The Dept.of English runs a weekly research seminar where postgraduates and staff take turns in presenting their research. Undergraduates, postgraduates and staff from across the humanities are all welcome to attend these one-hour sessions, held on Wednesdays in Queen's Room MR1 between 1:00 and 2:00pm. The Department's Director of Staff Research and a member of the Department's postgraduate community organise the staff and postgraduate speakers respectively.
Feminist
Research
Network
The Feminist Research Network (FRN) is a research and discussion forum which aims to provide a base for all undergraduates, postgraduates and staff who are interested in feminism and gender studies. The discussion group allows researchers from a multiple of disciplines to present their own work in a friendly, interdisciplinary environment, as well as to engage in lively debate.
The FRN has close links with other feminist and gender research groups, such as GENCAS (http://www.swan.ac.uk/research/centresandinstitutes/GENCAS/) and the FWSA (http://www.fwsa.org.uk/) and disseminates information from these centres of research to the low-volume FRN mailing list. The FRN is also part of the wider project of the Twentieth Century Research Group at the Department of English and the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE) here at Exeter. For further details regarding CISSGE, visit our website: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/centres/cissge/
The FRN meets twice every term and the discussions are also video-linked to the Tremough campus. Details of forthcoming seminars are advertised on campus and through the FRN members list. If you would like to receive details of forthcoming FRN events, please contact Michelle Parslow (
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English staff and postgraduates also run several informal reading groups:
The Contemporary Reading Group
Meets fortnightly to discuss fiction and poetry from the past 20 years. We are an unpretentious and opinionated group, the tone is informal and friendly. For more information just email Kate Hext on
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The Creative Writing Research Group
Meets fortnightly in the Senior Common Room in Queen's Building. Meetings are arranged by Sally Flint who can be contacted at
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The Critical Theory Reading Group
Meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 4pm in the Senior Common Room, Queen's Building. Meetings are arranged by Graham Matthews who can be contacted at
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The Film Studies Reading Group
Meets every other Monday at 6pm in Clydesdale House. For more information please contact Lisa Stead (
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The 20th Century Reading Group
The group meets fortnightly on Wednesdays at 4pm in the Postgraduate Common Room, Queen's Building. We welcome staff, postgraduates and undergraduates.
For more information please contact Georgina Willms (
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Autumn Term reading:
15 October: Catch 22. Joseph Heller (1961)
29 October: Franny and Zooey. J.D.Salinger (1962)
12 November: The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath (1963)
26 November: A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess (1963)
10 December: Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Renaissance Reading Group
The group will meet every other Wednesday between 4-5pm in the SCR (conveniently located next to the cafe).
Please contact Vicky Sparey (
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The Romanticism Reading Group
Meetings fortnightly on Tuesdays in the Postgraduate Common Room, Queen's Building between 1:00 and 2:00 pm. Organised by Isabelle Cosgrave(
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Visit the Eighteenth Century Narrative Research Consortium web pages.
The Modernisms Discussion Group
Meetings in 'The Jolly Porter' weekly, Tuesday 6 pm (unless otherwise indicated). Organised by Andrew Griffiths (
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