Centre for Literature and Writing Visiting Speaker Series 2017-18

20 September 2017, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Howard Booth (University of Manchester): ‘Rabindranath Tagore and Modernism: Translations of The Home and the World

31 October 2017, 5:00 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Rachel Sykes (University of Birmingham): ‘TMI: Acts of Oversharing in Contemporary American Women’s Writing’

8 November 2017, 8:00 pm, Lighthouse Books (free but ticketed event – tickets from Lighthouse Books)
Toby Martinez de las Rivas: Reading poetry from Terror (2014) and Black Sun (2018), in conversation.

15 November 2017, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay (University of Burdwan): ‘“Disruptions”: Rise of Free Church of Scotland and its Impact on Bengali Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century’

6 December 2017, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh):'”Old Tales Retold”: Mona Noel Paton and the forgotten history of women writers for children in c19th Scotland’

8 February 2018, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Rory Waterman (Nottingham Trent University): Title TBA

Date and time TBA, Lighthouse Books (free but ticketed event – tickets from Lighthouse Books)
Dr Rory Waterman: Reading poems from Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013) and Sarajevo Roses (2017), in conversation

28 February 2018, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Sarah Jackson (Nottingham Trent University): Title TBA

Date and time TBA, Lighthouse Books (free but ticketed event – tickets from Lighthouse Books)
Dr Sarah Jackson: Reading poems from Pelt (2013) and  Ten Poems on the Telephone (2017), in conversation

7 March 2018, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Professor Simon James (Durham University): Title TBA

14 March 2018, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2
Dr Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier University): ‘The 9/11 Novel and Genre’