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SUMMARY:Online Event: The Elizabeth Bowen Birthday Lecture: “Treading on Bowen’s grave – Writing The Last Day at Bowen’s Court”
DESCRIPTION:The Elizabeth Bowen Birthday Lecture – ‘Treading on Bowen’s grave – Writing The Last Day at Bowen’s Court’ by Dr Eibhear Walshe (University College\, Cork).   \nIntroduced by the Elizabeth Bowen Society co-chairs\, Dr Nicola Darwood (University of Bedfordshire) and Dr Nick Turner (Open University).   \nIn this birthday lecture\, Eibhear Walshe discusses his experience of fictionalising the life of Elizabeth Bowen in his 2020 novel\, The Last Day at Bowen’s Court\, and looks at the way his creative process was helped by his research on Bowen and Ireland and the letters between Bowen and Charles Ritchie. The ways in which fiction can transcend the limits of biography is at the centre of his interest. \nAll are welcome to this is an online event and tickets are available at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/elizabethbowensociety/1263372
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-the-elizabeth-bowen-birthday-lecture-treading-on-bowens-grave-writing-the-last-day-at-bowens-court/
LOCATION:University of Bedfordshire Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Reading Novels in the Covid-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat do novels mean at a time of crisis and which novels did readers turn to in this one? Was it old favourites or books that helped them to make sense of the present predicament?  \nReading Novels During the Covid Pandemic reports on a major ethnographic study of fiction readers in the UK and Denmark\, conducted during the pandemic in 2020-21. It provides a snapshot of an extraordinary moment in cultural and reading history.  \nThe British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) is delighted to host two of the three authors\, Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth) and Christina Lupton (University of Warwick\, University of Copenhagen). Ben and Christina will introduce the research project and the reading practices it uncovered\, reflect on the use of empirical research methods in contemporary literary studies and talk about the afterlives of the book in their current research. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. \n​This is an online event for English Creates and BACLS members\, colleagues and friends are all welcome. Please register your attendance using the link below to receive login details. 
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-bacls-seminar-reading-novels-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:The British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS)
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Digital Futures: Towards a New Definition of English Studies
DESCRIPTION:Digital Futures: Towards a New Definition of English Studies \nPlease join us for a discussion of how English might best embrace a digital future with Prof Clare Hutton (Loughborough) and Dr. Alistair Brown (Durham) . \nSpeakers \n\nAlistair Brown is Assistant Professor (Teaching) in Digital Humanities and Modern Literature\, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research and scholarship interests cover the digital humanities\, digital pedagogy and learning technology\, and the creative industries. He specialises in video games and literature and\, currently\, in the use of VR and 360 video in teaching and learning English. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nClare Hutton is Professor of Literature and Book History. Her research is on Irish Literature\, especially early twentieth century.  She has a particular interest in book history\, including questions about how literary texts get written; how\, where\, when and why they are read; and how\, when and by whom they are published. Her research has been funded by the AHRC\, the Leverhulme Trust\, and the British Academy. \n  \n  \n  \nThis is an online event for English Creates Campaign. All are Welcome! \nPlease register here \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-digital-futures-towards-a-new-definition-of-english-studies/
LOCATION:Loughborough and Durham Universities Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Loving Words: How to Analyse A Love Poem
DESCRIPTION:Using the AQA poetry anthology’s ‘Pre-1900 Love Poems’ selection as its starting point\, this online workshop will explore the many different ways poets past and present have written about love\, romance\, sex and desire. It will address common tropes and sub-genres in this branch of writing\, and introduce students to a range of critical approaches relevant to the analysis of love poetry. \n  \nDr Carl Thompson\, Reader in Romantic Literature \nDr Amy Morgan\, Lecturer in Medieval Literature \nDr Lucy Ella Rose\, Lecturer in Victorian Literature \n  \nDr Carl Thompson is Reader in Romanticism at the University of Surrey. His research interests cover literature of the Romantic period (late 18th-early19th century) and travel writing of all periods (with particular emphasis in recent years on travel writing by women). \nDanielle Dove is a Surrey Future Fellow and Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature\, with a specific emphasis on dress\, fashion\, material culture and sustainability. Her first book\, Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction: Materiality\, Agency\, and Narrative\, is out now with Bloomsbury Academic. \nDr Lucy Ella Rose is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Surrey University\, focusing on literature\, art\, culture and feminism (their connections and intersections). She has a special interest in late-Victorian creative partnerships\, focusing on neglected female figures. \n  \nThis live digital talk is part of the UK-wide campaign week of University English\, called #English Creates.  Tickets are free but please register your attendance here or in the Teams link below to receive details and link.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-loving-words-how-to-analyse-a-love-poem/
