Listen to recent recordings from seminars organised by the Department of English:

Department of English research seminars

• Dr Andrea Brady (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Melting in Renaissance Poetry'

MA in English Literature seminars

• Dr Mark Rowe (UEA), 'Philip Larkin: Art and Self' (*now put forward for the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize*)
• Dr Sarah Carter (University of Leicester), 'Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature'
• Professor Jaqueline Labbe (Warwick), 'Writing Romanticism'

The MA in English Literature seminars feature academics speaking informally about their recently published books.

The speakers talk about the content and impact of their books, but also about how the books came about: their own methods of research, their styles of writing, the process and experience of talking to publishers and editors, and so on.

In presenting such biographical and human accounts of published and authoritative works, the seminars are of particular interest to MA and PhD students who are at the beginning of their own research careers.

'Medicine, Health and the Arts in Post-War Britain' seminar series

• Dr James Whitehead (King's College, University of London), 'Common Concerns? Literature and Medicine since 1945’
• Dr Patrica Novillo-Corvalán (University of Kent), ‘A Case Study in Post-War Literature and Medicine’
• Fiona Hamilton, 'The Heart of the Matter: Creating Meaning in Health and Medicine through Writing in Post-War Britain'

'Medicine, Health and the Arts in Post-War Britain' was a four-seminar series funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust and led by the University of Exeter. The series had close links with our intercalated BA Medical Humanities.

These recordings were from second half-day seminar: Medicine, Health and Literature.