Event Archive
This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
Some of our public events are recorded and are available as podcasts via our Research English At Durham blog.

Young Adult Fiction and the Male Gaze
The second in a series of three lectures looking at children's literature.
The speaker, Jade Dillon, is a doctoral researcher in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her research interests are in Victorian and modern children's literature, psychoanalysis, cinema, and gender theory.
Other lectures in the series include Children's Literature, Intertextuality and Gender on 6th February and Fairy Tales and Feminist Rewritings on 8th February.
This series of lectures is co-organised by the Department of English Studies and St Chad's College.
Contact s.r.regan@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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Events
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)