Northern Modernism Seminar
Gender, Transnationalism & Travel
Hosted by the Gender Research Group and the Postcolonial Research Group
Room 2.22, Research Beehive
Newcastle University
20 May 2011
9.00-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 David Trotter (University of Cambridge)
Transit Writing: Bowen, Greene, and Others
Chair: Andrew Shail
11.00-11.30 Tea & Coffee
11.30-12.30 Abbie Garrington (Newcastle University)
Manliness and the Modernist Mountaineer: Auden, Isherwood, Mallory and The Ascent of F6
Chair: Neelam Srivastava
12.30-1.30 Emma Short (Newcastle University)
‘A Not Uncomfortable Cell’: The Hotel as Carceral Space in Modernist Women’s Writing
Chair: Stacy Gillis
1.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University) The Spinster, her Parents and the Fear of the Urban in the Fiction of F.M. Mayor and May Sinclair
Chair: Katherine Cooper
3.30-4.00 Tea & Coffee
4.00-5.00 Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)
Placing Modernism
Chair: Emma Short
5.00 Close of Symposium