The next instalment of the English Seminar will feature Prof. Stella Borg Barthet of the University of Malta, with a paper called:
Writers of Charles Dickens: The Novelist and His Biographers
The English Seminar is organised by the Department of English and is open to the general public.
The seminar will take place on Monday 7 November at 18:15, Gateway Building Hall E.
Abstract
The focus of this paper is the literary biography, looking particularly at the modes of writing employed by Charles Dickens’s biographers. John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens, which appeared from 1872 to 1874, and Peter Ackroyd’s Dickens, which was published in 1990, provide a platform for the discussion of some of the modes of biography, and the way these modes emerge as life writing, as criticism, as drama and as fiction.
Bio-note
Stella Borg Barthet is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Malta, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in 18th and 19th century English and American fiction. She organized the conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in 2005 and was appointed adjudicator for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize the following year. She edited Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures and A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth, both published by Rodopi in 2009. Prof Borg Barthet has published many papers and book chapters on African and Australian writing. Her current research interests include literature from the southern littoral of the Mediterranean.