News Archive:
Writers at Essex:
Autumn 2010. Earl Lovelace, Richard Beard and
Tom Raworth will be reading from their work in the Art Exchange on Square 5.
Jonathan Lichtenstein's play, Memory, is performed
in Chicago. Reviews and
comment.
Professor Saree Makdisi
will visit Essex in November 2010 to give two lectures.
LiFTS PhD Conference 2010:
Explorations: Re-searching Page, Stage, and Screen. Saturday 15th
May in LTB10. All are welcome.
Barbara Peirson of the Centre for Theatre Studies is
appearing in The
Enemies Within in Bolton. She and all the other original members
of the cast return to the play about the 1984 Miners' strike which they first
performed in 1985. More details from the
Lancashire Telegraph.
Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau have co-edited a
special issue of Comparative Critical Studies entitled 'Cinematicity',
based on the international conference of the same name held at Essex in 2007.
It includes new articles by Tom Gunning, Ian Christie and others. Link:
http://www.eupjournals.com/journal/ccs
Derek Walcott has been appointed Essex Professor of Poetry 2009 -
2011. He will spend two weeks on campus around the
beginning of each summer term running workshops for creative writing and drama
students and meeting with research students. Each year he’ll also give a
public reading. A programme of his activities will be published soon.
Student News: Jennifer Kitchen who graduated with a
First in Drama in 2008 has been appointed as
Southwark Community Projects Practitioner in Residence at the
Globe Theatre in London. She
will be working with the local schools and community groups,
involving them with productions at the theatre
and running Shakespeare workshops for
schools.
Student Publication News: Dom Turner graduated with a
first in creative writing in 2008. In his third year he studied on Keith
Brooke’s module, Understanding and Writing Science Fiction. Dom has sold a short
story called 'Tick Tock Life' to the long-running Irish science-fiction magazine
Albedo One. Albedo One has won three European Science Fiction Awards and
published lots of major genre authors, including Norman Spinrad, Anne McCaffrey
and Ian McDonald
Centre for Theatre Studies: Summer
School 2009. This year the Summer School will be run in conjunction
with the recently-restored Regency Theatre in Bury St Edmunds.
American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography
LiFTS PhD Conference 2009:
Pioneering Endeavours: Saturday May 9th in
LTB 10. All are Welcome.
LiFTS is presenting a small conference and exhibition,
'The Afterlives of Virginia
Woolf: Reading Woolf in Literature, Visual Arts, and Theatre'. It
will run from 22nd April to 29th May 2009 and is supported by the Knowledge Transfer
Innovation Fund, University of Essex.
The first critical edition with
full English translation of Thomas Hobbes’ Historia Ecclesiastica will
be launched at the University of Essex on 26 February 2009.
The event starts
at 4.30pm and takes place in the Senate Room (4.722).
The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Protonationalism, 1870-1920
(Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2008) by
Jacopo Corrado, an ex PhD student at Essex who graduated
in July 2008, has just been published.
Autumn term 2008. PhD student, Kate Charlton-Jones, is
starting a reading group for all PhD students who are studying American
Literature and are in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of study. See her
research web page
for details.
The Department was sad to learn of the death on 8 October of
Dr
Elaine Jordan, who taught here between 1979 and 2001.
Professor Gabriel Pearson's
obituary for Dr Jordan.
30 September - 2 November. Jonathan Lichtenstein's
play Memory is at The
Pleasance Theatre Islington.
See Guardian
review.
28 September 2008. The Departmental Picnic. On a brilliantly
sunny Sunday members of the Department, with family and friends, walked from
Dedham along the river to Flatford Mill where they enjoyed a picnic.
See some pictures.
10 August 2008. A new publication by Sanja Bahun. the collection of essays,
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate,
edited jointly with VG Julie Rajan, has been published by Ashgate.
Derek Walcott will be visiting the University on 4 October 2008 to receive an
honorary degree and to give a poetry reading. Tickets (£10 or £5 concessions)
are available now from Penny Woollard in 5A.209 or from the Mercury Theatre Box
Office, ticket hotline: 01206 573948 (Monday to Saturday, 10am-8pm), or online
at:
http://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5 from September 5. When telephoning
the Mercury Theatre ticket hotline please specify that you want to buy a ticket
for the Derek Walcott event at the University of Essex. See
pictures of the event
and read the Oration for
Derek Walcott, given by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
Saturday July 26th at about 8.30pm on Radio 3. Angela Livingstone's
translation of a very early piece of semi-fictional poetic prose by Boris
Pasternak is to be broadcast on Radio 3 as a 'Prom' interval reading.
Pasternak did not expect this piece of writing to be published nor did he give
it a title. It will be called 'Evening' for the broadcast but will be
called 'Reliquimini' in her forthcoming book The Marsh of Gold.
Saturday May 31st: 2008 MA Annual Conference,
From
Euripides to Rhizomes: (A)voiding the Void. Room 5A.325, 9.30am - 6.00pm.
All are welcome.
Conference Programme.
A new publication by John Cant: "Vibraciones encarnadas en La niña santa de
Lucrecia Martel," jointly authored with Eva-Lynn Jagoe (trans. Erna von der
Walde) has appeared n El cine argentino de hoy: entre arte y la polític, ed.
Viviana Rangil. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblios, 2007.
From April 2008 Clare Finburgh will be providing regular updates on British
theatre for 'France Culture', France's main radio station for the
arts. Peter Brook will be a guest on her first broadcast at the beginning
of April.
John Cant has published his book Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American
Exceptionalism (2007). He has also edited the 2007 edition of the Cormac
McCarthy Society Journal. His article “Homer in Tishomingo: Eclecticism and
Cultural Transformation in the Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou?" was
published in Comparative American Studies Journal, 2007.
PN
Review (178) has: Adrian May listens to Arctic Monkeys and John Muckle on Ed
Dorn's Theatre of Impatience.
Elizabeth Kuti's attachment to the
National Theatre Studio
for developing new work has resulted in the production and publication of her
new play,
The Six-Days World.
Mara Cottrell, who is studying for an MA in Literature, has recently had a
book published about her home town of
Basildon.
Joe Allard has co-edited
Beowulf and Other Stories (2007)
The University has joined the
Interdisciplinary Research
Training Network (IRTN) based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University. The IRTN runs training
events in literary, cultural, and inter-media studies for postgraduate research
students. There is funding available for students to attend events at Cambridge
or at other participating universities.
Jeffrey Geiger has just published
Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination (2007)
2nd June 2007: The LiFTS MA students held their annual conference FROM HOMER
TO DISNEY: REFRAMING THE MIND. Conference
Programme
Jonathan Lichtenstein's play Memory opened in New York on May 10 2007.
Review from
New
York Times.
News Archive (Pre April 2007)