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Dr Elena Giusti on the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:46:47 GMT

Dr Elena Giusti, Assistant Professor in Latin Literature and Language, discusses the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, won by Kamila Shamsie for her novel Home Fire, a reworking of Sophocles' Greek tragedy.

Arts funding imbalance: more must be done report finds

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:17:38 GMT

More must be done to the address the imbalance in arts funding between London and the rest of the country. That's the conclusion of a Culture, Media and Sport Committee report out today (15 December). Chris Bilton , Reader, School of Theatre Studies says the government has been urged to address this imbalance since the 1980s, with relatively little effect

Harper Lee - she only managed to write one novel in her long life, but one was enough

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:41:56 GMT

Mark Storey, Assistant Professor of American Literature, plays tribute to Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird who has died today aged 89

Contact and Connections

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:43:48 GMT

Dr Charlotte Mathieson summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:

"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...

Celebrating Dickens in 2012

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:41:33 GMT

A blog post on the Journal of Victorian Culture Online from Dr Charlotte Mathieson, Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study:

Throughout 2012, the University of Warwick joined many institutions and organisations around the world in marking the bicentenary of Charles Dickens. Celebrating Dickens brought together researchers and students from the University to celebrate Dickens’s life and times...

“Curiously brought together” or “travelling surely hither”? Journeying from Bleak House to Little Dorrit

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:27:28 GMT

A blog post from Dr Charlotte Mathieson, Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study:

I’m currently revising a chapter on European travel in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, and have been pondering for the last couple of days the way in which, as in Bleak House, Dickens’s narrator suggests to us something of a framework for reading the patterns of mobility and interconnections in the novel...

The Novelist-Academic-Poet on Campus

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:10:53 GMT

The latest blog entry from Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:

Universities are chock-full of novelists and poets. Indeed, the cultural life of nations would be mightily impoverished without their presence. There have of course been many studies of novelists and poets who are also academics. Perhaps it is just that I have not noticed the phenomenon before, but it does seem as though they are expanding in number now as never before.

The Books That Made Me - China Miéville

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:40:17 GMT

Guardian podcast with China Miéville, Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literary Studies