Poetry and Melancholia 7-9 July 2011 Thursday 7th July 2011 From 2:00 Registration (Crush Hall) 3:30-3: 45 Welcome address, Professor Douglas Brodie (Head of School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling) 4:00-5:00 Keynote 1 (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre) Professor Catherine Maxwell (University of Queen Mary) The Pleasures of Melancholy Chair: Professor John Drakakis 5:00-6:30 Parallel Sessi ...
Don Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ promotion in 1994. In 2002 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award. His first collection of poe ...
David Riede (Professor) (Ph.D., University of Virginia): Romantic and Victorian poetry and poetics. Author of Oracles and Hierophants: Constructions of Romantic Authority, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Revisited, Swinburne: A Study of Romantic Myth-making, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision, Matthew Arnold and the Betrayals of Language, Allegories of One’s Own Mind: Melan ...
Catherine Maxwell is Professor in the department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century literature with a particular emphasis on the Victorian period. She has published the monographs The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (Manchester University Press, 2001); Swinburne in the British Council series Writers and Their Work ...
Susan J. Wolfson, Professor of English at Princeton University and General Editor of Longman Cultural Editions, is a specialist in British Romanticism. Among her critical studies are The Questioning Presence (1986); Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry (1997); Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender (2006); and Romantic Interactions: Social Being & the Turns of Literary Action (2010). With ...
Dr David Miller, General Editor, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (JLTS) is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal with a critical, theoretical, and methodological focus on the relationship between literature and trauma. It aims to foster a broad interrogative dialogue between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism and develop new ...
