News Archive

Saul Andreetti, who is studying for an MA in Literature, has had his first book of poems published: La mente e la curva (2007)

 

In January of this year, GTA and PhD student, Wendy McMahon, organised a creative writing day within our department for students from the Colne Community School. Involved in this were Dr Adrian May, Dr Philip Terry, along with four postgraduate students. The day was a great success and Widening Participation have requested further workshops incorporating other schools in the district as well as University Campus, Ipswich, which Wendy is currently organising. If anyone would like to get involved please contact Wendy via email: wjmcma (non essex users please add @essex.ac.uk).

 

The Essex LiFTS Ph.D. Conference took place on 5 May 2007 in Room 5N.7.21. Programme and abstracts of papers

 

Ildiko Olah, Departmental Administrator, has had two of her poems published in Succour, a journal of new fiction and poetry.

 

Bernhard Klein has published On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing (2007).

Elizabeth Kuti has been awarded an eight-week attachment to the National Theatre Studio for developing new work.

 

Elizabeth  Kuti's play The Sugar Wife has been translated into German and ran at the 8th European Theatre Festival in Stuttgart (SETT 2006). The premiere of Die Zuckerfrau was on 17th November 2006.

 

Keith Brooke, creative writer and Web Support Manager at the University of Essex, has just agreed to write reviews of science-fiction paperbacks for The Guardian, starting in January 2007. He is currently putting together infinity plus: the anthology for summer 2007 publication, featuring short fiction by Michael Moorcock, Kit Reed, Stephen Baxter and 23 other authors.

 

November 2006: Two fully-funded Ph.D. studentships are offered for 2007-2010 as part of American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, an AHRC-funded project based in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. Deadline for applications: 28 February 2007. Further details

 

Marina Warner has published Phantasmagoria. Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into Twenty-first Century (2006).

 

Shohini Chaudhuri has published Feminist Film Theorists (2006).

 

Clare Finburgh has co-edited Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (2006).

 

Jonathan Lichtenstein's play Memory was produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru, directed by Terry Hands, in November 2006 and will be performed in Cardiff in December.  See reviews in The Independent and Western Mail.

 

Karin Littau has published Theories of Reading. Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania (2006).

 

Owen Robinson has published Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction (2006).

 

19th July 2006: Members of LiFTS staff at the Graduation ceremony.

 

3rd June 2006: The LiFTS MA students held their annual conference From Shakespeare to Video Games. Programme

 

May 2006: Richard Gray (Essex) and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna) have been awarded a grant of 30,000 pounds by the British and Austrian Academies for a joint project on Transatlantic Exchanges: The South in Europe--Europe in the American South. A colloquium will be held in Vienna with proceedings to be published by the Austrian Academy.

 

A new website devoted to Memory Maps was launched on 20th March 2006 at the Lakeside Theatre. The website is a collaboration between the department's Creative Writing team - Marina Warner, Phil Terry and Adrian May - and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Elizabeth Kuti has been awarded joint FIRST PRIZE in the coveted Susan Smith Blackburn award for best play by a women playwright in the English speaking world.  She won it for The Sugar Wife and was presented with the prize on 25th February 2006.

 

Elizabeth Kuti's play The Sugar Wife opened at the Soho Theatre, London, on Thursday, 19th January 2006, and ran for a month. It has been reviewed in The Guardian.

 

January 2006: Three members of the Department - Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme and Owen Robinson - have been awarded around a third of a million pounds for a four-year Caribbean-focused project entitled American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. The project will support a postdoctoral fellowship, two PhD studentships, two conferences, and research trips.

 

Susan Oliver has published Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (2005).

 

Shohini Chaudhuri has published Contemporary World Cinema (2005).

 

Jeff Geiger has co-edited the 1000-page Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, which includes essays by LFTS staff Shohini Chaudhuri and Karin Littau (2005).

 

Marina Warner acted as curatorial advisor and wrote the catalogue essay for a new exhibition, Eyes, Lies, and Illusions which opened on 6th October 2004 at the Hayward Gallery, London.

 

Recent PhD student and part-time teacher in the Department, Rebecca Tillett, has taken a full-time post in American Studies at UEA.

 

Jonathan Lichtenstein has gained a Fringe First from the Edinburgh Festival for his new play The Pull of Negative Gravity. The play was performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and at the Mercury Theatre Colchester. See the review in The Guardian.

 

Richard Gray and Owen Robinson have co-edited Blackwell's Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (2004).

 

Associate Fellow in the Department, Susan Forsyth, has received a Research Grant of £20,000 from The British Academy to undertake research for a biography of Col. James W. Forsyth.

 

David Dipper (2nd year Drama and Literature) had his first play, FLUSH performed at Soho Theatre from 20th April to 7th May 2004. The play has been reviewed in The Guardian.

 

Richard Gray has published a huge new A History of American Literature (2004).

 

Bernhard Klein has co-edited Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean (2004).

 

Peter Hulme has co-edited a Norton Critical Edition of The Tempest (2003).

 

Val Morgan has published The Legend of Gilles de Rais (1404-1440) in the Writings of Huysmans, Bataille, Planchon and Tournier (2003).

 

David Musselwhite has published Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms (2003).

 

Susan Forsyth has published Representing the Massacre of American Indians at Wounded Knee 1890-2000 (2003).