Helen Chambers is an Honorary Associate in English at the OU. She explores the role that reading played for those embarking on epic voyages to Australia in the late nineteenth century, namely those who travelled on the purpose-built passenger clipper the Torrens
In a series by the OU and Institute of English Studies, Professor Sara Haslam highlights the literature of Mary Ward and Rebecca Solnit, two authors who 'simultaneously appreciate the basic connectedness between members of this human race'
Michael Rodgers' (Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in English, FASS) monograph, Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives, has been awarded The Jane Grayson Prize by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society for a first book of 2018 that makes a significant contribution to Nabokov studies. The prize comes with a $1500 award.
Dr Helen Chambers, an Honorary Research Fellow and former PhD student in the Department of English & Creative writing has collaborated on a new collection of stories by Guy de Maupassant: Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (Riverrun Editions, 2020).
Through presentations by academics, critics, and writers, the spring 2019 seminar series organised by the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group at The Open University will seek to engage with issues of representation and modes of narration, auto/biographical production and reception, and the impact of new technologies on presentation of self and other.
Dr Michael Rodgers, Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in English, has published his first monograph, Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives, with Bloomsbury. In a post for the Bloomsbury Literary Studies blog, Michael describes how he got into Nabokov's writing and where it has taken him.
Dr Sara Haslam’s commentary piece, ‘No More Parades End: Ford Madox Ford’s last library and what it tells us about the “Tietjens saga”’, was published in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 8 June.
Dennis Walder, Emeritus Professor of Literature, has won the third prize in the Fish Publishing poetry competition for his poem 'Someone Said'.
Sue Asbee (Senior Lecturer in English) and Fiona Doloughan (Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing) took part in a Student Hub Live session facilitated by Karen Foley on “Women Writers” on Wednesday, January 31. As well as discussing their contributions on Woolf and Winterson to A335 (Literature in Transition: 1800 to the present), they spoke more generally about inspirational women writers and indicated what students might expect to get from studying a degree in English Literature.
Toby Manning completed his PhD from the English and Creative Writing Department, The Open University, in 2015. A book based on his PhD research has been published in January 2018, John le Carré and the Cold War, by Bloomsbury publishers. In an interview on the Spy Write forum, Toby discusses this and other publications by him on le Carré's work.
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