Forthcoming
 

 'The Metamorphoses of Narcissus', in The Body and the Arts, ed. Corinne Saunders, Palgrave.

'Stranger Magic: True Stories and Translated Selves' (The Sebald lecture)  will appear in the Journal of the British Centre for Literary Translation, UEA.

Recent activities

On 14 April 2008 MW will be giving the Presidential Lecture, Stanford

November 8 7.45 pm Sebald Lecture: ' Stranger Magic: True Stories and Translated Selves', Purcell Room, South Bank, London

For A Good Read on Radio 4 in March, with Tim Marlow and Sue McGregor, MW has chosen Adolfo Bioy Casares’s science fiction fable, The Invention of Morel.

24-25 March Conference Cinematicity, to be held at the University of Essex. MW will be speaking on magic carpets among other things:
See http://www.essex.ac.uk/filmstudies/Conference07.htm.

April 29, Stratford Broadside Debate on ‘Shakespeare and the Supernatural’

May 11-13 conference on Magical Thinking at Birkbeck College, London.

May 23: Beatrice Blackwood Lecture in Oxford on 'Dreams of empire: Magic powers, spirit travel, soul theft.'

May 31: MW is appearing to present her book Phantasmagoria at the Hay on Wye Festival : 2.30 pm

May 24-25 2007, MW will take part in the conference Passionate Natures, convened by Robert Macfarlane at CRASSH, Cambridge. See http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/

June 14-16 MW has been invited to take part in the annual Engelsberg Seminar in Sweden

July 22 Getty Museum Lecture on ‘Beasts’ to accompany exhibition of medieval manuscripts

August 16 Edinburgh Festival lecture, 2.30 pm

MW is currently a judge of the John Florio prize for Italian translation and the Arts Council prize for Italian literature in translation.

On 14 April 2008 MW will be giving the Presidential Lecture, Stanford

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