Seminars

Sydney English Research Seminars Second Semester 2009

Friday 3-5, Rogers Room (N397)
Woolley Building, University of Sydney


July 31 Will Noonan
On the perils of talking of the French about Humour: from the history of laughter to metafictional histories

August 14 Lachlan Brown
Reading some silences in Kevin Hart's poetry

August 28 Margaret Rogerson
Sydney and York: Researching Medieval Plays

September 11 John Kerrigan
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows

September 25 Robert Jones
Duelling with Sheridan

October 9 Alex Jones
Relational syntax and literary judgements: the case of Piers Plowman

October 23 Vic Burrows
Shame is a Skin Thing

Sydney English Research Seminars First Semester 2009

Friday 3-5, Rogers Room (N397)
Woolley Building, University of Sydney


March 6 Sarah Gleeson-White
Faulkner's Go Down Moses: An American Frontier Narrative

March 27 Robin Marsden
Brennan's Belle Époque: Texts and contexts

April 3 Liam Semler
Shakespeare Reloaded: Linkage Projects and Ardenspace

April 10/17 – AVCC WEEK – NO SEMINAR

April 24 Judith Barbour
The Doc, the Governor, the Commodore, the Rum Rebellion and the work of writing.

May 8 Mark Byron
Digital Codes and Bibliographical Codes: Editing the Digital Variorum Edition of Ezra Pound’s Cantos

May 22 Dave Kelly
Narrative and Narration in John Ford's The Searchers

June 5 Will Christie
‘Wars of the Tongue’ in Maga’s Edinburgh

June 19 Peter Denney
The Harmonious Din of Happy Britannia: Scythes, Swords and the Patrician Georgic Soundscape, 1700-1760

Sydney English Research Seminars Second Semester 2008

Friday 3-5, Rogers Room (N397)
Woolley Building, University of Sydney


August 22 Brigid Rooney (Sydney)
Public Recluse: Patrick White’s Literary-Political Career

August 29 Simon During (Johns Hopkins)
Globalising Australian Literature? Stalinism, Modernism, World Literature and Christina Stead

September 5 Katrina Schlunke (UTS)
Possession Island

September 12 Alex Jones (Sydney)
Beowulf: Text and Form

September 19 No seminar

September 26 Lindsay Tuggle (Sydney)
The Haunting of (Un)Burial: Mourning the ‘Unknown’ in Whitman’s America

October 3 No Seminar/ AVCC Week

October 10 Dan Anlezark (Sydney)
Word-games and Warring Elements in the Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn

October 17 Peter Marks (Sydney)
Borders, Bodies and Balls: Surveillance and Utopian Imagining

October 24 Vanessa Smith TBA (Sydney)

October 31 Melissa Hardie TBA (Sydney)

Sydney English Research Seminars First Semester 2008

Friday 3-5, Rogers Room (N397)
Woolley Building, University of Sydney


March 14 Liam Semler (Sydney)
Margaret Cavendish the Liar: A Duchess and a Physician in the Alembic of Learning

March 21 and 28 No Seminar (Easter)

April 4 Huw Griffiths (Sydney)
Shakespeare, pathos and sovereign violence

April 11 Kath Bode (Sydney)
Sex, Lies and Statistics: Quantitative Models of the Relationships Between Gender, Novels and Criticism in Australian Literary History

April 18 No Seminar (Challis Chair Presentations)
April 25 No Seminar (Anzac Day)

May 2 Simon Petch (Sydney)
Stepping Westward: Dancing, the Western and John Ford

May 9 Bernadette Brennan (Sydney)
Lines of Exposure: Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing

May 16 No Seminar

May 23 Richard Smith (Sydney)
Double Indemnity and the Injunction to Memory

May 30 Nicolette Stasko (Sydney)
Orientalism and Women: A Feminist Perspective

June 6 Kate Flaherty (Sydney)
The Origin of Shakespeare Studies as a University Subject

June 13 Julian Pindar (Sydney)
Library Thing

June 20 Guy Davidson (Wollongong)
Bar and Dog Collar: Scene and Temporality in Jane DeLynn