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This group hereby pledges to support the Contemporary Fiction Seminars in all the interesting work they will produce and inspire. For further info please see the events page for upcoming seminars; or contact Tony Venezia or Zara Dinnen.

This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month. Contact [email protected] for further information.See More

A reading group for the discussion of Travel WritingTuesday, 27th January, 7:30- 9:00 pm Room 112, 43 Gordon Square 'Perverse Baedeker': Lee Miller's Vogue Dispatches in WWII Facilitated by Frith Taylor “The Photograph […] a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest, shared hallucination […] a mad image, chafed by reality.” Roland Barthes Camera Lucida The photographs Lee Miller took while…See More

A student-led research seminar focussing on the relationship between literature and the visual, with a focus from 19th century to contemporary. Run jointly by postgraduates from Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, but open to all.We aim to bring together a lively community of researchers from across institutions, and hope to address: methodologies; different media such as painting, film and photography; wider cultural practices, such as fashion and applied arts; and scientific, philosophical or…See More