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Teaching The Hobbit on Round the Wrekin today, so @DaisyEBlack combed her feet and dressed accordingly.
This is what studying English and the Humanities can do for you. Well done Tom!
Congratulations to our 3rd year student Tom - English Lit and Media & Culture - on getting the highest ever score on Countdown.... fantastic m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdcJ7…
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Our @wlv_uni #big_book_review team is delighted by this news. I hope our @ahrcpress-funded project "Novel Perceptions: towards an inclusive canon" can continue to help make our reading diet more inclusive. @WLV_English @wlvimpact @CTTR19
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Off to teach Round The Wrekin today: a literary and cultural history of the West Midlands. Starting with this fraudulent gem: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHVO1…
Very sorry to hear that Hilary Mantel has died - she wrote in an astonishingly wide number of genres, from gothic satire to historical fiction and never ever said anything predictable or unnuanced.
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Great to meet all our new students today, and we’re looking forward to welcoming back 2nd and 3rd years later in the week.
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Excellent fun stuff organised all week by @revsarahschof
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Frank's and Pauline's retirement party - for all my colleagues. flickr.com/gp/plashingvole/f…
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If you want to take your love of literature to the next level, check this: wlv.ac.uk/courses/ma-english…. You'll work with world-leading researchers, study the work of Amitav Ghosh and work with MA students from Berdyansk University in the Ukraine. #MAEnglishLiterature #MAEnglish
Wonderful stuff from our @Wlv_Tesol_Ling colleague.
This may well be of interest to some. Guests include the poet Liz Berry, linguist Dr Esther Asprey, artist and producer Dawinder Bansal and historian Simon Briercliffe.. bbc.co.uk/events/eqpqwh/acts…
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Now we’re into September I can officially say… my new novel comes out this month! Safe Word arrives on Sept 21 & I’m so excited for this wild book to be out. It’s available on #kindle now for just 99p if you fancy treating yourselves (& making my day): geni.us/SafeWordCover
Farewell to @Bourrerlecrane and Frank Wilson - our beloved deputy head and head of school who retired today.
Toby the Sapient Pig was a Victorian phenomenon: treasures.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/…
Wisdom is leaving the School of Humanities. Toby the Sapient Pig is retiring with our much loved Head of Department and @WLV_English lecturer, Frank. This feels like a worryingly apt metaphor.
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This morning I'm putting plans together for my upcoming lecture on (in)accuracy in true crime. If you want to hear me rant about Truman Capote for 70 minutes, you can grab your free ticket to the online event here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-truth…
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