George Twigg

Conferences/Symposiums

21st July 2015:

University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical humanities Conference

‘If there is a third principle, its name is childhood.  But it dies; or rather, it is murdered’: The Biopolitics of Birth in Salman Rushdie 

9th June 2015:

International Pynchon Week 2015

Raketemenschen, burning out their fuse out there, alone’: Ethnic Identity and the (Zone-)Herero in Gravity’s Rainbow and V.

31st March 2015:

University of Exeter Postgraduate Humanities Conference 2015

Blabbermouths and Chatterboxes: Power and ParrhÄ“sia in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories

28th November 2014:

Marginalised Mainstream 2014

‘If you smell what Foucault is cooking’: Sovereignty, Biopower, Immunization, and Invasion Storylines in Professional Wrestling 

25th July 2014:

University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2014

Death, Panic and the Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Philip Roth’s Nemesis

7th June 2014:

Sixteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference

‘A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye’: Psychoanalysis, the Father, the Son, and the (un?)holy Ghost in Hamlet

28th April 2014:

University of Exeter Postgraduate Humanities Conference 2014

The Deaths of Zia-ul-Haq and ‘Zia-ul-Haq’ in Salman Rushdie’s Shame and Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes

4th December 2013:

University of Exeter Department Research Seminar 2013-14

The Nehru Dynasty and Biopolitical Control: Riots, Sterilization and Slum Clearances in Midnight’s Children

13th September 2013:

Marginalised Mainstream 2013

‘Shut Your Mouth and Know Your Role’: Barthes, Baudrillard, Debord and the Spectacular Narrative of Professional Wrestling

6th August 2013:

International Pynchon Week 2013

‘Sell Out With Me Tonight’: Popular Music, Commercialization and Commodification in Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49, and V.

1st May 2013:

University of Exeter Postgraduate Humanities Conference 2013

‘Nothing like showing people who is boss’: India’s Central and Regional Politics in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh

Graduate School Skills Workshops

March 2013:

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Stage 2)

Completed a series of six workshops on teaching in Higher Education. Topics covered included;

  • Teaching for interactive learning
  • Using technology
  • Teaching methods
  • Planning teaching
  • Assessment principles and challenged
  • Marking and giving feedback
  • Practising teaching through an extended microteaching exercise
  • Evaluating practice and future professional development

December 2012:

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Stage 1)

Completed a one-day course on teaching in Higher Education.  Topic covered included;

  • The relationship between intended learning outcomes and teaching, learning and assessment methods
  • The disputed nature of learning and how learning might be defined in a university setting
  • Teaching methods
  • Technology-enhanced learning
  • Working with small groups

Publications

November 2015:

Literature & History, 24.2

Review of Christopher Breu, Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics

March 2015:

Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 3.1

Review of Andrew Taylor and Simon Malpas, Thomas Pynchon

August 2014:

Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 2.2

‘Sell Out With Me Tonight’: Popular Music, Commercialisation and Commodification in Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49, and V.