University English AGM 2024

FRIDAY

English’s Collaborative Relationships Convenor: Delia da Sousa Correa (Open University)

• Zoe Hope Bulaitis (Birmingham) ‘Public English and Liberal Arts’
• Ralph Pite (Bristol) ‘English and the Environment: Natural History’
• Alexandra Campbell (Glasgow) ‘Literature and the Infrastructure Humanities’

English and Employability. Convenor: Gail Marshall (Reading)

• Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia Ruskin) ‘Embedding Employability in the Curriculum’
• Jennifer Richards (Cambridge and EA, standing in for Cathy Shrank (Sheffield)) ‘What are my skills? What students studying English, from GCSE to PhD, say’
• Andrea Macrae (Oxford Brookes) ‘Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and English’
• Richard Steadman-Jones (Sheffield) ‘Wagging the dog? How do graduate attributes appear in BA courses in English?’

 

Keynote Lecture. Introduced by Simon Kövesi (Glasgow)

Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway), ‘Continuities of Conflict in English: Epistemology, Ethics, Pedagogy’

Robert Eaglestone Keynote Abstract

 

Drinks Reception and UE Book Prize Presentation: Presented by Elisabeth Jay (Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes)

SATURDAY

#EnglishCreates Campaign. Convenor: Andrew McRae (Exeter) leader of the campaign working group

Research Opportunities and Challenges in post-92 English. Convenor Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes)

• Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City) ‘Impact in post-92 English: a Case Study from Linguistics’
• Dinah Roe (Oxford Brookes) ‘Who Cares?: New Universities And Poetry’
• Samantha Walton (Bath Spa) ‘English and Undisciplined Research in the Modern University’

University English Business Meeting Agenda

1. Minutes of most recent General Meeting (December 2023)
2. Chair’s Annual Report (Gail Marshall)
3. Treasurer’s Report (Andrew Kehoe)
4. ESSE Report (Anne Schwann)
5. Website Update (Eleanor Beal)
6. Departments Currently Facing Challenges (Daniel Lea)
7. AOB