English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Chantal Wright and IBBY UK Honour List celebration night
Dr. Chantal Wright, Associate Professor in translation studies, will be part of a festive evening celebrating the IBBY UK Honour List Books 2016 at the London Piccadilly branch of Waterstones on December 8th. The event begins at 6.30pm. It is free to attend, but to register please go to eventbrite.com/e/ibby-uk-honour-list-books-2016-tickets-28958633051.
Professor Dan Katz article in TLS
Please see the following link for Dan Katz article on Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry
Dr David Taylor talks about political satire past and present
Dr David Taylor is talking at the Warwick Words History Festival on Saturday 29th October at the Friends Meeting House, Warwick, at 5.00pm (£5). David's work focuses on British literature and culture of the eighteenth century and is especially concerned with the relationship between literature, visual culture, and parliamentary politics. He writes, "Political cartoonists have been quoting and parodying Shakespeare’s works since the mid-eighteenth century. Looking across three centuries of these images, which refer to plays such as Macbeth and The Tempest again and again, I will explore just how profoundly Shakespeare’s narratives and characters shape the way we see and understand the political world."
He has recently been interviewed about political satire past and present on the Moncrieff Show on Ireland's Newstalk radio station. The link to the interview is here: http://www.newstalk.com/listen_back/8/30954/12th_October_2016_-_Moncrieff_Part_1/. His interview is about half way through this audio recording (use the grey bar at the top to navigate).
AL Kennedy wins Heinrich Heine Prize
Congratulations to AL Kennedy - she has just been awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize by the city of Dusseldorf. The University press release is here.
Her most recent novel, Serious Sweet, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. Her professional website is here.
Kenilworth Arts Festival
Kenilworth Arts Festival is an exciting new festival taking place across a range of venues in Kenilworth between the 12-18 September. There are close connections between the festival and the University, as not only is Warwick sponsoring the festival but two directors of the festival, Lewis Smith and Charlotte Thomas, are current students at Warwick, and a number of the artists are university staff and alumni. Here's the full schedule, and the University's own press release.
The programme features intimate gigs, poetry readings, talks, workshops and a free, open-air fiesta in the beautiful Abbey Fields including:
- David Morley (English Dept.) is curating an evening of poetry as part of the festival programme. Five other award-winning poets will appear alongside David, including a number of Warwick alumni (Claire Trévien, Luke Kennard and Jonathan Edwards)
- Kitty Macfarlane, Warwick alumni, singer-songwriter appearing at a concert in Kenilworth Castle on Saturday 17 September
- The illustrations that appear on the festival’s website and on promotional materials were produced by Warwick alumni Victoria Watson
- Warwick Arts Centre will be running interactive workshops at Fiesta, the free open-air event in Abbey Fields on Sunday 18 September
- Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, writer-in-residence at Lacuna (a project stemming from the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at Warwick), is running a workshop on human rights journalism