The Dundee Courier has just published a detailed and lavishly illustrated article on the Dundee Science Fiction Programme’s ongoing efforts to rediscover and republish the work of the lost Scottish father of American science fiction, Robert Duncan Milne. Milne wrote around 70 or more SF stories in the 1880s and ‘90s. Research student Arin Brin’s
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The third annual booklet of verses by Wyvern Poets and guests in response to the theme of this year’s Being Human national festival of the Humanities – ‘New Worlds’ – is now available. Our original intention was to treat the idea of the Moon as the ultimate blank page for the human imagination throughout history.
Join us at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, on Friday 4 December 2020, from 7 – 8pm for a winter walk and take-away food. Keith Williams, reader of English at University of Dundee, will lead the discusses the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, series of six articles that were published in The Sun, a New York newspaper,
Congratulations to PhD Student, Zahra Alamri, who has passed her Viva with flying colours, with only minor corrections. Zahra’s PhD Project is ‘The Role of Gender in Medieval English Theatre’.
Click here to read an article about the ‘Moon Hoax’ of the 1830s.
Congratulations to Centre member, Dr Nicole Devarenne, who is to join the judging panel for the next Arthur C Clarke Award. It will be the 35th Award, for books published in the UK during 2020. The first winner (in 1987) was Margaret Atwood, for The Handmaid’s Tale. Nicole will be one of five judges, nominated
Congratulations to our current Doctoral Fellow, Lauren Christie, for her award of joint-winner of the 2019-20 Honorary Graduates’ Award for Inclusive Practice. This Award is open to both teaching staff and those based in central services. It takes the form of a £1,000 practice development fund and recognises teaching or service delivery which removes barriers
Congratulations to Mr. Adam James Cuthbert (PhD English), whose work has been published in the 29th volume of European Joyce Studies: ‘James Joyce and the Arts’ (May 2020). This special volume collects essays from the 2018 International James Joyce Symposium. Mr. Cuthbert received a scholarship from the International James Joyce Foundation to attend this Symposium.
Practice-based PhD student, Chris Gerrard, has just passed the viva examination for his thesis with minor corrections. Chris’s Scottish Graduate School in Arts and Humanities-funded project focused on ‘The Multi-Image: The History and Possibilities of Visual Collage in Cinema’. For the past three years, Chris has explored the ‘multi-image’, a term he coined to designate