School of English

Centre for Gender, Sexuality & Writing


Staff:

Jan Montefiore, Sarah James Caroline Rooney, Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Scarlett Thomas, Jennie Batchelor, David Stirrup

The University of Kent, has a long and distinguished tradition of research and teaching in gender studies. The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing  promotes research in this area by research seminars, a biennial lecture, poetry readings, colloquia and conferences –  some of the latter run jointly with  colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Sheffield, where Nicky Hallett now teaches. Along with other staff in the School of English, we offer supervision in a range of gender-related studies from the medieval and early modern period to contemporary writing.

The Centre has organised several organised a highly successful day-colloquiums: on Schooling with papers from Rosemary Auchmuty, Elleke Boehmer and Jan Montefiore (March 2006), on Early Modern Bodies  with papers from Elaine Hobby, Nicky Hallett and Felicity Dunworth (December 2006), and Spinning Tales: Gender and Weaving (papers from Nicky Hallett, Nicola Sharratt, and a group of former ‘Greenham Women’, and will host the first of our Biennial Lectures by Professor Rachel Bowlby: ‘Where Ignorance is Bliss: Folly and Family Secrets’ in May 2008. We are collaborating with gender research in Sheffield in two more forthcoming colloquia: 'Bearded Ladies' (May 2008) and 'Early Modern Body Parts (November 2008).'


We have organized poetry readings by Marilyn Hacker (October 2006) and, with the Centre for Creative Writing, Carole Satyamurti (Feb 2007) and Jackie Kay (Feb 2008). We also run  themed research seminars for staff, postgraduates and postdoctorals : ‘Spinning Tales’ (Spring Term 2007) and ‘Travellers’ Tales’ (2007-8).

Jan Montefiore (Director) is the author of Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004), Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996) and numerous essays on gender and writing, many  collected in Arguments of Heart and Mind (2002).

Courses

Postgraduate: Contemporary Women Poets

(see also FR855 Women Writers and the Family, offered by SECLS

Event in Autumn 2006/07

  • Marilyn HackerA reading by acclaimed poet Marilyn Hacker [more details]

  • EMBodied: A Colloquium on the Early Modern Body [more details]


 

 

Nicky Hallett, Marilyn Hacker and Jan Montefiore

School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX

The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NZ, T: +44 (0)1227 823054

Last Updated: 12/05/2011