Visiting Speaker: Prof. Francis O'Gorman

We are delighted to announce that the first seminar of 2009 will see Prof. Francis O'Gorman speak on ‘Victorian Literature and the Life of the Dead.’ The seminar will take place at 5.15 pm on Wednesday January 14th in room 0.09 Aras anPhirasaigh.

Our distinguished guest speaker is Head of the School of English at the University of Leeds. He is currently writing a book on the subject of this lecture, while also completing the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture, editing The Victorians and the Near East, and writing essays for the Cambridge History of the English Novel. Prof. O'Gorman is an advisory editor for the forthcoming Oxford Companion to English Literature. He is a Companion of the Guild of St George and a Visiting Professor at the Ruskin Centre of the University of Lancaster. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture and Victorian Review.

Prof. O'Gorman is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Victorian Literature and Finance (Oxford University Press, 2007), Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, 2004) and Ruskin and Gender (Palgrave, 2002).