Literature, God and Place @ The Priory

This annual seminar is hosted by english.literature@lancaster (c/o School of Arts, University of Lancaster) and seeks to explore theology as a field of thinking, believing, and imagining that is open to every possibility, even the possibility of literature.

It will be held in the ancient Military Chapel at Lancaster Priory and will feature papers from Dr Emma Nuding & Professor Kevin Mills

Dr Nuding will speak on "Deepening the hermit's 'holy rule': St Guthlac of Crowland (d. 714) and David Jones's The Anathemata (1952)"

Professor Mills will speak on "The Alchemist in the Doorway: Conan Doyle, Correspondences and Transmutations".

Emma Nuding is Teaching Fellow in Medieval Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her first book, Writing St Guthlac of Crowland, Medieval to Modern, is in press with Boydell and Brewer and charts a Fenland hermits reception trajectory from the eighth century to the twenty-first, covering Anglo-Latin, Old English and Middle English texts and utilising place-based approaches. She has published in Medieval Ecocriticisms (2023), The John Clare Society Journal (2022) and Studies in Medievalism (2025), and her co-authored pedagogical work is forthcoming in Speculum (2026).

Kevin Mills is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales. He has published three monographs, numerous essays on literary topics, and three collections of poetry.

The seminar is free and ALL are welcome.

There will be time for Q and A

Chair: Professor John Schad