LOCATION:University of Surrey Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Careers Beyond English
DESCRIPTION:The Head of the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow Professor Simon Kövesi chairs a panel of UofG alumni in English: 3 graduates from Creative Writing\, Scottish Literature and Language and English Literature. The panel will discuss their lives after graduation\, will share the stories of their careers\, and will reflect back on what the study of English did for them.  \n  \nThis live digital talk is part of the UK-wide campaign week of University English\, called #English Creates.  The talk will begin at 15.30pm and can be accessed via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8fi8RKcfqg
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/careers-beyond-english/
LOCATION:University of Glasgow Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: The Digital Research University
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Research University.\n\nPlease join us for a lecture by Prof Dave Berry (University of Sussex) on how AI and allied digital methods of analysis and research might re-shape University futures.\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\nDave Berry is Professor of Digital Humanities\, exploring how computation is being incorporated into arts and humanities and social science practice. His research examines the way in which artificial intelligence and machine-learning are articulated in relation to arts and humanities knowledges – particularly notions of augmentating\, automating and informating. More particularly\, he is interested in how knowledge\, organisation and computation are formed into new constellations of power\n\nThis is an online event for the English Creates Campaign. Please join at 3pm:  All Welcome!
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-ai-and-the-digital-research-university/
LOCATION:University of Sussex Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Poetry Learn-Along with Poetry By Heart (The English Association)
DESCRIPTION:A shared experience of learning and speaking a poem \nThis event is for anyone who is intrigued by the idea that poetry is memorable speech\, or wants to explore how speaking a poem is different to reading it\, or thinks they have a terrible memory and could never learn a line. By the end of the session you’ll be able to join in a shared performance of a poem we’ve learned together\, and you’ll have a resource to take away and try for yourself. \nDr Julie Blake\, FEA\, FRSL(Hon)\, co-directs Poetry By Heart\, the national poetry speaking competition for schools. She researches and writes about the history of poetry for children\, creates digital and print anthologies of poems for children and young people\, teaches poetry pedagogy and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry in the school English curriculum. \nPoetry by Heart is a national poetry speaking competition for schools and colleges in England. It’s also a website for teaching and learning about poetry – by heart and out loud\, and with plenty of choice for young people to explore poems and find the ones they love. \nThis online event is organised by the English Association as part of the #EnglishCreates Week. Tickets are free but please register your attendance in the eventbrite link below to receive details and link. \n 
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/ea-event-poetry-learn-along-with-poetry-by-heart/
LOCATION:The English Association
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Victorian Rights: Victorian Wrongs
DESCRIPTION:We tend to think of the Victorian period in terms of its many ‘wrongs’ – sexual repression\, harsh labour conditions\, poverty\, and empire.  Yet the Victorian period was also a time of increasing economic\, political and social ‘rights’. \nIn a series of podcasts exploring the Chartists\, the Suffragettes\, Victorian feminism and environmentalism\, second-year students at the University of Manchester consider the key role played by literature in the struggles for democratic\, economic\, and social rights in Victorian Britain. \nYou can listen to the podcasts here: Victorian Rights: Victorian Wrongs \nThis on-line event for the English Creates Campaign is your chance to meet some of the students (and staff) involved in making these podcasts\, to talk to them about the issues raised as well as their experiences of studying English Literature at university. \nPlease join the event at 14.30pm.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/victorian-rights-victorian-wrongs/
LOCATION:University of Manchester Online
CATEGORIES:Online,Recorded Event
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SUMMARY:Online Event: #EnglishCreates Careers: Where can a degree in English take you?
