Noirwich 2026: Catriona Ward – Drama Studio, UEA

Wednesday 9 September, 6pm at the Drama Studio, UEA

Catriona Ward will be delivering this year’s Noirwich Lecture, “Reading with the Body”. From Agatha Christie’s body in the library to Poe’s tell-tale heart and the bodiless entities of Hill House, crime, the gothic and the literature of the uncanny are all intensely preoccupied with our corporeal selves – with flesh, blood and bone – and with their absence. In this talk Ward will explore the various bodies that litter these pages, as well as how our own physical responses invite us into these books, making the reader an intrinsic part of the function of the text.