Literature and the Industrial Revolution
Eco-anxiety is connected to feelings of isolation: not only a sense of disconnect from the vanishing natural world but also in terms of time. The future seems less and…
IMAGINING THE NATURAL WORLD
By Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP and, since 2025, the first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Sussex, says why English…
Rewilding and / or Farming
By Hannah Green Environmentalism focussed to start with on wilderness – on protecting areas still untouched by human activity. That was always questionable: describing somewhere as ‘untouched’ is a…
Kite-flying in the Anthropocene
By Michael Malay Michael Malay’s Late Light won the Wainwright Prize in 2024. Here, Michael introduces this book ‘about falling in love with vanishing things’: Instagram And…
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…