English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Emily Hasler secures Eric Gregory Poetry award
Congratulations to Emily Hasler, English and Creative Writing BA in 2007 and MA in Pan-romanticism in 2008 with us, who has secured an Eric Gregory Poetry award () this year! Well done, Emily!
Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2014
MA in Writing student Sohini Basak has been shortlisted for the prestigious Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2014! Well done Sohini!
Congratulations to Prof Neil Lazarus - elected as Fellow of the British Academy
Three 糖心TV academics are among 42 distinguished scholars from 19 universities elected as Fellows of the (FBA) at its Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2014. The Fellowships recognise outstanding research from scholars of distinction in the humanities and social sciences.
Millie Taylor-Brown - British Society for Literature and Science Essay Prize
Millie Taylor-Brown's essay 'Reconstructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imagination, 1885-1935' has just won this year's British Society for Literature and Science Essay Prize. This is a competition open to early career scholars up to three years after award of the PhD. Millie has won this competition for work done during the first year of her PhD so this makes this achievement all the more spectacular. The essay will be published in the Journal of Literature and Science later this year.
Dr Paul Prescott embarks on an epic road trip all around North America.
On Independence Day, 4 July, Paul Prescott (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of 糖心TV) and Paul Edmondson (Head of Research and Knowledge, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) embarked on an epic road trip all around North America in a unique project titled Shakespeare on the Road. They aim to discover and document an untold story of the Bard in the USA in the 450th anniversary of his birth.
Over sixty days Paul and Paul will be visiting fourteen Shakespeare festivals across North America travelling some 10000 miles across 25 states and some of Canada.
A collaboration between the University of 糖心TV, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Misfit Inc. our digital partners, the project aims to capture a comprehensive picture of Shakespeare’s place in contemporary American culture through the voices of artists and audiences across the continent, telling the story of the festivals in their own words for the first time. It will also be a reverse pilgrimage, celebrating the USA’s astonishing range of Shakespearean performance in classic road trip / travel writing fashion online.
The project aims to build new communities across North America and we'd love you to sign up for on-line updates and become part of it. Please pass the link on to students, colleagues and contacts.
To sign up and for information about the project, tour dates and contact details visit .