News - Centre for Modernist Cultures

George Orwell’s Gandhi

Composite image of George Orwell side by side with a photograph of Ghandi
Description:
Professor Douglas Kerr spoke at the Centre for Modernist Cultures in November on Orwell’s response to the life and politics of anti-colonial campaigner Gandhi.
Date:
01 December 2022

The Centre for Modernist Cultures recognises Stuart N. Clarke for decades of work on Virginia Woolf

Novelist and essayist, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Description:
The Centre for Modernist Cultures is a hub for world-leading research on literary and artistic modernism and welcomes an exceptional scholar as Honorary Fellow.
Date:
26 August 2022

Dr Emma West shares her research into the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre on BBC Radio 3

Description:
EDACS academic Dr West was invited to share her research on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking in an episode on Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922.
Date:
15 June 2022

Revolutionary Red Tape at the ‘Hopeful Modernisms’ Conference

Dr Emma West
Description:
Dr Emma West will give a paper based on her postdoctoral research at this year’s British Association for Modernist Studies Conference, to be held in June.
Date:
11 May 2022

Dr Emma West shares her research on the Arts Council on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking

Description:
EDACS academic Dr Emma West was invited to share her research on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking in a programme on the economist John Maynard Keynes.
Date:
22 March 2022

'Reading the Institutional Archive' – a talk at the UEA Modern and Contemporary Seminar

Emma West
Description:
Dr Emma West is giving a talk on Wednesday 17 March at the University of East Anglia's Modern and Contemporary Seminar.
Date:
10 March 2021

A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)

Cover of the Oxford World's Classics 2021 edition of George Orwell's novel a Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
Description:
Centre for Modernist Cultures co-director Nathan Waddell published a new edition of George Orwell's least-familiar novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) in the Oxford World's Classics series.
Date:
12 January 2021
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