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Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction

Dystopian Motherhood: May 2, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm

Reading contemporary fiction returns with Dystopian Motherhood, introduced by Fran Bigman2 May 2012, Keynes LibraryIn a 2007 article, Rachel Bowlby writes about how things have changed since the late 1970s or early 1980s, when “feminism was a strong force politically,” a 1960s-derived feminism in which “The emphasis was on the right for women not to have children – on pregnancy and motherhood as burdens, if not as the key to all female oppression… Motherhood, at this time, was really not much…See More

Apr 23

Bianca Leggett updated an event

'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin at Room 112

March 7, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm

Harriet Cooper leads a session which takes a closer look at Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize winning novel... Harriet's research explores the rise of the notion of the ‘normal child’ in Anglo-American culture and its impact on cultural constructions of the physically impaired child. Be there or be smited by our evil eye... Readings are...We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver (Serpent's Tail, 2011)pp. 19-24…See More

Feb 15

Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction

Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology

Come join us on Wednesday March 7th from 6-7.30pm (room 112) when Harriet Cooper leads a session 'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin! Readings to follow.See More

Feb 2

Bianca Leggett posted an event

'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin at Room 112

March 7, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm

Harriet Cooper leads a session which takes a closer look at Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize winning novel... Harriet's research explores the rise of the notion of the ‘normal child’ in Anglo-American culture and its impact on cultural constructions of the physically impaired child. Be there or be smited by our evil eye... Readings are...We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver (Serpent's Tail, 2011)pp. 19-24…See More

Feb 2

David Vichnar joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Jan 22

Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction

What next?

Our next session is as blank as a lovely crisp piece of A4. Please doodle on it for us.See More

Jan 20

Bianca Leggett updated an event

Twenty-First Century British Fiction – A Symposium at 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College

May 12, 2012 all day

Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century. Post-2000 writing has proved itself as arguably wide-ranging and innovative as its predecessors. The post-millennial decade witnessed a new literary generation emerge and establish itself with familiar and less familiar names such as Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, Steven Hall, Philip Hensher, Tom McCarthy, Patrick Neate and Zadie Smith. …See More

Jan 20

Bianca Leggett joined Beatrice Bazell's group

Fragments

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an interest in disengaged or broken-up fragments of bodies, things, concepts, or historical ideas is welcome.See More

Jan 18

Bianca Leggett posted an event

Twenty-First Century British Fiction – A Symposium at 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College

May 12, 2012 all day

Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century. Post-2000 writing has proved itself as arguably wide-ranging and innovative as its predecessors. The post-millennial decade witnessed a new literary generation emerge and establish itself with familiar and less familiar names such as Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, Steven Hall, Philip Hensher, Tom McCarthy, Patrick Neate and Zadie Smith. …See More

Dec 14, 2011

Magnus Bremmer joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Nov 13, 2011

Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction

Borders and belonging: writing the global imaginary

How can the novel capture a globalised world in which communities are often configured along transnational lines, in which the field of play can encompass the entire world? What is its role in interrogating emergent forms of global belonging?Following an introduction from Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck College), we will focus on Hari Kunzru's Transmission. Join us for a discussion of the concept of the global imaginary and of how the novel has gone about imagining it.5.30-7pm, Room 114 (Keynes…See More

Nov 10, 2011

Bianca Leggett posted an event

Borders and belonging: writing the global imaginary at Room 114 (Keynes Library)

December 1, 2011 from 5:30pm to 7pm

How can the novel capture a globalised world in which communities are often configured along transnational lines, in which the field of play can encompass the entire world? What is its role in interrogating emergent forms of global belonging?Following an introduction from Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck College), we will focus on Hari Kunzru's Transmission. Join us for a discussion of the concept of the global imaginary and of how the novel has gone about imagining it. Hari Kunzru,…See More

Nov 10, 2011

Christopher Daley joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Nov 3, 2011

Joseph Brooker joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Oct 31, 2011

Fran Bigman joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Oct 20, 2011

Elena Zezlina joined Bianca Leggett's group

Reading Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More

Oct 17, 2011

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Institutional affiliation: Birkbeck College

Research interests: contemporary literature, travel writing, cosmopolitanism, national identity, Englishness

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At 19:30 on October 16, 2011, Daniel O'Gorman said…: Hi Bianca. It's still very much a work in progress at the moment! Trying to keep it as open-ended as possible. Tea at 5.30 sounds good - see you then.

At 8:48 on June 3, 2011, Harriet Cooper said…: Hi Bianca,

Thanks for your email, I would love to review the book you mention for Dandelion, it looks excellent. Let me know whether you manage to get a copy from the publishers...

Harriet

At 12:23 on February 24, 2011, Eleanor Packham said…: Yes, tea was lovely, wasn't it?

Here's the link to the Liberal Arts thing we we're talking about:

http://www.libartslondon.co.uk/

See you soon, I hope.

Eleanor x

At 8:38 on February 23, 2011, Eleanor Packham said…: See you later, Bianca. I'll give you a text to confirm all is still well to meet. Might need directions too!

Eleanor x

At 12:40 on February 9, 2011, Eleanor Packham said…: Wednesday 23rd sounds good. What time?

At 21:40 on February 8, 2011, Eleanor Packham said…: Tea, tattle and dentistry sounds great, but unfortunately I'm off to Liverpool next week on a research visit. How about the week after?

At 8:10 on February 7, 2011, Eleanor Packham said…: Hi Bianca

It was really good to meet you on Saturday. I'd love to hear more about your research, which sounds so interesting (especially the teeth!), and about your and Alan's symposium.

Catch up soon, I hope.

Eleanor

At 9:35 on November 12, 2010, Adam Lively said…: Hi Bianca,

Enjoyed the Patrick Neate session the other week. Afterwards I remembered a v entertaining Donald Barthelme story, "The King of Jazz" (it's in the Penguin "Sixty Stories") that sends up the jazz ethos/language.

I'd love to hear more about your thesis, and I was going to offer to lend you a copy of a book I published a few years ago - Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination. It might have one or two references that might be useful. Let me know when you're going to be in Bloomsbury next week and maybe we can meet for a coffee.

NB my e-mail is adamlively89@gmail.com
mobile - 07958 623677

Best

Adam

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