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Please join us for Professor Andrew Tate's inaugural lecture, followed by drinks and refreshments.

Why is popular culture so fascinated by the story of Lazarus? This lecture will explore the after lives of an uncanny narrative of resurrection and return, grief and hope, as retold in art, literature and music, with a particular focus on the work of David Bowie and Oscar Wilde.

Please join us for Professor Andrew Tate's inaugural lecture, followed by drinks and refreshments.

Andrew Tate is Professor in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics at Lancaster University. He has two primary historical interests: nineteenth-century writing and its relationship with theological debates and contemporary fiction in relation to the sacred. Recent published work in this field includes journal articles on Ruskin and the Psalms and a book chapter on Decadence and the Bible. His publications include Douglas Coupland (Manchester University Press, 2007), Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (Continuum, 2008),The New Atheist Novel (co-authored with Arthur Bradley, Continuum, 2010) and Apocalyptic Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2017). He edited a special double issue of The Year Book of English Studies on religion and literature (2009) and co-edited Literature and the Bible: a Reader (Routledge, 2013).