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English as part of the University English #EnglishCreates Campaign. \nJoin Professor of English Kate McLoughlin and Careers Advisor Julia Sadler in conversation with English Faculty alumni Patience Agbabi\, Dhruti Shah and Flo Graham-Dixon. They will reflect on their career journeys since graduating with an English degree and speak to their rich and varied professional experiences. Moderated by Oxford’s English Outreach Coordinator\, Kimberly Glassman. \nRegister on the University of Oxford’s English Faculty website. All welcome! \nSpeaker biographies \nPatience Agbabi is a poet much celebrated for paying equal homage to literature and performance.  Her work moves fluidly and nimbly between cultures\, dialects\, voices; between page and stage.  After reading English at Pembroke College\, Oxford\, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Sussex University. Agbabi has lectured in Creative Writing at Greenwich\, Cardiff and Kent Universities and her poems and writing are studied in schools and universities. In 2004 she was named as one of the Poetry Society’s ‘Next Generation’ poets. Her collection\, Telling Tales (Canongate\, 2014) was shortlisted for The Poetry Society’s Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In the last four years\, Patience has turned her talents to writing a tetralogy\, The Leap Cycle\, for children aged 8 to ∞. The debut novel\, The Infinite won the Wales Book of the Year: Children & Young People Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Internationally\, she has performed in the US\, Southern Africa and Europe widely\, and she had a short residency at Yale earlier this year. \nFlo Graham-Dixon has worked in retail & hospitality strategy for a decade\, with high profile clients including Burger King\, Pret a Manger\, Ottolenghi\, Hawksmoor and Gail’s as well as private equity clients TriSpan\, Bridgepoint and Graphite. Flo spent a few months at Christ Church College studying Classics before reapplying to study English at St. Peters College. Today\, Flo is the co-founder of Juniper Strategy Ltd\, a consultancy firm specialising in restaurants and hospitality\, as well as Head of Strategy at Prepline Holdings\, a restaurant group with over 70 sites across the Middle East. Alongside her work for operators and investors\, Flo has a deep understanding of property and place-making. She was personally involved in bringing to life Alserkal Avenue – now the primary contemporary arts district in Dubai and co-authored Destination Food – Klépierre’s manifesto for creating F&B hubs across their diverse portfolio of 70 European malls. \nDhruti Shah is a multi-award-winning journalist\, storyteller and freelance creative practitioner whose work encompasses coaching\, consultancy\, investigations\, facilitating\, training and public speaking. She read English Literature at Oxford’s Mansfield College and honed her craft during 14 years at the BBC. She has written for The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, The New Humanitarian\, New Humanist and Fortune Magazine on many different topics. The author of illustrated award-winning financial literacy guide Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms\, she is also an advisor for the Museum of Colour\, a Clore cultural leader and a Board Trustee and Senior Fellow for the John Schofield Trust. She is also a Rotary International Peace Fellow\, an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma\, and was the first recipient of the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism honorary journalism practitioner fellowship. A published poet and short story writer\, she hosts the Have You Thought About podcast. \nKimberly Glassman is an English PhD researcher at Queen Mary University of London in partnership with Kew Gardens and works part-time as the Outreach Coordinator for Oxford’s Faculty of English. Kim has worked in marketing\, communications\, research and curation at Canadian institutions such as the McCord Museum\, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art\, Nuit Blanche x Art Maters Festival\, Concordia University’s Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group\, and the Museum of Jewish Montreal. After obtaining an MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture from the University of Oxford\, Kim worked for two years at The North Wall Gallery as Front of House Manager before returning to her studies at QMUL. Kim has published in SciArt Magazine (2019)\, The Oxford Mail (2020)\, Litinfinite Journal (2021)\, and the Nineteenth Century Gender Studies Journal (2022) and is currently based in Oxford. \nKate McLoughlin is a Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Harris Manchester College\, Oxford’s college for students aged 21+.  Having read English as an undergraduate at Oxford\, she qualified as a barrister and worked for the Government Legal Service for seven years\, with stints at the European Commission\, the French Conseil d’Etat and the UK Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.  She returned to Oxford at the age of 31 for a DPhil in English and subsequent academic career.  Kate is keen to reach out to anyone who is considering an English degree as a mature student and/or thinking about a mid-career change. \nJulia Sadler is the Link Careers Advisor for the English\, Classics and Law faculties at the University of Oxford Careers Service. Before joining the careers service\, Julia worked in publishing for 20 years as a commissioning editor at the legal publishers\, Lexis Nexis\, followed by managing editor at GTI\, the company that produces the TARGETjobs series of the graduate careers publications and websites. She has also worked as a publishing manager in the charity sector and as a TEFL teacher in Japan and London. Julia has a law degree from Reading and graduated from the Legal Practice Course at The University of Law\, before going into legal publishing. With her focus on careers in publishing\, Julia manages the ‘Insight into Publishing’ programme each Hilary term. You can book an appointment with Julia or any of our careers advisers on the Career Connect platform.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-englishcreates-careers-where-can-a-degree-in-english-take-you/
