D. H. Lawrence and Work
February 5, 2016
This blog post was written by Dr Andrew Harrison, Assistant Professor in English Literature, from the School of English. On Wednesday 13 January 2016 I participated in a pre-show discussion at the National Theatre on the topic of ‘D. H. Lawrence and Work’. The event was scheduled to accompany its current production of Husbands and …
Are you a friend of Ron Carter?
January 29, 2016
I am eating delicious but unidentifiable sashimi, and looking out at the inside of the dormant caldera of a volcano. There is grass growing on the cold lava rock, and it feels like I am on top of a Bond villain’s lair. This is Kyushu, in Japan, and I’m here representing the university, a million …
Notes from research leave: close encounters with the book
January 26, 2016
I’m currently on research leave completing a couple of projects. One of these is a new, student-focused edition of Doctor Faustus, and my leave allows me time to visit the archives necessary for editorial work. We’re fortunate at Nottingham to have access to Early English Books Online (EEBO), a database containing thousands of scanned early …
King Canute’s Roots in Mirkwood
January 18, 2016
This blog was written by Professor Judith Jesch in anticipation of the Fell-Benedikz Lecture taking place 29 January 2016. King Canute is today best known for the apocryphal story in which he demonstrates to his courtiers that he cannot hold back the tide. But more significantly, a thousand years ago this year, he became the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dementia Day-to-Day
November 9, 2015
This blog post was written by Dr Kevin Harvey who tells us about the launch of his new initiative, Dementia Day-to-Day, which is a new blogging platform run jointly with the Institute of Mental Health. For a while now, I’ve been working on helping to put together a new blogging platform called Dementia Day-to-Day, which will …
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