Tomorrow, the School of the Arts Research Seminar Programme for the Autumn term will start with a lecture by University of Buckingham Dickens scholar, Professor John Drew. We have a great line-up this term with established SOTA researchers, visiting scholars, and new members of staff to SOTA.  All Seminars will be held in Room MY120 at 2.15pm unless otherwise stated.  There will be free tea, coffee and biscuits.  All staff and postgraduate students are welcome to attend.

For the full programme, please read below…

TOMORROW: Wednesday 8^th October – Professor John Drew (The University of Buckingham), ‘Viewing the Voiceless Ghosts: Authorship and Anonymity in the Late Victorian Press.’

Wednesday 15^th October – Emmanouel Aretoulakis (The University of Athens, Greece), ‘Posthumanist Ecology in English Romantic Poetry.’  Note: Room MR10.

Tuesday 21^st October – Special Lecture: Tabish Khair (The University of Aarhus, Denmark), ‘The Significance of the Scream: Otherness in Postcolonial and Gothic Fiction.’  Note: 1pm, Room MY35 (changed from previously advertised).

Wednesday 5^th November – Dr James McLaughlin (The University of Northampton), ‘The Phenomenology of the Meisner Technique.’  Note: 3.15-5pm in MY120.

Wednesday 12^th November – Peter Parker, ‘The Re-Examined Life: Researching the Modern Lives of Christopher Isherwood and J.R. Ackerley.’

Wednesday 26^th November – Roy Wallace (The University of Northampton), ‘“Shooting in the Dark” – DIY documentary videomaking and the politics of process.’

Wednesday 3^rd December – Dr Hayley Linthwaite (The University of Northampton), ‘Unmasking Workshop Ecology in Applied Performance.’  Note: 3.15-5pm

Friday 12^th December – Special Lecture: Professor Nick Groom (The University of Exeter), ‘John Clare at Christmas, the Seasons and the English Calendar.’  Note: 5pm drinks, followed by lecture at 6pm in MR5.

Wednesday 17^th December – Dr David Simmons, Dr Sonya Andermahr, Dr Claire Allen, ‘Rethinking the Twentieth Century Canon.’  With special guests Professor Gina Wisker (The University of Brighton) and Dr Martyn Colebrook (The University of Hull). Note: This event will take place in The Boardroom.

For abstracts and biographies for all talks,

please see SOTA Research Seminars Autumn 2014