Special Lectures

"Claude McKay, Early Jazz and Literary Form"

"Apparatuses of Fate: Erwin Picastor's Russian Aufstand der Fischer"

"Internationalism, Gender, and Resistance in Seghers/Picastor's Aufstand der Fischer"

"Coming to Terms with Failure: Gender Relations and the Economy in the Victorian Novel"

"Merging Scientific and Literary Craft Knowledge: The Case of Multimodal Imagery"

"Phantom Limb"

"Monstrous Martyrdoms: Reading fin-de-siècle Queer Literature in the Age of Presentism"

"'Our Friend' Angela Davis, the Black Communist Star"

"Laughing about Imperialism: Anti-Colonial Humor in the Works of Ghandi and George Orwell"

"Romantic Nature in the Industrial Revolution"

"Enjungled and engulfed! Dreaming metropolitan disaster through the malevolence of plants in Richard Jefferies' 'After London'"

"'And I myself created Hanrahan': Dissensual Irishness in late Yeats"

"Oscar Wilde, Crime Fiction and the Occult"

"Airwave Populism: US Talk Radio and the Media Aesthetics of the Right"

"Very Normal Insurrections: Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and the Judgement of Literary Authoritarianism"

Charlotte Williams, “Sugar and Slate"

“R.S. Thomas's Poetry"

Raymond Williams, “Border Country"

“Vernon Lee, Music, and Psychological Aesthetics"

“Hedd Wyn's Poetry"

“Kate Roberts's Short stories"

Amy Dillwyn, "The Rebecca Rioter"

“Culture Codes in Children's Literature: Voices from Scotland and Armenia"

“Filming Back: Bollywood Imag(in)ings of Contemporary Britain and Colonial India"

“Decolonising Publishing through Independent Black Publishers"

“Connections, Attachments, Entanglements: Transgender Representation in Fanfiction and its Cultural Contexts"

“An Introduction to Adaptation Studies - Towards a Book Proposal"

“Giving (Up) Hope? George Orwell and Victor Serge"

“Victorian Rent Cultures"

“Religious Toleration and Imperialism during the Restoration: The Case of John Dryden"

“Lucifer Liberty and Light: George Orwell and John Milton"

“Poetry out of bounds. Pamphlet culture and poetry in the anarchy of the civil war public sphere"

“Reading Jeanette Winterson and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”

?"To the Lighthouse: The Mother in the Garden"

"Wales: Its History and Identity"

"June Whitfield and how British sitcom endorsed and undermined cultural norms of feminity and domesticity from the 1960s to the early 21st Century"

"Storms and Teacups: Thomas Hardy's Quiet Catastrophes"

“Metadrama and Metatheatre in Hamlet”

“Getting Sucked into Books: A Literary History of Immersion”

“Strange Meetings: Truces and Exchanges with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century”

"Reading for Happiness"

“Literary Atlas: exploring digital literary geographies”

“Shakespearean Passages to and from India: Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013)”

"Post-Industrial Melancholia: the Brexit vote in Wales" & "Imaging the Internal Colony – vision and narrative in Raymond Williams’s Border Country"

?James Kelman: Working-Class Selves and Radical Narrative in The Busconductor Hines (1984)"

?Reading the Early Modern Diary"

?The Split Self in Anne Bront?’s Agnes Grey“

?The Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones's Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)“

?Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Writers and the Popular Press“

(Br)exits and Entrances: Britishness and the Four Nations post-1945

Angela Carter and Second Wave Feminism workshop

Wales post-Brexit workshop

Fears and Phobias in late 19th-Century Culture

“Another great migration”: Travel, Emigration and Imperialism in George Eliot’s Late Works

"Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cottingley Fairies: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Networks of Fiction, Science and Religion"

"The whites have become black" - Responses to the English Riots of 2011, Critical Whiteness Studies and the Trouble with 'New Ethnicities'

The Symbolic Impact of Women’s Representation on Citizen’s Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect through Survey Experiments

Poetry Reading and Film Screening

Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment: The Quality of Attention

Comedy and Mass Media in Post-War Britain

Office Work and Occupational Health: The Case of Postal and Telegraph Clerks in Victorian Britain

