In a new study Dr Ruth Page (pictured) from the School of English suggests that we shouldn’t believe everything that we read – and that on websites such as Wikipedia information may not be as neutral as it seems. In her recently published paper in the academic journal Language and Literature entitled ‘Counter narratives and […]
Talented writers will be able to tell the untold stories of the post-industrial past of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter, thanks to a new project from the School of English. The Centre for New Writing, which is participating in an Arts and Humanities Research Council project called ‘Affective Digital Histories’, is commissioning writers to produce work which […]
Apology I’ve used a lot of paper, I know that’s pretty bad, and when I think about it it makes me kind of sad. I’ve pondered on the problem, I’ve thought about it hard and that used up realms of paper and stacks and stacks of card. I’ve racked my brains and […]
SPELL (Society for Postgraduate English Literature and Language) are literally breaking new ground this term by kicking off events with a tree planting. The society is donating £50 towards the planting of a red oak tree (quercus rubra) on the boundary between campus and Victoria Park. SPELL Secretary Suzi Shimwell who led the bid to […]
20 November marks Transgender Day of Remembrance. TDoR was established in 1998 to memorialize those murdered because of transphobia, and to spotlight the extraordinarily high levels of violence faced by transsexuals, transvestites, and gender variant people. According to statistics gathered by The Trans Murder Monitoring Project, a transgender person is killed approximately every three […]
A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace At the end of last month, The Sunday Times proclaimed that the crime novelist P. D. James had found a solution to the murder of Julia Wallace, an unsolved case from early 1931 that has sometimes been dubbed the […]
Despite being deemed a “writer’s writer” and “the Canadian Chekhov”, Alice Munro has never achieved wide recognition. That has just changed. From now on, she will be known as “the Nobel Prize winning author”, having received the world’s most prestigious literary award on 10th October. At 82, Munro is not the oldest author to receive […]
I was recently invited by my friend and former colleague Christine Chettle, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, to lead a guest workshop for STAR (Student Action for Refugees) in Little London, a suburb of Leeds. Please visit their national website on the following link: http://www.star-network.org.uk/ When Christine originally asked me to contribute […]
Our new MA in English Language and Linguistics by Distance Learning got underway about a month ago. Our students are based both in Britain and in other countries, stretching around the globe from Asia to Africa to North America. It’s a diverse and international group of talented students. As the convenor of the distance learning […]
(from http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2013/october/american-studies-expert-takes-up-prestigious-research-fellowship) University of Leicester’s Professor Martin Halliwell will research American medicine and psychiatry as part of a new fellowship at the Institute of the Americas, University College London Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 4 October 2013 Images of Professor Halliwell’s publications available from pt91@le.ac.uk A University of Leicester expert on […]
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