Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift
Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift Sarah Dukes, English teacher at The Chase School, Malvern, Worcestershire Sarah Dukes is an English teacher at The Chase School,…
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach Dr Rachel Murray, Literature and the Environment (University of Bristol) Something that makes English studies distinctive is…
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes Dr David Cooper & Professor Kate Pahl, Place Writing (Manchester Metropolitan University) It’s widely recognised how important trees are, not only globally…
AGM 2025
University English Business Meeting Agenda University English Conference and Annual General Meeting 2025 4th April, Online Notes of UE AGM Business Meeting 2025 Programme Outline 10.00 Introduction Gail Marshall…
The Sea, the Sea! – 1
The Sea, the Sea! – 1 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) ‘The river is within us, the sea is all…
#EnglishCreates: Futures 2026
The English Creates campaign kicks off again for 2026 with an emphasis on futures and the way in which English (in all its forms and disciplines) engages with a…
Literary Studies and the Seabed
Literary Studies and the Seabed Dr Laurence Publicover, Associate Professor in Literature and Oceanic Studies (University of Bristol) ‘Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from…
Venturing Out – 3
By Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) My first attempts to bring the environment into my teaching of English turned out to be moves away – into nature reserves miles…
VENTURING OUT – 2
VENTURING OUT – 2 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) This is the RSPB reserve at Ham Wall in Somerset…
VENTURING OUT – 1
VENTURING OUT – 1 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) We were teaching an undergraduate course, ‘Writing the Anthropocene’, and reading…