Literary Identities: Kingdoms, Nations, Villages

CFP and announcement for the annual Post-Graduate English Literature conference, held at King’s College, London.

We are inviting papers from Postgraduate English Literature and Language students studying at the Colleges of the University of London. MA students who are interested in furthering their studies are also very welcome to apply.

This year, we are taking the theme of Kingdoms, Nations and Villages to explore how literature has represented, interpreted and subverted identities. Recent research at Kings (such as the Leverhulme funded Commodities and Culture Network as well as comparative literary scholarship in the Menzies Centre) has suggested that this theme would provoke a timely inter-Collegiate, inter-period critical discussion and conversation.

We are excited to invite Professor Paul Gilroy as our guest-speaker. He has previously been professor at LSE, Yale and Goldsmiths College, and now works within the English department at King’s. Professor Gilroy’s scholarly interest encompass postcolonial studies and the formation and reproduction of national identity especially with regard to race and “identity”.