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Studies / 23 May 2018

Information for new students: autumn term 2018

How to sign up for compulsory courses.

Research / 16 April 2018

Seducing with words: The role of language in the pick-up artist’s make-believe

Daria Dayter writes a post for the university's science blog 'Sci Five' covering her collaborative research with Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) on the discourse of pick-up artists, a self-proclaimed speed-seduction community.

04 April 2018

Michelle Witen interviewed by the James Joyce Quarterly for its "Clever, Very" series

Michelle Witen is featured in the latest instalment of the James Joyce Quarterly's "Clever, Very" series. In the interview, Witen discusses the upcoming "Joycean Animals" workshop at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation (co-organized with...

23 March 2018

Michelle Witen publishes «James Joyce and Absolute Music»

Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure and his participation in the growing modernist discourse...

23 February 2018

Annual Report 2017 is out

The Annual Report 2017 of the Department of English is published and available for download.

Upcoming Events

• 24 May 2018 18:00 - 20:00

  «Finnegans Wake» Reading Group

  The thirteenth meeting

• 30 May 2018 19:15 - 21:00

  Energies in the arts: Opening questions

  Prof. Douglas Kahn (UNSW, Sydney)

• 16 Jun 2018

  Bloomsday

  A Celebration of James Joyce's Works

• 05 Aug 2018 – 11 Aug 2018

  Joycean Animals

  The Annual James Joyce Workshop

• 12 Sep 2018 14:15 - 15:45

  Exam retake «Language in the courtroom»

  (lecture no. 50519-01)

• 14 Sep 2018 10:15 - 11:45

  Exam retake «The History of English»

  (lecture no. 21837-01)

• 19 Sep 2018 16:15 - 17:45

  Exam retake «Postcolonial and Transnational Theories and Literature»

  (lecture no. 46877-01)

Past Events

• 18 May 2018 16:00 - 18:00

  Speculative Temporalities

  «New Developments in Theory» lecture series: Prof. Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)

• 15 May 2018 13:00 - 14:00

  Connections in the mental lexicon: On the distribution of phonetic features

  Dr. Tomas Lehecka (Åbo Akademi, Turku)

• 09 May 2018 12:15 - 14:00

  Oil’s Returning Monsters – Petrofiction, Petroculture, Energy Humanities

  Dr. Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick)

• 02 May 2018 18:00 - 20:00

  «Finnegans Wake» Reading Group

  The twelfth meeting