School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

Work in Progress

Work in Progress Work in Progress is a seminar series run by School of English Research students.

Work in Progress Mondays, 4.10 - 5 pm, HUB Room Floor 5, Jessop West Date Speaker Affiliation Title 28 September 2009 Jess Meacham, Rebecca Bowler University of Sheffield Introductory Work in Progress - all School of English postgraduates are invited to come along and share details of their research and interests informally 5 October 2009 Sam Kirkham University of Sheffield Metaphor and sexuality in the narratives of ex-gay men 12 October 2009 Jess Meacham University of Sheffield Writing the male body in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy 19 October 2009 Rebecca Bowler University of Sheffield ‘I am somewhere between a man and woman, looking both ways’: appropriation of the male gaze in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage 26 October 2009 Sophie Bush University of Sheffield ‘The Metaphysics of Cultural Genealogy’ in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s After Darwin 2 November 2009 Dave Skinner University of Sheffield Contemporary Adaptations of Shakespeare 9 November 2009 Janine Bradbury University of Sheffield Oprah Winfrey's Beloved 16 November 2009 Ingrid Hanson University of Sheffield Noli me tangere Bébé: May French Sheldon, the Latin motto and the uses of the vernacular 23 November 2009 Jenni Adams University of Sheffield "Into Eternity's Certain Breadth": Ambivalent Escapes in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief 30 November 2009 Kirsten Harris University of Sheffield Representations of Walt Whitman in the Socialist Press 7 December 2009 Jack Windle University of Sheffield Resistance and Pursuasion: Richard Hoggart and the Working-Class Novel 14 December 2009 Sue Burnes University of Sheffield Metaphors unmasked: why Obama walked on water but Musharraf was beaten by a knockout Back to the top