The Elizabeth Bowen Birthday Lecture – 'Treading on Bowen's grave - Writing The Last Day at Bowen's Court' by Dr Eibhear Walshe (University College, Cork).  Introduced by the Elizabeth Bowen Society co-chairs, Dr Nicola Darwood (University of Bedfordshire) and Dr Nick Turner (Open University).   In this birthday lecture, Eibhear Walshe discusses his experience of fictionalising…

  What do novels mean at a time of crisis and which novels did readers turn to in this one? Was it old favourites or books that helped them to make sense of the present predicament? Reading Novels During the Covid Pandemic reports on a major ethnographic study of fiction readers in the UK and Denmark,…

Digital Futures: Towards a New Definition of English Studies Please join us for a discussion of how English might best embrace a digital future with Prof Clare Hutton (Loughborough) and Dr. Alistair Brown (Durham) . Speakers Alistair Brown is Assistant Professor (Teaching) in Digital Humanities and Modern Literature, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research…