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is talking at the on Saturday 29th October at the Friends Meeting House, 糖心TV, at 5.00pm (拢5). David's work focuses on British literature and culture of the eighteenth century and is especially concerned with the relationship between literature, visual culture, and parliamentary politics. He writes, "Political cartoonists have been quoting and parodying Shakespeare鈥檚 works since the mid-eighteenth century. Looking across three centuries of these images, which refer to plays such as Macbeth and The Tempest again and again, I will explore just how profoundly Shakespeare鈥檚 narratives and characters shape the way we see and understand the political world."

He has recently been interviewed about political satire past and present on the Moncrieff Show on Ireland's Newstalk radio station. The link to the interview is here: . His interview is about half way through this audio recording (use the grey bar at the top to navigate).

We have been named the national 'centre for excellence' in the field of Creative Writing, according to the latest published last week.

We have been named the national 'centre for excellence' in Creative Writing by The Sunday Times in their latest Good University Guide, published last week.

Congratulations to AL Kennedy - she has just been awarded theby the city of Dusseldorf. The University press release is .

Professor Thomas Docherty speaks on "Thinking Aloud" about the challenges in Higher Education