Local author Alison Moore: Location and Landscape

In this talk, Man Booker Prize shortlisted writer of fiction, Alison Moore, will be exploring the influence of location and landscape in her novels, including a work in progress.

Tags: alison moore, City of Literature, Collected Words, fiction, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, writing

Lesbian pulp fiction: then and now

The University of Nottingham welcomes Dr Kaye Mitchell, Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester, to discuss the history of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, the 1950’s paperback publishing phenomenon in the USA.

Tags: equality and diversity, fiction, gay and lesbian, Kaye Mitchell, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2016, literature, people and culture, University of Manchester

Bunker mentality: the family fallout shelter in US thought and culture

Tom Bishop, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies presents this lecture. Although now the subject of satirical retro-futuristic depictions in video games and TV shows, the family fallout shelter and the question of ‘to dig or not to dig’ once occupied a central and very serious place in U.S. culture. With the release of Bethesda’s Fallout 4 set to bring these debates back to the forefront of US popular culture the time seems right to re-examine the origins of shelter culture and its depictions in film, literature and on screen.

Tags: fiction, nuclear, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, Tom Bishop, war

Adam Roberts in conversation

Join the last event in the Popular Culture Lecture Series for a discussion between award-winning science fiction author Adam Roberts and Dr Caroline Edwards, Birkbeck University.

Tags: Adam Roberts, author, Birkbeck University, Caroline Edwards, fiction, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, science fiction

Free online course – ‘How to Read a Mind’

Led by Professor Peter Stockwell from the School of English, this MOOC offers an introduction to […]

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Tags: course, fiction, How to Read a Mind, language, literature, MOOC, Peter Stockwell, School of English, study