Faculty of English Language and Literature
Literature and Science Seminar
Fridays, Hawkins Room, Merton College
(Weeks 3, 5, & 7)
Please note variable start time
Week 3, 3.30pm (29 Oct.)
Dr Martin Willis (Glamorgan): 'Popular Astronomy and
Popular Fiction: Mars and Its Genres'.
Week 5, 2pm (12 Nov.)
Dr Helena Ifill (Sheffield): 'Nature vs. Nurture in the
Victorian Sensation Novel'.
Week 7, 2pm (26 Nov.)
Graduate Forum: Ed Sugden (Linacre College, Oxford) 'Myriads of Ages and Thick-Strewn Celestial Areas': Figurations of Newton in Emerson, Poe and Melville', and David Shackleton (St Catz, Oxford),
‘Geological Fragments and the Ruins of Time: H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine’.
Convenors: Dr Michael Whitworth (Merton)
Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (St Catz)