LOCATION:University of Oxford Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: ‘‘Turning over a new leaf’: the Arts and Humanities in climate change education’
DESCRIPTION:This Plenary Lecture by Professor Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) is to mark the launch of the new School of Humanities at the University of Reading. \nThis is a free online event for the English Create Campaign. Please access the lecture at 17.00pm on 4th June here: Turning over a new leaf: The Arts and Humanities in climate change education \nSpeaker \nRalph Pite is a Professor of Literature and the Romantic period at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on three key areas: the Romantic period (particularly on the impact of Dante’s writing at the time and on the lives and self-fashioning of Romantic poets); Victorian literature (especially the works and life of Thomas Hardy\, ideas of place in the period\, life-writing\, and Italian literature’s presence in English culture); and post-war British poetry. \nHis present research brings these three areas together by addressing questions of writing and the environment\, particularly with reference to the first world war poet Edward Thomas\, to Charlotte Mew\, and to ideas of ‘the Simple Life’ and to the new landscapes of an endangered world.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-turning-over-a-new-leaf-the-arts-and-humanities-in-climate-change-education/
LOCATION:University of Reading Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T173000
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SUMMARY:Online Event: The Poetry By Heart 14+ poetry timeline anthology
DESCRIPTION:Every GCSE poem with all kinds of free supporting resources \nThis event is for everyone who teaches GCSE English. We’ll give you a guided tour of the Poetry By Heart 14+ timeline anthology. This free resource gives you every poem set for examination by the AQA\, Edexcel\, OCR and Eduqas awarding bodies in a timeline format so you can see them over time. There are video and audio recordings of the poems\, mini biographies of the poets\, notes to help pupils find a way into the poems\, and extra resources to help teachers develop their love of poetry and plan lessons. \nDr Julie Blake\, FEA\, FRSL(Hon)\, co-directs Poetry By Heart\, the national poetry speaking competition for schools. She researches and writes about the history of poetry for children\, creates digital and print anthologies of poems for children and young people\, teaches poetry pedagogy and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry in the school English curriculum. Poetry by Heart is a national poetry speaking competition for schools and colleges in England. It’s also a website for teaching and learning about poetry – by heart and out loud\, and with plenty of choice for young people to explore poems and find the ones they love. \nThis online event is organised by the English Association and part of the #EnglishCreates Week. Tickets are free but please register your attendance in the eventbrite link below to receive details and link. \n 
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/ea-event-the-poetry-by-heart-14-poetry-timeline-anthology/
LOCATION:The English Association
CATEGORIES:In-person,Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Oracy
DESCRIPTION:Oracy\nThis discussion between Professor of Sociolinguistics\, Rob Drummond (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Reader in Rhetoric\,Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex) is on the exciting possibilities for oral skills tuition within English programmes. Topics covered include: What might a focus on Oracy involve? How might we avoid dictatorial aspects of “correct” modes of delivery? And what varieties of oracy might we embed in English programmes?\n\nSpeakers\n\nRob Drummond is a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. He is particularly interested in the ways in which spoken language varies between individuals and groups of speakers\, and the role that language variation plays in the construction and performance of identity. This involves the study of accents and dialects\, and the ability to measure fine phonetic differences in people’s speech.\n\n\n\n\n\nTom Wright is Head of English at University of Sussex and a historian of rhetoric\, which means that he analyse how people argued about ideas in the past. He specialises in nineteenth century Britain and America\, and how arguments about education and communication from that period can inform contemporary policy debates.\n\n\n\n Tom worked on the English Association’s response to the Oracy Commission.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis is an online event for English Creates. Please register for the link here.\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/ea-online-event-for-english-creates-oracy-a-discussion-between-bob-eaglestonerhul-and-tom-wright-sussex/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitian & Sussex Universities Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240603T183000
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SUMMARY:Online Event: What does it mean to be a reader?
DESCRIPTION:Reading Lessons: Carol Atherton and Robert Eaglestone in conversation. \nThe English Association is delighted to celebrate the publication of Carol Atherton’s new book\, Reading Lessons. Robert Eaglestone will interview Carol about her experiences as a teacher\, exploring how texts read in the classroom in secondary\, further\, and higher education shape students and teachers alike. All are welcome to attend this free\, online event. \n  \nCarol Atherton has taught English since 1996 and is currently Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire. Originally from Merseyside\, she read English at Oxford before doing a PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the English Association and a member of the National Association for the Teaching of English. Atherton has written for a range of publications aimed at teachers and students\, and she co-authored Teaching English Literature 16–19 (Routledge\, 2013). Reading Lessons is her first trade publication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRobert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway\, University of London.  He is the author of eight books\, including Doing English (4th edition 2017)\, Literature: Why it matters (Polity\, 2019) and Truth and Wonder: A literary introduction to Plato and Aristotle (Routledge 2022)\, and the editor or co-editor of ten more\, as well as the policy pamphlet ‘Powerful knowledge’\, ‘cultural literacy’ and the study of literature in schools (2021). He is Deputy Chair of the English Association’s Higher Education Committee. \n  \nAbout Reading Lessons \nHow can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can Lady Macbeth teach us about empathy? Should our expectations for our future be any greater than Pip’s? And why is it so important to make space for these conversations in the first place? \nIn a career spanning almost three decades\, English teacher Carol Atherton has taught generations of students texts that will be familiar to many of us from our own schooldays. But while the staples of exam syllabuses and reading lists remain largely unchanged\, their significance – and their relevance – evolves with each class\, as it encounters them for the first time. \nEach chapter of Reading Lessons invites us to take a fresh look at these novels\, plays and poems\, revealing how they have shaped our beliefs\, our values\, and how we interact as a society. As she recalls her own development as a teacher\, Atherton emphasizes the vital\, undervalued role a teacher plays\, illustrates how essential reading is for developing our empathy and makes a passionate case for the enduring power of literature. \nThis online event is part of the #EnglishCreates Week. Tickets are free but please register your attendance in the eventbrite link below to receive details and link. \n 
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-reader/
LOCATION:The English Association
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: What is a reader anyway?
DESCRIPTION:In this panel discussion\, we will wrestle with some big questions in the teaching of English. \nWhat does it mean to be a ‘reader’ and how might we make our students better at it? Who is the reader and what role does the author play? We will explore literary analysis\, developing individual interpretations and building our students’ confidence using the expertise and experience of our brilliant panel. We welcome questions for the panel in advance. \nThis online event is organised by the English Association as part of the #EnglishCreates Week. Tickets are free but please register your attendance in the eventbrite link below to receive details and link.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/ea-event-what-is-a-reader-anyway/
LOCATION:The English Association
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch:  Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an English Research Talk with Dr Caroline Magennis (University of Salford) on her new book Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women. 3-4pm\, on 3rd June. \n \n  \nThis English Creates event is via Zoom and open to all. Please register using the eventbrite link below to receive details and link to event. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-book-launch-harpy-a-manifesto-for-childfree-women/
LOCATION:Salford & Portsmouth Universities Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Event: What is Creative Criticism and what might it offer English?
DESCRIPTION:Creative Criticism : What is Creative Criticism and what might it offer English? \n\nIn this timely discussion between Prof John Schad (Lancaster) and Dr Barbara Cooke (Loughborough)\, they tackle questions on the exciting possibilities and potential pitfalls of Creative Criticism. Topics up for debate\, include: How might an emphasis on Creative Criticism be of mutual benefit both to Creative Writing and Hermeneutics (Literature)? Is Creative Criticism just a reduction of a “Discipline” into a form of confession or autobiography? What examples of do we have of where Creative Criticism has “worked”? Where have the speakers themselves been moved to write it?\n\nSpeakers\n\n\nJohn Schad researches in post-criticism\, or critical-creative writing; life-writing; play-writing; modernism; Victorian writing; literary theory; and the relationship between religion and literature. These interests are reflected in his current book project\, Ship of Names\, which works on and around the figure of Walter Benjamin’s estranged son Stefan. A full list of his publications is available here. He has also been General Editor for a series of experimental monographs called critical inventions – the series includes titles by Thomas Docherty\, Roger Ebbatson\, J.Hillis Miller\, Kevin Mills\, David Punter\, Michael Wood and Jean-Michel Rabaté.\n\n\nBarbara Cooke is a textual editor and creative non-fiction writer with interests in archival theory\, creative writing pedagogy and multimodality. Her periods of focus are interwar and twenty-first century literature. She is the co-executive editor of the Oxford University Press Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project and sits on the editorial board of the Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford. Barbara is Vice-Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies.\n\n\n\n\nThis is an online event for the English Creates Campaign. Please register here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/online-event-what-is-creative-criticism-and-what-might-it-offer-english/
LOCATION:Lancaster & Loughborough Universities Online
CATEGORIES:Online
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