22 September 2023
The University of Birmingham hosted the European Second Language Association conference (EuroSLA32) from 30th August to the 2nd of September.
22 September 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio’s tour as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project culminates in a day of Shakespearean celebration at Bullring & Grand Central.
14 September 2023
Andy Street met with the latest students of the Drama and Scripted TV Bootcamp on a visit to University of Birmingham’s Selly Oak campus this week.
11 September 2023
The renowned fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien died fifty years ago on 2 September 1973. Tolkien described Worcestershire as ‘in an indefinable way “home" to me.'
17 August 2023
Stratford Literary Festival are delighted to announce that the University will become the Festival’s Education Partner from September.
16 August 2023
On 4 July, Sasha Piperski and Natalie Finlayson represented the RC21 team at the Twelfth International Corpus Linguistics Conference at Lancaster University
03 August 2023
Soul City Arts and the University of Birmingham’s Culture Forward initiative is thrilled to announce the unveiling of an arts installation entitled 'NOMAD.'
25 July 2023
Students Mary (BA English with Shakespeare Studies) and Vanessa (BA Drama and English) share their experiences of the Stratford Residential study trip.
24 July 2023
Dr Catherine Lester comments on the film adaptation of Watership Down being reclassified from U to PG by the BBFC after 45 years.
24 July 2023
University of Birmingham Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
20 July 2023
Signing Shakespeare project providing support to deliver compulsory teaching on the Bard in accessible way for deaf young people
19 July 2023
The English Language and Linguistics postgraduate summer school took place earlier this month and featured a packed schedule of insightful sessions
10 July 2023
A project commissioned to coincide with the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
05 July 2023
On 28th June, B-Film (the Birmingham Centre for Film and Television Studies) hosted its inaugural Creative Practice Colloquium.
05 July 2023
The university’s Shakespeare Institute has this summer extended its collaboration not just with the Royal Shakespeare Company but with the State.
30 June 2023
Kate Armstrong, an MA student in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, has won a commendation for her dissertation from the British Council.
29 June 2023
Last week, Dr Nathan Waddell hosted a conference to create space for critical thinking on how Lewis’s filibustering was anchored in various material contexts.
29 June 2023
A new multidisciplinary project will expand public understanding and engagement with the work of the celebrated cultural theorist, Professor Stuart Hall.
28 June 2023
We are very proud to announce that Kate Armstrong, one of our distance MA students, has won a commendation for her dissertation from the British Council.
20 June 2023
The University welcomed academics and cultural partners for a two-day interdisciplinary conference last week on Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future.
19 June 2023
In partnership with the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project the Punjabi bus will share South Asian material from Birmingham’s Shakespeare Collection.
14 June 2023
Last week, the University welcomed almost one hundred international scholars onto campus for the ‘Authenticity and Adaptation’ conference.
12 June 2023
During Pride Month, we chatted with Will Jackson (BA Drama and Theatre Arts, 2017)
08 June 2023
Hi, I’m Vanessa and I’m a second year Drama and English student from London.
08 June 2023
Hi, I’m Elvira, a second-year English and Creative Writing student from Lincolnshire.