News and events

Punctuation Festival 2011

Date: June 28, 29 and 30
Time: 10am – 1 pm each day; you need to come to all three days!
Place: Room 420, Information Commons building

The three day puncfest investigates, explains and celebrates the rules of punctuation. Designed to be accessible, hands-on and memorable, these three sessions are open to all students and staff.

Reservations are essential: book now to ensure you get in.

More information about the festival

Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Symposium
19 March 2011
9:30am -1pm
Professor John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge (2011 Alice Griffin Fellow), Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd, Emeritus Professor Mac Jackson, Associate Professor Ken Larsen, Dr Claudia Marquis, and Professor Michael Neill (all English Department, University of Auckland) and Professor Lynn Tribble (English, University of Otago).

For more information on the Symposium

MEDEMS student awarded George Yule Prize

We are proud to announce that Maria Prozesky has been awarded the George Yule prize for best postgraduate essay for 'Sin and Battle Scars: Jesus as Warrior Knight in Julian of Norwich' at the biannual ANZAMEMS conference, held at Otago in February this year.

This is the second year in a row that the prize has been awarded to an Auckland postgraduate student. Fransisc Szekely received the prize in Tasmania two years ago for 'Unreliable Observers: Early Microscopy and the Problem of Specimen Manipulation'.

MEDEMS course of interest to English students

MEDEMS 700: CREATING THE PAST

Representing Medieval and Early Modern Queens

Semester 1 2011, Thursday 2-4 pm

This inter-disciplinary course explores the representation and self-representation of European queens spanning the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Katherine Parr, Catherine de Medici to Anna of Denmark. Reading political, religious and literary texts, as well as visual art and film, we consider the diverse myths and histories through which medieval and early modern queenship was and is constructed. Authors to be studied range from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth Tudor, Spenser, Shakespeare and Jonson, and topics include: scandalous queens, queens as intercessors, the Salic Law and Female Regency, and the poetics and politics of queenly performance.

Teaching Staff: Dr Sophie Tomlinson (English, Convenor), Dr Lindsay Diggelman (History), Associate-Professor Tracy Adams (French).

Enquiries to Sophie Tomlinson, ext. 87345, s.tomlinson@auckland.ac.nz