Nice Work: Birmingham celebrates David Lodge

Join us for a day exploring the fiction and literary criticism of David Lodge, who spent most of his academic career in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

We will celebrate Lodge’s legacy with talks by playwright David Edgar and novelist Jonathan Coe as well as panel discussions and screening of Lost in Adaptation, introduced by producer Roger Shannon.

• 10:00: Welcome
• 10:10-10:45: David Edgar, ‘Author of Parts: David Lodge and his Worlds’
• 10:45: Coffee break
• 11:00-12:00: Panel Discussion: Lodge’s Literary Criticism
• 12:00-1:00: Lunch
• 1:00-1:45: Jonathan Coe, ‘David Lodge and the English Comic Novel’
• 1:45-2:45: Panel Discussion: Lodge’s Fiction
• 2:45: Coffee Break
• 3:00-4:00: Film: Lost in Adaptation—David Lodge in Conversation with Adrian Goldberg from 2005—introduced by producer Roger Shannon