News in English Literature Graduate stories: Francesca Root DescriptionFrancesca graduated with a Class I with Honours BA Liberal Arts and Sciences (English Literature Major) in July 2017.Date:Tuesday 4 September 2018 Midlands universities partnership will train the next generation of arts and humanities researchers DescriptionEight leading universities in the Midlands are joining together to train the next generation of highly-skilled arts and humanities researchers, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).Date:Wednesday 15 August 2018 Pregnancy loss: how to find the right words to talk about it DescriptionJeannette Littlemore, Kate Rumbold and Sarah Turner write for The Conversation.Date:Wednesday 15 August 2018 Simon Smith's latest book wins Shakespeare's Globe Book Award DescriptionDr Smith's book 'Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625', published by Cambridge University Press.Date:Tuesday 31 July 2018 Nathan Waddell speaks about Wyndham Lewis at the Royal Academy of Arts DescriptionOn Friday 13 July 2018, Dr Nathan Waddell spoke at the Royal Academy of Arts about Wyndham Lewis's rejected 1938 portrait of TS Eliot. Part publicity stunt, part sincere tribute, the portrait tells us as much about Eliot's significance as about Lewis's impishness.Date:Friday 27 July 2018 Scholars discuss new ways of reading modernist magazines DescriptionOn Thursday 14 June, an interdisciplinary group of postgraduate and early-career academics explored new ways of reading modern(ist) magazines. Working with periodicals from the Cadbury Research Library, they discussed BLAST, Form, Coterie, and Rhythm, among others.Date:Wednesday 25 July 2018 Modernist Scholar Celebrates Dalloway Day 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery and British Library DescriptionOn 20 June 2018, Professor Alexandra Harris led a tour at the National Portrait Gallery of selected paintings and photographs of and by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and others associated with the Bloomsbury Group and the modernist movement.Date:Thursday 19 July 2018 Renowned US Poet performing this Friday in Birmingham DescriptionAlice Notley to give a performance at the Birmingham and Midland Institute.Date:Tuesday 3 July 2018 Displaying 1 to 8 of 157 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next