Sticks, Skins, Beards and Bulbs: Artificial Mothers and the Matter of Fiction

YA Literature: Jugendliteratur, Literaturvermittlung und transnationale Buchm?rkte

Culture in British Cultural Studies

Spenser's Ireland, Ireland's Spenser:?Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Elizabethan Legacy

Other Stories: Strangers and Intrusions in Ali Smith's Fiction

Early Modern Literature and Political Thought:?Shakespeare, Lipsius, Montaigne

Anne Clifford's Great Books:?A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place

An Introduction to Sikhism and its Place in the UK today

The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebrations

Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialogue

Renaissance Literary Careers

Dylan Thomas as a WWII War Poet: Flowers, Bodies, Terrors

Writing Conflict 1934-37

The Lion 百利宫_百利宫娱乐平台￥官网 for the Lamb: Revisiting Edmund?Spenser, C.S. Lewis, and Disney's Lion King

Problems of Identity: Language, Race and Nationhood in the?Literatures of Wales

Motherland?:?Gendered Constructions of Wales in art and poetry

Early Modern 'Science Fiction' (Francis Godwin, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon)

Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis'? and the Vicissitudes of Intertextuality

Woolf's Signifying Dog and the?Missing Lynx: Animalous Readings in Poe, Woolf, Lacan and Derrida

Places of Meaning,?Ways of Knowing: Sense-Making in the Sensation Novel

Grandmothers' Dreams: Heredity and Replication in D.?H.?Lawrence and Henry James"

Looking for 'Eve Smith': Female Responses to Political Economy, c. 1790 - 1840

Diseases from the Belly to the Heart:?Sex an Gender Matter!

Ageing and?Mortality in Dickens and Wilde

Disastrous Birth-Nights: Childbed and Child-Birth in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Reflections on Gender and Medicalization

The Dragon's Two Tongues: Literature and Language Politics in Contemporary Wales

Fashionable Disease and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Boys of St. Columb's

A? Boethian Paradigm in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": Some formal and verbal evidence

Was there a Victorian "Double Standard" of Ageing?

The Unnatural Youth of the Old "New Woman

Senile Sexuality

The New Old Man and the Neutral?Man-Woman:?Gender and Ageing in Victorian Fiction

The Invention of the "Ageing" Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: Late Style and German Critics

The True Morality of Fiction: Ageing Truths in Some Writings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Worst Agers: Children as Old People in Victorian Fiction

Freedom of Testation in Victorian England

The fin-de-siècle's Literary and Scientific Discovery of Ageing

Re-assessing the "Old" in the Lives and Afterlives of Arnold Bennett's 'The Old Wives' Tale'

A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century's View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age

The Political Uses of Forgetting: Nationalist Nostalgia on the Jacobean Stage

Why has the New Woman never a word to say for herself on the stage? Feminism and the English Theatre in the 1890s

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: From Research to Novel, Play Script to Stage Performance

F?rderung [mit Peter Waller]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

Sensational Strategies: Women's Authorship, Editorship and Performance in the Victorian Press;

F?rderung [mit Katharina Boehm]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

'Double Colonization' and Female Authorship

Gendered Authorship in the Henry James Circle

Little Savages, Dwarfs and Bottled Babies: Childhood, Popular Science and Literature in the Victorian Period

'An insane desire to see the author': Herman Melville, Henry James and the Gendered Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Authorship

The Lake Poets: Romantic Subjectivities, Topography, and Authorship

Dame Nature’s Imagination: Creation, Creativity and Gender in Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination

'Amaz'd we read of Nature's early Throes': Gender and (the) Creation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Enlightenment Struggles over Gender and Creation: The Debates on Spleen

Gender, Creation and Authorship in the Late Middle Ages

Philomela, Gender, and Poetic Myths of Origin

And ye shall know the truth, Or, The Gospel according to Darwin

Imitation of Similar Beings: Social Mimesis as an Argument in Evolutionary Theory around 1900

Against Genres: Shakespeare's Mingled Drama

F?rderung: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

Manufacturing Monsters: The Experiments of Professor Higgins and Dr. Moreau

F?rderung [mit Rainer Emig]: Studieneinheit Gender Studies