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Projects in English and Creative Writing
The Surface Studies Network
01/06/2013 →
Liz Oakley-Brown, Rebecca Coleman
... Read more»Culture, Politics, Eschatology: A Symposium
21/09/2012 → 22/09/2012
Paolo Palladino, Arthur Bradley, Bulent Diken, Charles Gere
The symposium's theme is the continuing cultural and political relevance of eschatology. In recent years, diverse contemporary commentators have attended to eschatology. The symposium takes its cue fr ... Read more»Corpus Research in Early Modern English
01/10/2011 →
Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, Alistair Baron, Alison Findlay, Liz Oakley-Brown, Jonathan Culpeper, Ian Gregory, Naomi Tadmor
Summary: We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis is generating unique methods and approac ... Read more»Adapting Theories/Theorizing Adaptations
01/02/2011 →
Kamilla Elliott
... Read more»Shakespearean Skins: Reading, Writing and Performing Corporeal Surfaces in Sixteenth-Century Drama.
01/08/2008 →
Liz Oakley-Brown
This project focuses on sixteenth-century drama's use of 'skin' as a means of initiating relationships between 'the visual and the haptic' (Benthien, 2002: 10). In 1996, Keir Elam discussed what he ... Read more»The chronotope in the age of cinema
01/11/2007 →
Brian Baker
The chronotope is a theoretical term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to identify the means by which the cultural and ideological organisation of concepts of space and time are encoded into literary works. Whi ... Read more»Radiophonics
01/10/2007 →
Graham Mort
Developing British Council project to stimulate creative writing for African radio stations in Uganda and Nigeria that explores a range of social and political issues. ... Read more»Terrorism Before the Letter
01/06/2007 → 01/10/2008
Robert Appelbaum
Terrorism Before the Letter: Literatures of Political Violence in Britain and France, 1559-1660 is sponsored by the the Leverhulme Trust. It is based in part on research previously conducted with sup ... Read more»Adapting 'Shirley' For the Screen
01/05/2007 →
Joanne Baker
Charlotte Bronte's final completed novel, 'Shirley' has only been adapted once for the screen - a silent movie in 1922 - and the print no longer seems to exist. The novel tells a wonderfully visual s ... Read more»Children in horror fiction and film
01/01/2007 →
Jayne Steel
This research project is concerned with 'children in horror fiction and film'. The project will involve looking at how and why the figure of the child is so predominant in the horror genre. The histor ... Read more»Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction
30/11/2006 → 30/12/2009
Lee Horsley
The co-editors of the Blackwell Companion are Charles J. Rzepka, Boston University, and Lee Horsley, Lancaster University. This one-volume overview of crime fiction and film will be 280,000 words lon ... Read more»Criminal Confessions
01/11/2006 →
Lee Horsley
Lee and Katharine Horsley's proposed book, Criminal Confessions, is contracted to Edwin Mellen Press, due for submission in September 2009. It will provide a selection of criminal confessions from fou ... Read more»
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