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The Mayflowers Steps, Plymouth, 8am - It’s raining. The ocean vista, sky and sea, appear a seamless painted wash of grey - no horizon. By the quay, people mustered together, pointlessly seeking protection from the inclement weather. The group, made up of potters,...

As all good ideas usually start out, the idea for this year’s 2017 ADM PhD Conference developed through a conversation over burgers and chips. What did we want this conference to be? Or perhaps more importantly to ‘not be’? Working at Birmingham City University in the...

8th SKK (Studienkongress Komparatistik) | “Literatur und Ritual” | FU Berlin, 9-11 June 2017 Participating at the 8th SKK (Studienkongress Komparatistik), which is the largest conference for comparative literature in the German-speaking academic world and has...

In 1817, Keats was on the move. Both physically – travelling from London to the Isle of Wight – and poetically – composing the four thousand lines that would make up Endymion – this was a year of journeying, evident in the fluid, experimental themes Keats practiced in...