Discovery Day Lecture
Professor Andrew Roberts will be giving a lecture asking "Is Digital Poetry really Poetry?" as part of the Discovery Day to be held on Friday 14th January 2011.
Digital poetry is one of the newest and most innovative forms of 21st-century literature. Viewed on screen and usually available on the web, these 'poems' typically combine moving and changing words with images and sound; they are dynamic, often interactive, and at their best both striking and powerful. Professor Roberts will be asking is it really poetry, and how do we respond imaginatively to such works?
The annual Discovery Days began in 2004, and since that time they have brought the work of 147 new professors at the University of Dundee to the attention of a wide non-specialist audience, including members of the public, schools and academic & support staff from across the University. Professor Andrew Roberts has been appointed to a Chair of Modern Literature within the School of Humanities.
Professor Roberts arrived in Dundee in 1993 having been Quain Student at University College London, where he completed his PhD and later worked as lecturer in English. He is currently Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project, "Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" leading a team of researchers in literature, psychology and fine art from the Universities of Dundee and Kent. His research interests are in the areas of modernist literature, contemporary British poetry, digital poetry, literature and science, and literature and visual culture. Further information about Professor Roberts is available on his staff profile page.
Free tickets are available from www.dundee.ac.uk/tickets/ or from the Tower Building and Dalhousie Building Receptions.
The full Discovery Day programme is available at www.dundee.ac.uk/revealingresearch/newsandevents/dd11/.
Posted: 6 January 2011
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