Humanities

Dark Dreamers: Decadent Modernities in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and the Visual Arts – Aksshat Goel (BA English Literature – second year student)

BA English Literature / What our students are up to 16 Apr 2021 Dr Simon May

Juliet Simpson, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, delivered a riveting lecture on 12th February, 2021 to students on the ‘Victorians and Empire’ and ‘Modernism’ modules. The session was…

BA English Language and TEFL students work towards an Internationally Recognised Teaching Qualification.

BA English Language and TEFL / What our students are up to 16 Apr 2021 Dr Simon May

An opportunity for an internationally recognised teaching qualification is available for students on the BA English Language and TEFL degree. On Monday 12th April 2021, instead of queuing up for…

Research Talk: Three Recent Robots

What our staff are up to 9 Apr 2021 Emma S.

Please join us for our final talk of the semester, given by Tom Knowles (English, CAMC). Tom's talk is titled: Three Recent Robots: Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, Ian McEwan’s Machines Like…

Research Seminar Series: Fear, Loathing, and Redemption on 4chan’s Advice Board

Uncategorized 1 Apr 2021 Emma S.

The penultimate research seminar of the term is presented by Dr Marcus Maloney, Lecturer in Sociology and Research Associate, Centre for Postdigital Cultures image: a protestor in the US senate…

Research Seminar Series: Indicators of disparity in the language of feedback

Events / What our staff are up to 22 Mar 2021 Emma S.

24 March 2020, 16:00 – 17:00 Sheena Gardner (School of Humanities, CAMC) & Siân Alsop (GLEA) Disparity of attainment between students and groups of students from different backgrounds is an…

A Supportive And Engaging Environment For Enhancing Employability

Undergraduate / What our students are up to 16 Mar 2021 Emma S.

Abigail Archer, in Paris Abigail Archer graduated in 2020 from the the BA Hons French and Business course in the School of Humanities. This is what she had to say…

Student Experience: Bethan Parkin (BA Languages for Global Communication – Year 1)

BA Languages for Global Communication 23 Feb 2021 Dr Simon May

Bonjour, Hola, Ciao, my name is Bethan Parkin and I am a first-year student, studying Languages for Global Communication This course involves studying 2 languages, either post A level or…

Climate Change and COVID-19 – Student Work

BA English / BA English Literature / Uncategorized / Undergraduate / What our students are up to 19 Feb 2021 Emma S.

Aksshat Goel, a Year 2 BA English Literature student, has made a video on climate change. Ash writes: In the early months of the lockdown, I was stuck inside like…

Dancing World Politics: new paper by Associate Professor Felix Rösch

BA International Relations / BA Politics / MA International Relations / What our staff are up to 4 Feb 2021 Emma S.

Was dancing just pastime at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)? Seven European heads of state, with central three doing a kind of jig. c1815. Hand-coloured etching (British Museum) In a…

1st BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG event 2021: Core Corpus Skills for Academic Purposes

Events / MA English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics / What our staff are up to / What's on 20 Dec 2020 Emma S.

Date: 14 January 2021Time: 10:00-16:30Venue: Online (registered participants will receive Zoom link to join) There is little or no mention of corpora in much of the guidance for EAP…