The politics of piracy in Renaissance England: the case of Thomas Tomkins

Online- via Zoom

22 March 2021, 5:15PM – 7:00PM

IHR Seminar Series: Tudor & Stuart History  with Paul Hammer (University of Colorado Boulder). This work-in-progress paper explores the misfortunes of a gentleman privateer, Thomas Tomkins, who was branded as a pirate after…[Read more]

• “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature”, hosted by the Department of English & German Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This is an online event to be held from Wednesday 08 to Thursday 09 September 2021.  Keynote speakers: Professor Jay Winter (Yale Unive…

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Resurrección simbólica de Hamlet Shakespeare: https://thishugestage.blogspot.com/2021/03/resurreccion-simbolica-de-hamlet.html

Just found my bibliography on  “Maria Edgeworth.” From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. Online at Docsbay. 2018.* https://docsbay.net/a-bibliography-of-literary-theory-criticism-and-philology-s42

The International Conference “Literary Connections: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Literariness” will take place between 30 November- 04 December, 2021. For further information see the document attached and check their website: http://www.literaryconnectionsconference.es

Gender Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal that aims to contribute to the advancement of gender as a theoretical and analytical category. It seeks to strengthen the public debate on gender related issues and to make an impact in an array of disciplines. The journal publishes high- quality, peer-reviewed articles by authors from…[Read more]

• CFP for New Voices in English Studies: ASYRAS VII Conference, which will take place online via Google Meet on 17-18 June, 2021. The Conference is intended as a forum where early-career specialists in English Studies can present the results of their research.  More information here: http://asyras.org/7th/asyras-conference/
• CfP for the Fourth Po…

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This event, hosted by P J Safárik University’s Department of British and American Studies (Kosice, Slovakia), is a joint collaboration with SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English), the University of the Balearic Islands’ British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group and the ‘21st-Century Anglophone Literatures: Narrative an…[Read more]

International Doctoral Symposium: “India Studies: Methodological Approaches to Theories of Affects and Resilience”, to be celebrated online (via ZOOM) from March 22nd-24th, 2021. Deadline for registration is March 1st, 2021. More information in the leaflet that you can find in this email (versions in English and Spanish) and also…[Read more]

• Mr. Turbulent. A Critical Edition. By Jorge Blanco-Vacas (Peter Lang). Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version o…

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• The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) (Virtual) Annual Conference 2021 Friday, 18 June – Monday, 21 June 2021. Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2021. More info: http://sfra.org/SFRA-2021-Call-for-Papers
• The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference: Dickinson and Foreignhood. The conference will be held at the College…

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I love Sara Martin’s blog The Joys of Teaching Literature. Many-sided perspectives on the profession and the discipline and the works… highly recommended! https://blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/