Literature, History, Theory

Encompassing a wide spectrum of literary traditions and their intersections with history and theory, the MLAC LHT Research Group offers a forum for colleagues within and beyond the School to present and discuss their research. Regular meetings of the group provide a platform for exploring a range of questions of cultural production, reception and impact across the centuries.

The group engages with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of a wide array of literary expressions, in which consideration of language, style, technique and genre is entangled with questions of cultural, historical and material context. Literary texts, in their formal, aesthetic, documentary, social and cognitive dimensions, are treated as a powerful and dynamic communicative practice that has played, and continues to play, a foundational role in the construction and definition of human conditions, collective identities and cultural communities.

The LHT Research Group offers a critical space for intellectual and strategic exchange between colleagues and postgraduates from all MLAC departments. It aims to foster new synergies of inquiry, to provide an interdisciplinary environment for collaborative projects across different literary traditions, and to engage collectively in the activities of various research centres and institutes both within and beyond the University.

LHT Events (2013)

All meetings will take place in room A56 unless otherwise stated.

Epiphany 2013

Wednesday 13 Feb, 12.00

Andy Byford: Scientific / Intellectual Movements

Thursday 21 Feb, 5.00

Philip Cooke (Strathclyde): Title tbc

Thursday 7 March, 5.00

Neil Kenny (All Souls, Oxford): Title tbc (respondent David Cowling)

Easter 2013

Thursday 25 April, 5.00

Anna-Katharina Schaffner: Towards a Cultural History of Exhaustion

Thursday 16 May, 5.00

César Braga-Pinto: Raul Pompeia's Struggle: Honor, Emancipation and Nationalism in Brazil's fin-de-siècle 

Members of the LHT Research Group: