Monthly Archives: July 2018

“What Do We Do Now?” Part 1

Thoughts on Enright, Academic Travelling and Critical Distance Robert Fraser, Emeritus Professor of English One afternoon in October 1974, I was standing in a somewhat Spartan corridor in the University of Leeds in desultory conversation with a tall, lean, slightly … Continue reading

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“What Do We Do Now?” Part 2

Thoughts on Enright, Academic Travelling and Critical Distance Robert Fraser, Emeritus Professor of English Continuing from Part 1 … I returned to Tetouan in 2016 and 2017, and will go back there again this coming October. In the meantime, a … Continue reading

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What I love about this job, or learning the merits of language

Richard Danson Brown, Professor of English Literature Four anonymous poems in Middle English: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Created: c. 1400, North-West Midlands, Creator, Anonymous. Held by: British Library One of the things that can … Continue reading

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Somewhere in Between – Review

Somewhere in Between: Four Collaborations, Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London, 8 March-27 August 2018 Sally O’Reilly, Lecturer, Creative Writing I walk into a black box, disorientated for a moment as the space resolves itself. Giant blue screens show human shapes … Continue reading

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Tolkien Exhibition: Review

Francesca Benatti, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities I recently visited this exhibition, which is the first Tolkien exhibition in 26 years and showcases artefacts from the Bodleian, Marquette University Library and the Tolkien family private collections, some never exhibited before. … Continue reading

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