17 June 2020 Quarantine Quartos IX: Visual stagecraft in Shakespeare's Hamlet Is Hamlet a play that is as precise, sophisticated and challenging in its visual stagecraft as in its verbal design, requiring playgoers' eyes to be as engaged and critically reflective as their ears?
15 June 2020 The Know Show: New York, New York: Modern American Poetry Rona Cran discusses various aspects of the poetry of New York City, including friendship, resistance and space, and how New York's poetry has evolved over time in light of social and economic changes in the city.
09 June 2020 The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee Jarad Zimbler edits collection for Cambridge University Press.
04 June 2020 Quarantine Quartos VII: Playhouse cultures of sight Simon Smith talks about Hamlet and stagecraft
02 June 2020 Modernism and Close Reading David James edits collection of essays for Oxford University Press.
02 June 2020 Swift in Print Valerie Rumbold presents a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated print canons in literary history.
01 June 2020 Poetry and Hope in a Time of Crisis A video recording of Professor John Holmes' talk for the Arts and Science Festival.
28 May 2020 Quarantine Quartos VI: Europe's National Poet: Shakespeare and Non-English Patriotism How is it that Shakespeare, regarded as Britain's national property, has been embraced so warmly in other countries, and how come they have some the best monuments and theatres dedicated to him into the bargain?
27 May 2020 The View from My Window | Alexandra Harris Alexandra Harris writes for FaberBooks on the view from her window. "Occasionally there's a delivery and I resist looking out, but then again . . . An impressive consignment of compost at 19, wine at 34."
27 May 2020 Are we living in a Covid-19 dystopia? A video essay from doctoral researcher Liam Knight.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.