{"id":957,"date":"2022-01-21T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/?p=957"},"modified":"2022-01-21T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:11:09","slug":"launch-of-new-language-literature-and-politics-research-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/launch-of-new-language-literature-and-politics-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of new Language, Literature and Politics research group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Group<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Language, Literature and Politics research group<\/a>\u00a0is a cross-faculty initiative, bringing together researchers from the\u00a0School of Arts and Humanities<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0School of Languages and Applied Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies<\/a>. The aim of the group is to investigate the relationship between language, literature (literary criticism and creative writing) and politics in the widest variety of contexts.<\/p>\n

Co-directors\u00a0Professor\u00a0David\u00a0Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Philip Seargeant<\/a>\u00a0founded the new research group to give oxygen to interdisciplinary research conversations and initiatives, and they see it as an exciting opportunity for new and interesting synergies to emerge.<\/p>\n

The group launched with an online literary event featuring author\u00a0Jim Crace<\/a>, who read from his Booker-shortlisted novel,\u00a0Harvest<\/i>, and spoke to OU Lecturer in Creative Writing and fellow novelist, Dr\u00a0<\/a>Emma Claire Sweeney<\/a>, about the interrelationship between politics and language in his own work.<\/p>\n