics

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The True Morality of Fiction: Ageing Truths in Some Writings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Worst Agers: Children as Old People in Victorian Fiction

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Freedom of Testation in Victorian England

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The fin-de-siècle's Literary and Scientific Discovery of Ageing

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Re-assessing the "Old" in the Lives and Afterlives of Arnold Bennett's 'The Old Wives' Tale'

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A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century's View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age

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The Political Uses of Forgetting: Nationalist Nostalgia on the Jacobean Stage

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Why has the New Woman never a word to say for herself on the stage? Feminism and the English Theatre in the 1890s

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: From Research to Novel, Play Script to Stage Performance

Förderung [mit Peter Waller]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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Sensational Strategies: Women's Authorship, Editorship and Performance in the Victorian Press;

Förderung [mit Katharina Boehm]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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'Double Colonization' and Female Authorship

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Gendered Authorship in the Henry James Circle

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Little Savages, Dwarfs and Bottled Babies: Childhood, Popular Science and Literature in the Victorian Period

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'An insane desire to see the author': Herman Melville, Henry James and the Gendered Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Authorship

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The Lake Poets: Romantic Subjectivities, Topography, and Authorship

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Dame Nature’s Imagination: Creation, Creativity and Gender in Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities

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Music and the Irish Literary Imagination

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'Amaz'd we read of Nature's early Throes': Gender and (the) Creation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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Enlightenment Struggles over Gender and Creation: The Debates on Spleen

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Gender, Creation and Authorship in the Late Middle Ages

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Philomela, Gender, and Poetic Myths of Origin

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And ye shall know the truth, Or, The Gospel according to Darwin

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Imitation of Similar Beings: Social Mimesis as an Argument in Evolutionary Theory around 1900

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Against Genres: Shakespeare's Mingled Drama

Förderung: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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Manufacturing Monsters: The Experiments of Professor Higgins and Dr. Moreau

Förderung [mit Rainer Emig]: Studieneinheit Gender Studies

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