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Dr Nick Bentley gives keynote talk
Salman Rushdie continues to be one of the most important controversial of writers and last Saturday saw the 'Rushdie in the 21st Century' conference at Senate House for the Institute of English Studies. The conference was co-organised by Marianne Corrigan, who is currently completing her PhD thesis on Rushdie at Keele, and Daniel O'Gorman from Royal Holloway.
Dr Nick Bentley, English, RI Humanities, pictured, gave a keynote talk at the conference on the Transatlantic in Rushdie's fiction concentrating on representations of cities in his novels Fury, Shame and The Satanic Verses. The day brought together a number of leading researchers and scholars working on Rushdie including Anshuman Mondal (Brunel), Stephen Morton (Southampton) and Andrew Teverson (Kingston). The Conference was funded jointly by the Humanities RI at Keele and Royal Holloway.
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