Postgraduate study We encourage creative thinking at Masters and Doctoral levels, via different modes of study.
25 January 2021 Revisiting Groundhog Day To mark Groundhog Day on 2 February, Dr James Walters of the Department of Film and Creative Writing revisits the 1993 film, and explores it's resonance within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
21 January 2021 Beyond Outlander: An alternative history of Scottish romantic fiction Dr Amy Burge of the Department of English Literature argues for a reconsideration of Scottish author Annie S. Swan's legacy as a bestselling author of Scottish romance in the early twentieth century.
18 January 2021 Modern Institutions and the Civilizing Mission Dr Emma West's article on the Empire Marketing Board is now available online at Modernism/modernity.
12 January 2021 A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Centre for Modernist Cultures co-director Nathan Waddell published a new edition of George Orwell's least-familiar novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) in the Oxford World's Classics series.
18 December 2020 Why knowing languages matters Professor Dagmar Divjak comments on the British Academy joint statement warning that the pandemic should serve as a wakeup call on the decline of language learning across the English speaking world
17 December 2020 MA Shakespeare and Creativity students are participating in the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival Our MA Shakespeare and Creativity students have produced 9 short films as part of the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival on Monday 21 December.
16 December 2020 Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, has been named as the 2020 winner of Romania's prestigious Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize.
15 December 2020 Stars and scholars worldwide line up to congratulate Shakespeare Institute graduands At an online ceremony from the hall of the Shakespeare Institute on 10 December 10, a selection of the Institute's distinguished honorary fellows paid tribute to the extraordinary resilience of our students
10 December 2020 College of Arts & Law wins 3 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships The College of Arts & Law has been awarded a total of three highly prestigious Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships.
09 December 2020 Is 'A Christmas Carol' more than a ghost story In this post, Mary Hind-Portley comments on Dickens's Christmas Carol with a focus on its religious elements.
25 November 2020 Difficult Paradises | Arts of Place network Recording of the Arts of Place network 'Monday Conversation' that took place on 26 October where Tim Dee, Michael Malay, and Liam Olds joined us to talk about landscape, locality, and what we make of our surroundings
23 November 2020 Comparing notes about the state of Shakespearean scholarship and performance in Russia and in the UK before and during the current pandemic An online conference in collaboration with the Russian Shakespeare Centre.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.