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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Best Essay in English Studies competition (Deadline extended to 15 April 2026)
DESCRIPTION:To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses \n  \nThe Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2026 is now open. The Department looks forward to acknowledging student achievement by awarding a prize for the best essay in each year of the undergraduate degree\, and in each of our three subject areas: Linguistics\, Literary Studies\, and Translation (for Translation this may be a translated passage). Please submit your most original\, insightful\, and/or best-researched work. \n  \nThe competition is open to all students enrolled in UM English Department courses. Each student may submit one piece of work\, which should be an academic assignment in one of the Department’s courses in the current academic year (2025–26). If the work has already been graded it must have received a mark of at least 88 to qualify\, and please note that creative work and group work is not eligible for these prizes. \n  \nEssays will be judged by the relevant professors in each area of study. Prizes will be presented at an Award Day on Wednesday 29 April 2026\, although if no work of a sufficiently high standard is submitted for a subject’s year group\, then that prize will not be awarded. \n  \nEssays should be submitted to deng.bestessay@um.edu.mo. Please give your name\, student number\, and year of study (year 1/2/3/4) on the first page of the essay or translation. The deadline for submission is now extended to 5pm on Wednesday 15 April.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-best-essay-in-english-studies-competition-deadline-8-april-2026/
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: 'Christopher Okigbo and the Legacies of Modernism in Post-Colonial Africa'
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nNigerian poet Christopher Okigbo\, known for his early attachment to aestheticism and modernist poetics and for his apparent late turn to more socially committed poetry\, occupies a unique place in the debates about aesthetics and politics in postcolonial Africa. Contrary to frequent attempts to portray Okigbo’s development in terms of conversion from an aesthete into a political poet\, I demonstrate that even at his most political Okigbo continued to rely on poetic techniques derived from T.S. Eliot and on the doctrine of aesthetic autonomy in order to safeguard his work from the encroachments of Afrocentrism and cultural nationalism. \n  \nBiography: \nAleksandar Stević is assistant professor of English at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Primarily a historian and theorist of the novel\, he is the author of Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning (University of Virginia Press\, 2020) and the editor of several volumes\, including a forthcoming special issue of Genre on Aestheticism Now. His essays have appeared in such venues as New Literary History\, Victorian Literature and Culture\, Journal of Modern Literature\, Comparative Literature Studies\, and ELH. He is also the Serbian translator of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and has recently completed a book on the afterlives of aestheticism in twentieth-century literature.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-guest-lecture-christopher-okigbo-and-the-legacies-of-modernism-in-post-colonial-africa/
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "A Genre Beyond Theory: Notes on the History of the Fantastic"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis lecture will investigate the historical development and conceptual instability of the fantastic in literary studies\, particularly within Anglophone tradition. Circumventing the definitional disputes that have long polarized criticism\, the lecture will foreground a historical approach. It will show that a distinct\, self-aware literary genre known as the fantastic\, or rather le fantastique\, did in fact emerge in France in the 1830s\, catalyzed by the reception of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s works. Through historiographic reconstruction\, the lecture will reveal how the fantastic was shaped by a coherent oversimplification of Hoffmann’s poetics\, as well as by market forces\, and national intellectual traditions. French critics and writers such as J.-J. Ampère\, P. Duvergier de Hauranne\, T. Gautier\, and Ch.-Au. de Sainte-Beuve codified this genre around a distinctive tension between the real and the extraordinary—following a binary structure that would later inform many twentieth-century academic theories. While acknowledging later transformations and hybridizations\, I will assert that understanding the historical specificity of the fantastic is vital for clarifying its place within non-realistic literature\, and for resisting the conceptual flattening of its identity in critical discourse. In particular\, I will critique the problematic absence—or superficial treatment—of the fantastic in contemporary scholarship on the gothic and the weird\, arguing that a transgeneric approach would prove more fruitful when investigating nineteenth-century non-realistic and/or supernatural literature. \n  \nBiography: \nEzio Puglia  is currently Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Zhengzhou University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna in 2012\, with a dissertation on the image of things in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fantastic fiction\, encompassing German\, French\, American\, and Italian literature. In 2016\, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Luxembourg (AFR – Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Grant)\, and in 2018\, he served as Associate Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America\, Columbia University\, where he conducted research on the earliest specimens of the written fairy tale\, focusing on the Renaissance and Baroque narratives of G. F. Straparola and G. B. Basile.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-guest-lecture-a-genre-beyond-theory-notes-on-the-history-of-the-fantastic/
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Annual Prize-Giving Ceremony 2025/2026
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URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-prize-giving-ceremony/
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