Michaelmas Term 2010 programme

University of Oxford
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)