This one-day event brings together literary scholars and researchers from UCL's Department of English Language and Literature to discuss the rich and fluctuating relationship between literature and the city. Topics will include Gissing's working-class London, the Los Angeles police novel, Charles Olson’s poetic rendition of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the allegorical city in Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, and public toilets and fire hydrants in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. There will be ample time for questions, comments, wit, and discussion, and drinks afterwards. Come join us!

Confirmed speakers: Professor Gregory Dart, Dr Matthew Beaumont, Dr Eliza Cubitt, Dr Elsa Court, Emily Klimova, Alex Pavey, Dai George