A Postgraduate Conference
University
of Birmingham, April 18th 2014
Dr Jason Harding (University of Durham)
Prof. Steve Ellis (University of Birmingham)
Call for Papers
In the past decade our understanding of T. S. Eliot and his work has
been significantly enhanced by a number of important studies. Most recently, Barry
Spurr’s ‘Anglo-Catholic in Religion’: T. S. Eliot and Christianity (2010) helped
to clarify the nature and evolution of Eliot’s Christian belief. Elsewhere, in T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003), David Chinitz
challenged the previous perception of Eliot as a highbrow elitist opposed to popular
culture. In addition to the
aforementioned seminal works, the commencement of the T. S. Eliot Research Project has granted
researchers and academics unprecedented access to archival resources from
around the world, including those owned by Mrs Valerie Eliot, the Eliot Estate,
and Faber & Faber Ltd. To date, this has resulted in four volumes of
correspondence, and scholars now eagerly await the release of new fully
comprehensive collections of Eliot’s complete poems, prose and plays. Undoubtedly, this is an exciting period in Eliot studies and as we
approach the 50th anniversary of Eliot’s death, this conference
seeks to draw attention to the multifarious research into Eliot’s life and work
which is currently being undertaken.
We welcome papers from postgraduate and early career researchers which
address all areas of Eliot studies, which may include:
- Eliot and Popular Culture
- Eliot and Interdisciplinary studies
- Psychoanalysis – gender, sexuality and desire.
- Landscape, environmentalism and ruralism
- Eliot and Modernism
- Eliot and Publishing
- Eliot and Correspondence
Please send 300-400 word proposals along with a brief 100 word academic
biography to Jeremy Diaper (jxd668@bham.ac.uk) and Matt Geary (mkg703@bham.ac.uk) by December 1st 2013 .
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