Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop TT1: Process, Collaboration - and NOT Writing a Book

Process, Collaboration - and NOT Writing a Book

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12 May 10:30
History of the Book Room, St Cross Building (English Faculty)

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Friday 12 May, 10.30am - 12.30pm (UK time)

History of the Book Room, St Cross Building (English Faculty), Manor Road, OX1 3UL 

Please note that this event is NOT at Wolfson College.

 

Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr will lead the first Laura Marcus Life-Writing workshop of this term. She will be joined by Tzen Sam (doctoral candidate in English, and Research Assistant on the Laura Kieler project) and Dr Lauren Cullen (co-creator of the Fanny Shepherd web site). They will be discussing two in-progress life-writing projects that both explore female writers and employ modes that are alternative to the book-form biographies we are used to discussing: one is a play and one is a web site.

The focus for this workshop will be on how NOT writing a book-biography in the first instance is providing a completely different perspective and purchase on biographical subjects. It will emphasize process and collaboration as key to gaining insight and fresh perspectives on life-writing.

This workshop will be chaired by Professor Elleke Boehmer and Dr Kate Kennedy.

You can find out more about the projects here:

  1. A Knowledge-Exchange Fellowship collaboration with Breach Theatre to develop a new play about Laura Kieler, who was the real-life model for Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879).
  2. 'Pulling up Stakes' about Professor Shepherd-Barr's great-grandmother, Fanny Shepherd (1866-1937), which is on the university platform Cabinet.

Register here: https://forms.gle/zwZwbps8a49kzNHV8

Please Note: Workshop places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis with priority given to members of the English Faculty. This event is only open to members of Oxford University.

Tea/coffee and cake will be served during the workshop.

This event will take place in the St Cross building on Manor Road (more information). Attendees are advised to wear face coverings while indoors and to use an LFT prior to the event.

Please address any queries to our events administrator.

The second Laura Marcus workshop of Trinity Term will take place on Friday 2 June 2023 at 10:30-12:30pm.