Book Launch: Postcolonial Traumas and Discrepant Parallels
December 22, 2015
This blog post was written by Dr Abigail Ward on the launch of her edited book Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance. The last week of term saw the double launch at Blackwell’s bookshop of Dr Abigail Ward’s edited collection Postcolonial Traumas and Discrepant Parallels by Dr Gillian Roberts (School of American and Canadian Studies). Postcolonial …
The Written Word: the Saudi Woman’s Window into Politics and Equality
December 21, 2015
This blog post was written by second year English student, Victoria Lorriman from the School of English. Saudi Arabia has elected about 17 female councillors from across the country in Saturday’s first ever municipal council elections open to female voters and candidates. Two days previously, the country’s election commission reported that Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi was …
We Read the Past, and It Reads Us: Researching Shakespeare and the Bible
December 16, 2015
This blog post was written by Dr Jem Bloomfield who tells us about his research on Shakespeare and the Bible. Why was St Augustine surprised to find St Ambrose reading the Bible to himself? Why did the Shakespearean critic Charles Lamb declare that King Lear should never be performed? These are a couple of the questions which …
Joint Honours – Twice the work?
December 14, 2015
I am lucky enough to be a joint honours student, studying both English and Philosophy. I have to say that each subject is like one of my children, I love them both equally (well, maybe I love English a little bit more!) I feed them, nurture them and entertain them, but come deadline time, my …
Place-Names and Medieval Settlement
December 7, 2015
Blog for MSRG conference, 12 December 2015 Place-Names and Medieval Settlement Where do you live? What space can you call your own, what is everybody’s and what belongs to others? What do you expect of your landlord or local administration? How do you use local facilities? What are the roads like, how close are you …
Final Year
This blog post was written by final year English student, Una Kunhya from the School of English. As you know I am currently in my third and final year studying in Nottingham. It has been amazing and I have done so much during my years here but there are still lots of things to be ticked off …
Places in Nottingham to make you feel all literary
November 30, 2015
This blog post was written by final year English student, Katie Randall from the School of English. Perhaps because I am an English student I’m more of a dreamer than your average student and sometimes when I’ve finished reading a book, I’m just not quite ready to let it go. Luckily for me, in Nottingham there are …
The Book Sprint
November 25, 2015
This blog post was written by Dr Spencer Jordan who set ten first-year students a challenge which involved writing a book in just three days. Could you write, edit and publish a book in three days? That was the challenge I set ten first-year School of English students who applied to my open invitation. The challenge used the …
Radhika’s Top 4 Reads: Fantasy
November 23, 2015
This blog post was written by final year American Studies and English student, Radhika Chond from the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. Fancy Fantasy? Well reading fantasy transports you into a world that’s entirely our own as our imagination skills are entirely personal, individual and different to the next person. We both may pick up …
Interview with Maggie Gee
November 18, 2015
On 11th November 2015 the School of English was lucky enough to host the novelist Maggie Gee, author of such books as Where Are the Snows (1991), The Ice People (1998), The White Family (2002), and, most recently, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014). As part of her visit, Maggie was interviewed by Dr Nathan Waddell, following an introduction by Professor …
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