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Five Hundred Years of Tragic Bimbos
Professor David Roberts, Head of the School of English at Birmingham City University It’s not often that a new opera is described as one of the arts events of the year, but Mark Anthony Turnage’s Anna...
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Teenagers to be encouraged to learn classic poetic works
Professor David Roberts, Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English at Birmingham City University, shares his views on Government’s new plans to improve the understanding of...
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e-books and p-books
By Professor David Roberts, Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English at Birmingham City University, discusses the exciting moment of text history we’re in with electronic...
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Transfer Windows and Giant Killers
Professor David Roberts, Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English at Birmingham City University, likens a predicted rise in academic research submissions to football...
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National Storytelling Week 2013
National Storytelling Week 2013 runs from 26th January until 2nd February. Dr Gregory Leadbetter, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University, discusses the...
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What is the value of an English degree?
Serena Trowbridge Dr Serena Trowbridge, Lecturer in English at Birmingham City University The School of English has an established and growing research profile and offers a variety of English courses...
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National Poetry Day 2013
Dr Gregory Leadbetter, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University. ‘“What is the use or function of poetry nowadays?” is a question not the less poignant...
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Andrew Kehoe (Director of Research in the School of English and REF2014 Unit of Assessment 29 Leader) talks about the Research Excellence Framework results and what they mean to the School of English....
View ArticleBleakness, buffering and the Man Booker prize
The winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, literature’s most famous accolade, is set to be announced. MA Creative Writing student John Hunter caught up with two of the shortlisted authors at the launch...
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My charity trek across Vietnam
Kate Thomas, Research Fellow at Birmingham City University Academic Kate Thomas has recently been using her poetic skills to help build a better future for some of the world’s poorest children, through...
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Victoria, the Victorians and us
By Serena Trowbridge, Lecturer in English Literature I often have conflicted views about books and TV programmes which deal with real historical figures. There are so many questions surrounding how we...
View ArticleTo wear or not to wear? Shakespeare and his interest in fashion
by Professor David Roberts, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University Playwrights and actors trade in illusion. They draw you into thinking that pretence is...
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