Sydney English Research Seminars
Semester One 2013
Join the staff and colleagues of the English Department for vibrant discussion on a variety of topics.
Wednesday 3pm - 4:30pm in the Rogers Room, N397 John Woolley Building.
13 March
John Frow (Sydney)
Character and Person: Hamlet
10 April
Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmith's, London) (with Lit & Transnationalism)
'"Skin Deep", a Self-Revealing Act: Monologue, Monodrama, and Mixedness'
17 April [Please note: this seminar to begin at 2pm]
Paul Eggert (ADFA)
'The Long 1890s, Lawson and Postwar English Studies'
24 April
Gillian Dooley (Flinders) (with Lit & Transnationalism)
'"A Dozy City": Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthews' End of the Night Girl'
8 May
Peter Rose (Australian Book Review)
On the ethics, aesthetics and efficacy of diary writing
22 May
Alex Jones
'Accentual Metre in Old and Middle English'
ALL WELCOME! Enquiries: william.christie@sydney.edu.au
Semester Two 2012
Join the staff and colleagues of the English Department for vibrant discussion on a variety of topics.
Wednesday 2pm - 3:30pm in the Rogers Room, N397 John Woolley Building.
1 August
Dr Aaron Nyerges (Sydney)
Cather's Hieroglyphs
15 August
Professor Will Christie (Sydney)
Res Theatralis Histrionica: Acting Coleridge in the Lecture Theatre
29 August
Dr Sigi Jottkandt (UNSW)
Nabokov's Cin-Aesthesia: 'A Guide to Berlin'
12 September
Professor Graham Huggan (Liverpool) [Title TBC]
3 October
A/Professor Lee Wallace (Sydney)
Queer Home Life
17 October
Dr Mark Byron (Sydney)
Sagacious Torrents in Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard
31 October
Dr Liz Pender (Sydney)
The Task of Reading: Counterformalist Tendencies in the Modernist Novel
14 November
Dr Nick Riemer (Sydney)
Language construction and the 'artefactualist' conception of grammar in the Renaissance
28 November
Dr Mridula Chakraborti (UWS)
Entering the World in Literature: the Case of the Lonely Wife in Tagore's Nastanirh
ALL WELCOME! Enquiries: kate.lilley@sydney.edu.au
Semester One 2012 Seminars
7 March Professor Paul Giles
Antipodean American Modernisms: Federation's 'Weird Country'
21 March Dr Matt Helmers
Homosexual Panic: Fact, Fiction and the Deadly Difference Between Them
4 April Professor Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple)
Reflections on the Long Poem: Autobiography of a Practice
18 April Dr Sascha Morrell
Gentleman-Making
2 May Dr Nicola Parsons
Jane Barker's Patchwork Poetics
16 May Professor Fred Hobson (UNC Chapel Hill)
The White (US) Southern Racial Conversion Narrative
30 May Dr Carrie Hyde
Citizenship in Heaven: The Politics of Post-Civic Expectation
Past Seminars: 2011
9 March Sarah Gleeson-White
The Publication Process: A Glimpse at Peer Review
23 March Fiona Morrison
‘Foxy Lady’: Radical Chic and Rhetorical Markets in Christina Stead’s Letty Fox
6 April John Frow, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Afterlife: Texts as Usage
20 April Georgiana Banita, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Petrofiction
4 May Peter Gibbard
‘Words that say more than they say’: Style and Politics in Elizabethan Drama
18 May Huw Griffiths
Prosthetic Sovereignty: Body Parts in Shakespeare’s History Plays
Past Seminars: 2010
Friday 3-5pm, Rogers Room (N397)
John Woolley Building, University of Sydney
March 12 Stephen Knight
Merlin and the Environment
March 26 Tony Voss
Refracted Modernisms: Roy Campbell (1901-1957), H. I. E. Dhlomo
(1903-1956) and N. P. van Wyk Louw (1906-1970)
April 9 AVCC Week - NO SEMINAR
April 16 Susan Lever
Australian Television Drama
April 30 Noel Polk
William Faulkner
May 14 Richard White
The Cooee’s Career in English Literature
May 28 Edel Lamb
‘Children read for their Pleasantness’: Schoolboys as Readers in Early
Modern England
July 2 Emeritus Professor Christie Davies
How and why joke cycles change as they move between countries, including Australia
Please note: the following seminar will be on a Tuesday
July 6 Professor Patricia Yaeger
Glamourous Debris: Women Trashing Infrastructure
30 July Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Insinuating Authors
13 August Judy Barbour
“Brightness fell from her hair”: Shirley Hazzard's Literary Subterfuges
27 August Kate Lilley
The Case of the German Princess: Mary Carleton’s Career in Print
10 September Melissa Hardie
The Night, The Prowler: A Queer Archive
24 September Paul Giles
Transpacific Republicanism: American Transcendentalism, John Dunmore Lang, and the Gold-Rush Circuit
8 October Brigid Rooney
Future Anteriors: Temporalities of Belonging in Australian Fiction
22 October Fiona Morrison
‘Foxy Lady’: Radical Chic and Rhetorical Markets in Christina Stead’s Letty Fox