The English Showcase 2021 (16 June, Online)
10:45 - Welcome from Professor Svenja Adolphs, Head of School for the School of English
11:00 - Identity and experience in fiction and poetry (Chair: Professor Jim Moran)
Emma Stirland, Logic of the Flesh: Touch in D.H. Lawrence's
The Blind Man and
You Touched Me Amy Bouwer, 'I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin': Judith Wright's Decolonial Poetics
Lucy Boynes, 'The sick voice inside her': The self and other dichotomy and gothic representations of mental illness in
The Haunting of Hill House and
Lighter Than My Shadow This panel will be followed by a 15 minute break.
12:00 - Linguistic Identity Formation (Chair: Dr Helen Buckler)
Wirdatul Khasanah, It takes two to tango: But why woman always being blamed in infidelity?
Xinmei Sun, Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of news reports on female medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Ruth Serlin, 'After all, I'm only human': how veterinarians create a professional identity relating to animal euthanasia
This panel will be followed by an hour long break for lunch.
14:00 - Adapting form, creating fiction (Chair: Dr Christina Lee)
Michaela Villano, English and Italian Arthurian Medieval Romances from the 13th to the 15th Century: A Comparative Study
Lilith Lear Hudson, Technological Threats and the Metafictional Mode: Analysing Dystopias in George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Lionel Shriver's
The Mandibles (2016)
Joe Paternoster, 'God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!': Marvel's Thanos as a solution to the death of God in an increasingly secular Western world.
Simeon Cherepov, Out of site, out of mind: escaping from and into the occult in
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
This panel will be followed by a 15 minute break.
15:15 - How its made: constructing language and literature (Chair: Dr Joe Jackson)
Noor Dabbas, 'Just Google It': A Cross-Corpus Study of Conversion and Cognitive Grammar
James Stevens, 'For you know only a heap of broken images': how does T.S. Eliot transform his presentation of disillusionment from manuscript to publication in
The Waste Land Anna Gant, 'The End is the Beginning': The 'What' and 'Whys' of Fanfiction in the Words of Those Who Are Both Fanficcers and Traditionally Published Writers
This panel will be followed by some closing remarks.
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