News in English Literature Back to 'English Literature' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed Nathan Waddell awarded research fellowship DescriptionHarry Ransom Center funding will enable Nathan to consult Wyndham Lewis archivesDate:25/05/2018 Dr Chris Laoutaris of the Shakespeare Institute shortlisted for Outstanding Teaching Award DescriptionThe awards were instituted by Birmingham's Guild of Students to give students an opportunity to nominate "a truly inspiring teacher who can bring a subject to life".Date:18/05/2018 Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE DescriptionAlexandra Harris writes for the exhibition catalogue.Date:15/05/2018 Simon Smith's latest book shortlisted for Shakespeare's Globe Book Award DescriptionDr Smith's book 'Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625' (Cambridge University Press) is one of four books on the shortlist.Date:11/05/2018 On Not Knowing DescriptionReport and audio recording of Professor Rebecca L Walkowitz's Centre for Modernist Cultures annual lecture.Date:30/04/2018 New sources prove a Frenchman was one of the translators of the King James Bible DescriptionThe King James Bible, first published in 1611, has been found to have been translated by a Frenchman – according to three sources newly discovered by a University of Birmingham researcher. New research has shed light on the translators who worked on the first edition, with King James commissioning a renowned French scholar, Isaac Casaubon, who was visiting London at the time, to work on the final revision of the translation.Date:30/04/2018 John Fagg at the Wilmerding Symposium on American Art DescriptionRecording of lecture - "You put your self in his place": George Bellows and the Limits of Bodily Knowledge - at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC in April 2018.Date:27/04/2018 Erin Sullivan made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association DescriptionThe fellowship recognizes her contributions to distance learning at the Shakespeare Institute and to her commitment to student-focused pedagogy in both the traditional, on-site classroom and the online one.Date:16/04/2018 'Spring People': an evening of poetry exploring queerness through the spoken word DescriptionEvent report for Monday 19th March.Date:23/03/2018 #YouToo, Helena?: All's Well That Ends Well and Sexual Consent DescriptionThere are many questions inspired by Shakespeare's problem play of dubious decision-making, All's Well That End's Well, but foremost among them must be, "What the hell, Helena?". Kelsey Ridge explores Helena's darker, aggressive side to her relationship with Bertram.Date:27/02/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 148 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next