2010 | Department of English | University of Bristol

Tucker-Cruse Lecture 2010 7 December 2010 Professor Derek Pearsall to give this year's Tucker-Cruse lecture.

Professor Rick Rylance Lecture, 22 November 2010 29 October 2010 Professor Rick Rylance gives lecture as part of the English Lifelong Learning programme

Professor Elizabeth Archibald gives inaugural lecture 29 October 2010 Professor Elizabeth Archibald gives inaugural lecture

Daniel Karlin and Samantha Matthews join the Department 1 September 2010 Daniel Karlin and Samantha Matthews join the Department of English 1st September 2010

Professor Putter to give Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture 27 August 2010 Professor Putter invited to give memorial lecture in Bristol.

One-day conference - The Humane Reader: Friendship and Literature, 6th July 2010 28 June 2010 This one-day conference aims to explore critically productive ways of talking about the nature and role of friendship in the creation and enjoyment of literary texts.

Medieval plays in modern performance 15 June 2010 Professor of Medieval Studies, Pamela King (Department of English) in partnership with the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, recently secured funding from the Worldwide Universities Network for an international archival project on the modern performance of medieval plays.

Dr Miklós Takács from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, visits the Department of English 15 June 2010 Dr Miklós Takács from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, visits English

Following 'The Absent-minded Beggar' 19 June 2010 1 June 2010 This year, the Kipling Study Day will concentrate on a poem, 'The Absent-minded Beggar'.

One-day event 27 May 2010: Romantic Afterlives 29 April 2010 Centre for Romantic Studies presents a new series of annual colloquia

2010 Postgraduate conference: 'Literature's landscapes: worlds built from words' 2 March 2010 Half-day postgraduate conference 'Worlds built out of Words: Literary Environments' on 28th April 2010

Professor Pam King wins bid to WUN Research Development Fund for Drama project 17 February 2010 Professor Pam King has been successful with a bid to WUN Research Development Fund for a project entitled 'Medieval Plays in Modern Performance: Capturing the Archive'.

Centre for Medieval Studies half-day conference 2 February 2010 Centre for Medieval Studies half-day conference 3 March 2010

Professor Ad Putter consortium award for three-year research project 26 January 2010 Professor Ad Putter awarded research grant from Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

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