News from the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies Back to 'School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies' 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 Big Cat Agency announce collaboration with University of Birmingham to explore how audiences respond to advertising DescriptionIn an innovative and visionary collaboration, academics from the University of Birmingham are working with marketing communications agency Big Cat to explore the impact of figurative messages within advertising using state-of-the-art technologies.Date:12/04/2018 Emma West awarded prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionThe Fellowship has been awarded to Dr West for her postdoctoral project 'Revolutionary Red Tape: How State Bureaucracy Shaped British Modernism.'Date:10/04/2018 Modernist Podcast DescriptionSéan Richardson, a PhD student associated with the University of Birmingham through the Midlands Modernist Network has launched the Modernist Podcast. Each monthly episode features academic panelists from across the globe to discuss art, literature and culture in the early twentieth century.Date:29/03/2018 Wicked witches and evil queens: why children's books need more female villains DescriptionIn their Conversation article, Dr Anna Cermakova and Prof Michaela Mahlberg write about gender imbalance in children's literature – with examples from the ChiLit corpus.Date:28/03/2018 CLiC web app listed as a digital literary stylistics resource on the SIG_DLS Blog DescriptionThe CLiC web app has been featured as a resource by the Digital Literary Stylistics Special Interest Group at the University of Basel's Digital Humanities Lab. Check out the guest post introducing CLiC on the accompanying SIG_DLS (Doing Digital Literary Stylistics) Blog.Date:28/03/2018 Looking for a guide to eye-tracking in applied linguistics? Well look no further. DescriptionEye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research, co-authored by Gareth Carrol from the department of English Language and Applied Linguistics has just been released by Cambridge University Press.Date:26/03/2018 'Spring People': an evening of poetry exploring queerness through the spoken word DescriptionEvent report for Monday 19th March.Date:23/03/2018 Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar DescriptionDr Nicholas Groom, Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Florent Perek will be participating in the Colloquium 'Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar' at AAAL 2018, Chicago, Sunday 25 March 2018.Date:21/03/2018 'Fire At Sea' - Professor Richard Wilson DescriptionIn the lead-up to Radical Mischief (20-21 July 2018) the TOP blog is hosting responses to the conference's nine provocations. Professor Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London.Date:19/03/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 849 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next