Expressions of Interest & Call for Papers: Sex and Celebrity Workshop Thursday 28th June 2018, University of Portsmouth Keynote Speaker: Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University This one-day PGR Workshop seeks to interrogate the relationship between sex and celebrity – the role of sex in the construction, negotiation and perpetuation of celebrity identity. As well as…
From Brian Jay Jones SAVE THE DATE! BIOGRAPHY BEYOND BORDERS COLLOQUIUM ON AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BIOGRAPHY NOVEMBER 5 2016 In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Oxford, housed at Wolfson College and directed by Professor Dame Hermione Lee, BIO will host a Colloquium on American and European Biography, to be held on Saturday,…
“Life-Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections” Proposals are invited for the “Life-Writing and Celebrity” panel at the Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 22-26 Aug 2016, Galway, Ireland Co-convenors: Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna, Austria, sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at Julia Lajta-Novak, King’s College London, UK, julia.lajta-novak@kcl.ac.uk In recent years, life-writing and celebrity studies have…
