Programme

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Friday 9th July

 

10.15–10.30 – WELCOME

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10.30–11.45 – Panel 1: Mew’s Poetic Persona: Reclusiveness, Revelation and the Dramatic Monologue

 

Professor Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary University of London), ‘Reticence and Revelation in the Poetry of Charlotte Mew’

 

Dr Sarah Parker (Loughborough University), ‘Charlotte Mew’s Self-Effacing Celebrity’

 

Dr Alex Murray (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Charlotte Mew’s Silence’

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12.00–13.15 – Panel 2: Space, Place and Perception in Mew

 

Dr Laura Helyer (Independent Scholar), ‘Rooms of Longing and Dissociation in Charlotte Mew and C. P. Cavafy’

 

Dr Christina Maria Mirza (St Xavier's College, Kolkata), ‘Spectral Portraits: The Technology of Narration in Mark Stafford’s Wife’

 

Colton Valentine (Yale University), ‘“The room in Paris, the room in Geneva”: Charlotte Mew as Travel Writer’

 

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14.00–15.15 – Panel 3: Mew’s Ecologies

 

Dr Jack Thacker (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Women and Trees: Charlotte Mew and Sylvia Townsend Warner’

 

Ryan McNab (Durham University), ‘Melancholy Mew: Emotions, Queerness, and Rurality’

 

Riley Hanick (University of Iowa), ‘Figure, Ground and Crisis: Charlotte Mew’s Arboreal Affinities’

 

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15.30–16.45 – Panel 4: Mew’s Queer Forms

 

Ruth Hobley (Queen Mary University of London), ‘“This forgotten you and I”: Equivocal Address in the Poems of Charlotte Mew’

 

Frankie Dytor (University of Cambridge), ‘“The past is a stupid corpse”: Charlotte Mew and Trans Views on History’

 

Grete A. Norquist (University of Houston), ‘Intimacy with the Imagined and (Un)real: Theorizing Contact through Sara Ahmed & Charlotte Mew’

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17.00–18.00 – Keynote

 

Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA) – ‘Charlotte Mew and the Chick Sisters’

 

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19.30–20.30 – Evening Event

 

'This rare spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew': An evening with Julia Copus