Congratulations to one of our PhDstudents, Nick Mulgrew, whose new novel, A Hibiscus Coast, came out last month in South Africa, and has already received some great reviews, including five stars in SA’s largest newspaper. More information at https://www.nickmulgrew.co.za/a-hibiscus-coast/)
Centre for Critical & Creative Cultures News and Events
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
We are delighted to announce that the Centre will be hosting an event on 24 March 2021 with Samuel Weber, to celebrate the forthcoming publication of his new book, Singularities: Poetics and Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Some chapters of the book will be the focus of a reading group in the new semester.
The Work-in-Progress seminars will restart in 2021. The first sessions will be: 3 Feb Michael Gratzke 17 Feb Thom Giddens More information on these and other sessions will appear here in the new year.
A new reading group to be organised by Mark Robson and Heather Yeung will be launched in the new year. Please check back here in January for details of the first readings.
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.