Introducing…The Letters Page, Vol 1
December 13, 2016
This blog post was written by Annalise Grice, a researcher from the School of English and the current Production Manager of The Letters Page. “I’m a big fan of The Letters Page. Texts and emails are fine, but there’s nothing like a hand-written letter.” – Roddy Doyle The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters …
National Poetry Day – October 6th 2016
October 6, 2016
The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is ‘messages’. Having recently relocated to Nottingham from Glasgow, I think of how messages can be interpreted the Scottish way, meaning ‘groceries’ (a celebration of poems about the supermarket – Allen Ginsberg would surely approve). The generosity of the theme is intriguing – for me, the theme …
BAAL Vocabulary Studies SIG conference
July 21, 2016
This blog was written by Ana Pellicer–Sánchez, Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics The School of English at the University of Nottingham hosted the annual meeting of the BAAL Vocabulary Studies special interest group (SIG) on the 7th and 8th of July. The event was a great success with over 60 attendees from different countries, including the …
Staging The James Plays in Nottingham
June 13, 2016
This blog was written by Peter Kirwan, Assistant Professor in Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama Rona Munro’s trilogy The James Plays is a unique piece of event theatre. Three plays performed by one ensemble of actors, focusing in turn on the reigns of James I, James II and James III of Scotland; staged on an epic …
BAAL Vocabulary Special Interest Group Conference
June 9, 2016
This blog was written by Norbert Schmitt, Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of English. Thursday 7th July, 2016, 13.00-17.00 and Friday 8th July, 2016, 10.00-16.30 University of Nottingham Vocabulary is an essential aspect of learning any language. While much of vocabulary is acquired incidentally as a young child when learning a first language, second language learners often struggle …
Archaeology at Rendlesham
April 22, 2016
This blog post was written by Dr. John Baker, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Name-Studies. We’re familiar with stories about richly furnished burials such as Taplow in Buckinghamshire and Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, where the dead were placed under large mounds and accompanied by treasures. Increasingly, we’re able to shed light on the wider landscape of …
Q&A with Svenja Adolphs, GRT Lead for Cultures and Communication
April 6, 2016
Taken from the Research Blog posted on April 1, 2016, by Michael Jennings This is the fourth of our monthly Q&As with our five Global Research Theme (GRT) leads, for you to find out about who they are, their research and what it means to lead one of the University’s five GRTs. Read previous Q&As …
Interpreting the Viking Age
March 31, 2016
This blog post was written by Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English. The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland, was conquered by Vikings in the ninth century, and it was ruled by Viking and Norse kings until the thirteenth century. It is now a self-governing Crown …
Some thoughts on my poem Eight pieces in imitation of Thomas A. Clark published in Granta this Month
February 26, 2016
With most of my poems the writing process has been all about the drafting – crossing things out and jigging stuff around and starting again until eventually there is something I can’t improve on. Other times, though, it’s more like something I imagine a Zen monk might do – years of study and contemplation followed …
English Showcase Blog
February 15, 2016
This week I had the pleasure of attending The English Showcase which featured an impressive array of work from our students – and, in one instance, a former student who has gone on to publish a novel she began on the MA course. Clare Harvey’s novel, The Gunner Girl, was released last November, with a …
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