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 2015Blabbermouths 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 2014Death, 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 2014The 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 2013-14The 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;
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December 2012: | Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Stage 1)Completed a one-day course on teaching in Higher Education. Topic covered included;
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Publications
November 2015: | Literature & History, 24.2Review of Christopher Breu, Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics |
March 2015: | Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 3.1Review 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. |