PhD Colloquium
PhD Colloquium Schedule
Date: 10 February 2010
Place: Arts 160
11:30-12:00 Justin Pfefferle, “Documenting War: George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and William Sansom’s The Blitz.”
12:00-12:30 Marc Ducusin, “Deviants, Doubles and Desperate Remedies: Hardy’s Queer Sensations and Late Victorian Sexology.”
12:30-1:00 Hilary Havens, “Cecilia and the Rise of the Novel”
1:00-1:30 Break
1:30-2:00 Amanda Clarke, “The Peasant and the Tramp: Staging Irishness at the Abbey.”
2:00-2:30 Joanne Holland, “The Assassination Plot of 1696: Literary Responses to a Failed Regicide Attempt.”
2:30-3:00 Paula Derdiger, “Make it Horizontal: Rebuilding Wartime Britain.”
3:00-3:30 Ben Barootes, “Blank Space in Nineteenth-Century Literary Annuals.”
3:30-4:00 Ian Whittington, “Radio Free Empire: George Orwell and E.M. Forster at the BBC.”
4:00-4:30 Jeff Weingarten, “‘You Cannot Escape From Me Today’: A Poetics of Historical Skepticism in Later Modernist Treatments of Louis Riel.”
4:30-5:00 Mingle