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Blog: ‘How does one get a job with an English degree?’ Charul Patel reflects on life, literature and the LRB
A Reflection on a Career Talk by Christopher Taylor of The London Review of Book By C. Patel Charul (Chuckie) Patel is a PhD student in English at Lancaster University […]
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Blog: Jessica Goodman reflects on ‘The Point of View of Posterity’
‘Let posterity be your only point of view.’ La Mettrie, French materialist philosopher, 1750 In eighteenth-century France, posterity was a topic that occupied the thoughts of a great number of […]
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Blog: The Pakistani-born British writer, Qaisra Shahraz, and her visit to Lancaster University
The novelist, screenwriter and college inspector, Qaisra Shahraz, visited Lancaster University on March 11th, at the invitation of the Department of European Languages and Cultures and the AHRC Project Hub: […]
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Blog: Stevie Marsden reports back from Discourse on Literary Celebrity Across Genres
Stevie Marsden is a final year PhD Researcher working on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with The Saltire Society, Edinburgh. Her thesis will consider The Saltire Society’s literary […]
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Rebecca Braun asks: ‘Where is Literary Celebrity? ‘
From What to Where This series of workshops began last September, where we took a multi-disciplinary look at what literary celebrity is. Arguing against prevailing trends in Celebrity Studies […]
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Blog: Allyson Fiddler reflects on multilingual authorship
I’m very excited to be representing the Authors and the World research hub at this year’s Austrian Studies Association conference at the University of Michigan (Dearborn) next week (26-28 March). […]
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What is Literary Celebrity Now?
In 2014-15 we discussed the topic of ‘Literary Celebrity’ from a wide number of different practical and theoretical angles. Click here to watch Rebecca Braun present the hub’s first re-assessment of our terms in […]
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Blog: Critical Challenges to Literary Celebrity
As we gear up for the third event in our series on literary celebrity, we thought we should share the growing archive of our reflections on the topic. This […]
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Ulrike Almut Sandig performs at the Authors and the World hub
The latest event in the series of activities run by the Authors and the World hub (www.authorsandtheworld.com) at Lancaster University takes place on 2 March 2015. As part of the […]
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“The Ghost in the Machine”: Karen Leeder on the Politics and Practice of Translation
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford. She is also a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, including Evelyn Schlag, Raoul Schrott, Michael Krüger, […]
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