Steve Gellatly performs an original live musical score to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s silent film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). This event is open to all staff and students and is particularly recommended for students studying film noir and Hollywood and European cinema. Please come and join us in Dalhousie
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4 Dec 3:00PM Location: Room 4.34, Scrymgeour Building This seminar hosted by the Tayside Suicide Research Network will be delivered by Professor Mark Robson (Chair in English & Theatre Studies, University of Dundee). Professor Robson joined UoD in 2013 as Chair of English and Theatre Studies. He has expertise in modern literature, including Shakespeare; literary
The Centre has made a successful bid to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities for funding for a PhD to start this October, and is now in the process of recruiting. The deadline is close (31 July), with interviews scheduled for 18 August. The studentship is under the Creative Economies scheme, so the
We are very pleased to welcome the following speakers to Dundee in autumn 2017: Wednesday 27 Sept 2017, 5 – 7pm – Prof Rory Stewart, Poet and Professor of English Literature at Stirling University (Venue to be confirmed) Wednesday 25 October 2017, 5 – 7pm – Dan Shand – Novelist who graduated with MA (Hons)
Lauren Christie began her PhD in English at the University of Dundee in January 2017 under the supervision of Dr Daniel Cook, an expert on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Lauren recently received the Jacqueline M. Albers Guest Scholar in Children’s Literature Fellowship at Kent State University. Her research examines the relationship between the history of
Dundee University is delighted to have world exclusive access to the international Notting Hill Editions essay prize short list due to the role of Writing Practice and Study and its associated on-line arts magazine, DURA. In advance of the prize’s announcement in two weeks’ time, Dr Gail Low has secured rights to publish excerpts from
To celebrate the launch of our new M.Litt in Crime Writing and Forensic Science, the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures will host a seminar on Wednesday 14 June in Dalhousie 2F13, starting at 9.45am. We are delighted to announce the involvement of Prof Ian Burney (Director of CHSTM, University of Manchester), who will speak
Read a review of ‘The Voyage Out’, a collection of essays edited by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low, in the India edition of the Telegraph, Friday 21 April 2017. https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170421/jsp/opinion/story_147367.jsp
The Conversation has just published a piece on Robert Duncan Milne, the local writer rediscovered by one of our students, Barry Sullivan, who became a founding father of American SF. http://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968
Thursday May 25th 5-6.30pm in the Baxter Suite, 1st Floor, Tower Building, University of Dundee (doors open 4.30pm) The latest edition of the University’s little magazine of creative writing, Dundee Writes, is dedicated to the much-loved poet and scholar Jim Stewart, who died last year. As Jim himself quipped, he taught in the University