News in English Literature University of Birmingham makes splash at Hay DescriptionLiterature festival invites academics to speak on the art of political rhetoric, storytelling, 19th century literature and wetland archaeology.Date:Wednesday 5 June 2019 Study shows US Founding Father may have contributed to a forgotten shipwreck narrative DescriptionNew research from the University of Birmingham suggests Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, could have contributed to a forgotten shipwreck narrative.Date:Thursday 30 May 2019 Wounded Sentimentalism: The Literature of Uplift DescriptionProfessor David James delivered his inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham.Date:Tuesday 21 May 2019 Pioneering Victorian alumna's grave restored and unveiled in Birmingham DescriptionReport from the rededication ceremony.Date:Tuesday 14 May 2019 Listening to Modernism DescriptionReport and audio recording of Professor Anna Snaith's Centre for Modernist Cultures annual lecture.Date:Wednesday 8 May 2019 Exceptional, essential and highly original DescriptionSimon Smith's 'Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625' wins the 2018 University English Book Prize.Date:Monday 29 April 2019 Modernist Profiles: Emma West DescriptionDr Emma West is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English LiteratureDate:Monday 1 April 2019 Shakespeare Institute's Dr Chris Laoutaris guests on Dan Snow's podcast DescriptionChris talked to the TV Historian about Shakespeare and LoveDate:Friday 29 March 2019 Displaying 1 to 8 of 190 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next