English Literature Research Seminar Series: Timothy Baker In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) Title - The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk Chair - Penny Fielding About the speaker Timothy Baker has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2009, he joined the University of Aberdeen. He specialises in Scottish and contemporary literature, and he is currently working on a study on the relation between animals, language, and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction. Other research and teaching interests include genre and space in twentieth-century women's fiction, climate change and environmental crisis, and contemporary posthuman, queer, and feminist theories. He is the author of "George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community" (2009), "Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition" (2014), and "Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction" (2019). Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature? We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Working with colleagues in LLC and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature with us Dec 10 2021 16.00 - 17.00 English Literature Research Seminar Series: Timothy Baker Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) entitled “The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk”. Online on Zoom
English Literature Research Seminar Series: Timothy Baker In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) Title - The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk Chair - Penny Fielding About the speaker Timothy Baker has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2009, he joined the University of Aberdeen. He specialises in Scottish and contemporary literature, and he is currently working on a study on the relation between animals, language, and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction. Other research and teaching interests include genre and space in twentieth-century women's fiction, climate change and environmental crisis, and contemporary posthuman, queer, and feminist theories. He is the author of "George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community" (2009), "Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition" (2014), and "Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction" (2019). Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature? We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Working with colleagues in LLC and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about PhD study in English Literature with us Dec 10 2021 16.00 - 17.00 English Literature Research Seminar Series: Timothy Baker Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) entitled “The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk”. Online on Zoom
Dec 10 2021 16.00 - 17.00 English Literature Research Seminar Series: Timothy Baker Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) entitled “The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk”.
