2-3pm, Thursday, 11 November, 2021 from 2-3pm in the Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-hour research in progress panel on ‘non-normative lives’, proposed and with presentations by Nicole Chen and Charley Matthews, followed by discussion. The talks today link the reading for the JTB Prize into doctoral research projects, with both presentations speaking to […]

1-2pm, Friday, 29 October, 2021. Room 1.22, 19 George Square. The inaugural Reading Group for ELWN will discuss the seminal work of Laura Marcus, focusing on the ‘Introduction’ and the chapter ‘Auto/biographical Spaces’, from Auto/biographical Discourses. Chair: Maxime Geervliet (Edinburgh). Our first reading is extracted chapters from an essential text for anyone working on life-writing – Laura Marcus‘s Auto/biographical Discourses. […]

Weds 19 February 2020, 12:30-18:00, Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-day life-writing colloquium including a James Tait Black Biography Readers’ Discussion, research-in-progress presentations, and work-in-progress readings, with a visiting talk linked to the English Literature Seminar. Schedule 12:30-13.20    James Tait Black Prize in Biography 2020: Readers’ Discussion (JTB Co-ordinators June Laurenson, Alice Rae and […]

1-2pm, Friday, 23 March, 2018, DHT, LG.06). A one-hour panel on ‘Lives in the Archive’, exploring the place of archives in literature, life-writing, and cultural history, with visiting speakers Alison Light and Dora Osborne. Position papers will be followed by discussion. Chair: Jonathan Wild Alison Light is a writer and currently also Honorary Professorial Fellow in the English Department at […]