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‘Your Lovely Books’ by Margaret Drabble
I still wonder why I became and remain a writer, and even when I have gone through the usual justifications- a flexible career for a woman with children, a love of reading and of literature, and, with...
View ArticleOn Writing and Drawing: Theorizing and Practising Creativity with Roland Barthes
12 & 13 November 2015 On Writing and Drawing Interdisciplinary symposium and practice-based workshop Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University Thursday 12 November: Theorizing and Practising...
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Conference Report: World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of...
By Anna-Katharina Krüger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The first conference day started early in the morning, after a wonderful breakfast during which I already had the chance to meet some...
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Thesis of the Month: Schrödinger’s Joyce
In the inaugural selection for our thesis the month, Sophie Corser, PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, speaks about her complicated relationship with Ulysses and Joyce, and the...
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Ulrike Draesner
Ulrike Draesner, deutsche Schriftstellerin. German author Ulrike Draesner returned to Lancaster University from 17th–20th February as Writer-in-Residence, whilst teaching students on the topic of...
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Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author
Umberto Eco died. I wish it were one of his characters stating this; we could then doubt it. One of the many things you learn with Eco’s fiction is namely never to fully trust a narrator, let alone...
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Researching Authorship in the 21st-Century University
9 March was an exciting day in the life of the Hub. We invited researchers from across Lancaster University who work on questions related to authorship in the broadest sense to share their research...
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World Authorship: Charting the Human Face of Literature
Interim report on an idea By Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun Window-shopping in Boston brings up some niche offerings World literature, as both a marketing phenomenon and an area of academic study, is...
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Thesis of the Month: New Commitment: Authors Against the Unacceptable
Chloé Chaudet tells the story of her thesis about literary commitment and how she had to face preconceptions about this phenomenon, which seems outdated to most contemporary literary scholars and...
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Literature in the Digital Space: Beyond the Amateur-Professional Binary
While often presented as a threat to reading and literature, digital technology has opened the literary space by adding entirely new dimensions to it. “Amateur” authors have more opportunity than ever...
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