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Keynote Speakers
Dr Sarah Haggarty (Newcastle University)
Sarah Haggarty is a Lecturer in
Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature in the Department of English
Literature at Newcastle University. Prior to this position, she was Janice Scott Junior Research Fellow in
English at University College, Oxford, and has taught at Southampton and
Cambridge Universities. She is currently Newcastle University’s School's
Liaison Officer and is responsible for managing the relationship
between the English Literature section and Newcastle University’s Partner
Schools.
Sarah
works in the field of eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature
and culture. Her recent publications include the monograph Blake's Gifts:
Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (CUP, 2010), which was nominated for
the CCUE book prize in 2011, and an article on William Cowper and the tempo of
letter writing in Eighteenth-Century Life (2011), and a
readers' guide to Blake's Songs, co-written with Jon Mee. Currently she
is working an article addressing free gifts in Pierre Nicole, Mandeville, and
Turgot, and a second on Thomas Bewick, John Clare, and natural history.
Her next book project, which is
provisionally entitled Economies of Time
in Long-C18th Writing, and will consider heterogeneous temporalities and
how they are represented in almanacs, amatory fiction, it-narratives, and
poetry by Young, Cowper, Smart, Goldsmith, and Blake.
Dr John Holmes (University of Reading)
John Holmes is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at Reading University. He is Programme Director for degrees in English Literature, co-convenor of the MA module Modern English Studies (nineteenth-century) and liaison officer for English and History of Art and Fine Art.
His
primary research interest is nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and
American poetry from the Romantics to the present day. He has specific
interests in literature and science, particularly evolutionary theory; poetic form,
including the sonnet and the epic; and Victorian intellectual culture and
aesthetics, including the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
He has also worked on Renaissance culture, particularly poetry. John held a
Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on Darwinism, poetry and poetics from
2006 to 2008, and is currently working on a new project on the Pre-Raphaelites
and science.
John
is also working with colleagues in Biology, History, French and English on an
AHRC-funded project to see what biologists make of research on biology by
scholars in the humanities. (http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/cultivating-common-ground/).
