News in English Literature Riddling in Lockdown DescriptionDr Megan Cavell reflects on a creative project she took part in over lockdown, working with colleagues to bring to life a 10th Century poetic riddle to life in the digital space.Date:Wednesday 16 September 2020 Postgraduates sought for Ad Alta: The Birmingham Journal of Literature DescriptionThe journal is looking for postgraduates to fill the following the roles and create Volume XII: General Editors, Book Review Editors, Creative Editors, Notes Editors, and a Publicity and Proofs Editor.Date:Monday 7 September 2020 National Read a Book day 2020: Muslim women's popular fiction DescriptionThe English Department's Dr Amy Burge writes about the surge in popular and genre fiction works being written by Muslim women over the last decade.Date:Friday 28 August 2020 The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus DescriptionLyndsey Stonebridge writes for Psyche on the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina (1971)Date:Tuesday 4 August 2020 School of English, Drama and Creative Studies wins prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionDr Jack Quin will be joining the Department of English Literature for 3 years this October to research 'Dual Forms: Modernist poetry and the poetics of sculpture (1880-1940).'Date:Monday 13 July 2020 Ad Alta: The Birmingham Journal of Literature, Volume XI: Communities DescriptionLatest volume of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, edited by English Literature doctoral researchers Liam Knight and Jayde Martin.Date:Monday 29 June 2020 Learning from home DescriptionWithin the College of Arts and Law, staff and students have adapted to a new way of working, with teaching and studying taking place at home through a variety of virtual platforms.Date:Friday 19 June 2020 Quarantine Quartos IX: Visual stagecraft in Shakespeare's Hamlet DescriptionIs 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?Date:Wednesday 17 June 2020 Displaying 1 to 8 of 239 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next