by cathycollins | Jul 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many of the German-speaking refugees interned as ‘enemy aliens’ during the Second World War had backgrounds in the arts, and cultural endeavour flourished in the Isle of Man internment camps. In this blog post, Miller Archivist Clare George looks at the records of...
by cathycollins | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Tilmann Altenberg reports on the international conference hosted by the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University on 23–24 January 2020. In their journey across time, cultural and linguistic boundaries, and different artistic media, comics undergo multiple...
by cathycollins | Jul 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
At the end of 2019, the German Sebald Society was founded in Allgäu, the former home of the world-famous writer W. G. Sebald. Since then, the Society has announced a literature prize endowed with EUR 10,000 and is planning a conference, due to take place in the autumn...
by cathycollins | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Stephanie Homer has recently completed her PhD study at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study (UoL). Her thesis examines how literary genres influence the representation of the Kindertransport. Her research interests include...
by cathycollins | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sophie Maddison is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her current research examines interconnectedness in the urban narratives of Émile Zola (1840-1902) and Matilde Serao (1856-1927), combining new materialist and ecocritical...
by cathycollins | Jul 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Translator’s Notes By Kathryn Phillips-Miles Think of a love story, a ghost story and a gothic horror all mixed together and add in plenty of swashbuckling action, and you’ll get the picture! The Yocci Well is set in two parallel periods (principally in the north-west...
