News in English Literature Back to 'English Literature' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed 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 Call for papers: Reading YA Fiction DescriptionThe Reading YA Fiction Symposium will take place on 24 May 2018 at Westmere House, University of Birmingham.Date:23/02/2018 Waterhouse and the Nymphs DescriptionProfessor John Holmes writes for the Birmingham Perspective on the recent controversy surrounding the painting 'Hylas and the Nymphs' at Manchester Art Gallery.Date:23/02/2018 Discovering Literature: Medieval online resource DescriptionThe British Library launches their Discovering Literature: Medieval online resource, which provides free access to major medieval manuscripts from the 5th-15th centuries.Date:06/02/2018 CCLC hosts the Contemporary Studies Network reading group DescriptionOn 24th January the CCLC hosted the Contemporary Studies Network reading group led by Nadhia Grewal of Goldsmith's University.Date:05/02/2018 Call for papers: Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work – 27 June 2018 DescriptionA one-day symposium to be held at the University of Birmingham. Discussion will address the range of Pope's diverse writings and consider possible modes of future readinDate:22/12/2017 Professor Helen Abbott - Baudelaire in Song 1880-1930 DescriptionOxford University Press has published a new book by Professor Helen Abbott, Department of Modern Languages - Baudelaire in Song 1880-1930.Date:12/12/2017 Lecturers in Early Modern Literature secure £5,000 grant DescriptionThe grant will fund the project which is being organised in association with the University's 'Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies' and its 'MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism'.Date:12/12/2017 Displaying 1 to 10 of 141 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next