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Category Archives: Teaching and learning
In conversation with Ellora Sutton, prize-winning MA student
OU Creative Writing MA student Ellora Sutton, winner of the 2020 Mslexia Poetry competition, talks to Sally O’Reilly, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing. Can you tell me about yourself and your writing? When did you first start? Do you focus on writing … Continue reading
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Creative Writing Workshops on Word/Image Relationships
Patrick Wright, PhD Creative Writing Student Over the last year or so, I have been facilitating a series of creative writing workshops on the theme of responding to images or objects. I was interested in exploring some outreach opportunities, especially … Continue reading
Ten days with Edith Wharton: impressions of an archival visit
By Isabelle Parsons, PhD student, English Literature (1) It’s a Monday morning in June and I’m standing in front of the imposing granite and marble cube that is the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. I’ve spent … Continue reading
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“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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Scholarship and Research
Suman Gupta Slightly out of focus The connotations of the word ‘scholarship’ have always been a bit fuzzy, especially in academia. The OED puts it between, on the one hand, ‘learning, erudition; the collective attainments of scholars; the sphere of … Continue reading
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Digital Habitus and Institutional Responsibility
Suman Gupta Pedagogic Context I continue here with the argument of the earlier posting on Direct and Mediated Contact in Literary Pedagogy. I do so at a similar level of generality, without as yet nuancing the argument along the lines … Continue reading
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Response to Direct and Mediated Contact: Further Questions
Richard Allen The analysis and the questions raised in the previous posting on Direct and Mediated Contact in Literary Pedagogy are pertinent to the future of Literary Studies. My comments here don’t dare to provide answers but raise two issues … Continue reading
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Narrative Imperialism and Writing Home: A conversation between Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, a new PhD student, and Sarah Butler, a recent graduate
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone has just embarked on a PhD in creative writing funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership. We put her in touch with Sarah Butler, who was recently awarded her own PhD in creative writing, … Continue reading →