News from the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies Professor Jeanette Littlemore awarded prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences DescriptionProfessor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jeanette Littlemore, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.Date:Wednesday 24 February 2021 Report on Queer New York DescriptionWatch a recording of the workshop which explored the queerness, and queering, of New York, offering a range of ways of thinking about queer preservation as enacted through writing and art-making.Date:Monday 8 February 2021 King Charles II and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio DescriptionRecent PHd Student Dr José Pérez Díez will introduce this landmark book which features 34 plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.Date:Thursday 4 February 2021 World's Stage - a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare DescriptionThe Everything to Everybody project, led by Professor Ewan Fernie of The Shakespeare Institute, have launched "World's Stage" a series of seven new short films.Date:Thursday 4 February 2021 Kenneth Koch Uncorked DescriptionCarcanet Press blogpost by PhD student and poet Jeremy Over.Date:Tuesday 2 February 2021 Revisiting Groundhog Day DescriptionTo 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.Date:Monday 25 January 2021 Beyond Outlander: An alternative history of Scottish romantic fiction DescriptionDr 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.Date:Thursday 21 January 2021 A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) DescriptionCentre 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.Date:Tuesday 12 January 2021 Displaying 1 to 8 of 990 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next