Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
PhD Conference 20
10
Saturday May 15th in LTB 10
from 10am - 4pm
All Welcome
Explorations: Re-searching Page, Stage and Screen
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This is a great opportunity for MA,
undergraduate and PhD students to hear some of the research that is
currently taking place in the LiFT
S
department.
Introduction:
Kate
Charlton-Jones.
Panel 1:
Reading with Theor
y
Chair. Keith Currie.
Robin Watkins: Faith and Haunting in
Brideshead Revisited
Dani Mortimer: Researching the Jean
Pool or Postmodernist Literature seen as a Jeanetically Modified
Material.
Ben Pestell - Exposures of the
unnameable in the Oresteia of Aeschylus
Panel 2: Beyond
the Sea: Tourism, Travelling and (re)Tellings. Chair:
Irene Musumeci.
Ben Dooley -
Hollywood Exile and the Tourist Gaze:
An Aesthetic of Travel in the films of Rene Clair.
Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa- An English
Adventurer in Brazil, a Brazilian researcher in England: in search
of Anthony Knivet
Penny Woollard - Derek Walcott’s
Americas: The Death of Sitting Bull, December 1890.
Panel 3:
Conflicting Accounts: representations of clashes and conflicts.
Chair:
Jak Peake
Natasha Mansfield- Tracing Feminine
Agency in the Arab-American War Story Narrative.
Will Kingsbury– TBA – (Topic is
Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi’s first novel Earth and Ashes from
the perspective of self examination in face of overwhelming
tragedy).
Gael Harvey– Montage,
Mädchen and Modernism
Panel 4:
Storytelling and the meaning of time.
Chair:
Kate Charlton-Jones
Mariia Ustymenko- Silent and
Decorated Spaces – Poetry beyond the Word.
Rosalind Green- The Scottish
Travellers: How 'the pilgrims of the mist' became visible through
Story.
Saul Andreetti– Metafiction and
logical paradoxes in Jacques Attali’s La vie eternelle, roman
and Michael Ende’s The Never-Ending Story.