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We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are thrilled to be ranked 9th in the Guardian’s university subject rankings for 2027! 🎉🥳🎊
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We are delighted to be ranked FIRST in the UK for both English Literature and Creative Writing in the latest Daily Mail university rankings! 🎉
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'We asked the Cathys to dance for Emily Brontë, Kate Bush and their respective Wuthering Heights, but also for the bogs and moorland.' Our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social co-organised this event involving 500 Cathys dancing to Wuthering Heights!
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Really pleased to be talking with Meg Duell today about ‘The Sensory Wuthering Heights’ for the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Brilliant speaking at Bradford Lit Fest at the weekend with Jo Parsons and then with Lucasta Miller, chaired both times by the fabulous Kate Fox #literature #history #heritage
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thrilled to be participating in two fabulous events for Bradford Lit Fest (@bradfordlitfest.bskyb.social) this year.
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
And that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐
Conference poster for 'Weird Modernisms', featuring an illustration of The Empress by Pamela Coleman Smith and the text 'Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK'.
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wellofloneliness.bsky.social @wellofloneliness.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Some of the team presented on the 'Weirding Lesbian Modernism' panel at Weird Modernisms @lborouniversity.bsky.social last week, with papers on Radclyffe Hall and reincarnation, queer femininities and the ever-glorious Tinkle the Cat! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The English Department @lborouniversity.bsky.social recently welcomed 400 academics from around the globe to explore works of Weird Modernism, bringing together @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social and led by our own Emily Bell, Jade French & @profsarahparker.bsky.social.
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English Department hosts major international conference on Weird Modernisms
Loughborough University recently welcomed over four hundred academics from around the globe to explore, celebrate and study works of Weird Modernism.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations to our own Joan Fitzpatrick, now Joan Fitzpatrick, FRHistS! Joan has been elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship:
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Reader accredited with Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society
Dr Joan Fitzpatrick has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of her eminent contribution to historical scholarship.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our own Andrew Dix has (with one of our former Doctoral Researchers, Pete Templeton) published the 5th edition of American Cultural Studies (Routledge). There is a companion website featuring a timeline of American history, electronic resources, suggested research topics and assignment questions:
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American Cultural Studies
A Routledge Companion Website
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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We're pleased to share that Loughborough University will soon offer undergraduate study in English and History, co-taught between IRPH and our friends at @lboroenglish.bsky.social. The first English and History cohort will start in September 2027. Details below! www.lboro.ac.uk/study/underg...
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English and History BA | Undergraduate study | Loughborough University
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This new edition not only brings the novel up to date - incorporating a great deal of new knowledge about Anne and her book from recent years - but also includes references to newly identified archival items that bring fresh significance to certain textual details. 🎉
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’m thrilled to have finally sent off the manuscript for a new edition of Agnes Grey that I’ve produced for @oxunipress. Working with Anne’s novel has been utterly joyful - she is such a smart writer and woe betide those who underestimate the power of Agnes Grey.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
English doctoral researcher and poet Michael Brown has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition run by @poetrysociety.org.uk. Many congratulations, Michael!
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National Poetry Competition - The Poetry Society
National Poetry Competition 2025 The competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. The 2025 competition is judged by Denise Saul,...
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Caspar Wort @casparwortpoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Last year, I wrote some poetry responding to Libita Sibungu’s “Deep Recovery”. This has now been displayed alongside two visual art pieces in Pilkington library. @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.
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How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry
Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.
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Troubling timing: “modernism, generations, and the gaps between” a conversation between Jade French and Sarah Parker
Studies centred on questions of generationality, periodization, and ageing have flourished in modernist scholarship in recent years. In a conversation reflecting on this work, Sarah Parker and Jade...
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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history? Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞
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A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour
One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.
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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
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Lisa Climie-Somers @lisaclimieofficial.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My brilliant colleague @lboroenglish.bsky.social @hannahpalmer.bsky.social has had a new article published this week in Oxford's Notes & Queries. Hannah shares new findings related to Mrs Gaskell's letters about Mrs Glover health.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A new monograph by our own Brian Jarvis, Don DeLillo and the Visual, offers a fresh perspective on DeLillo for the Age of the Image.
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Don DeLillo and the Visual
Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on ...
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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨
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Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes
‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The latest issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social's Gothic Studies features articles by our own Dr Nick Freeman and doctoral researcher Milly Harrison, on 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic':
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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Cookie Absent
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...' Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:
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The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life
These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Congratulations Dr Turner!
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Caspar Wort @casparwortpoet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The cats are trying to do my poetry response survey, but they’re not very good at it. Could you help me out? @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This Sunday our own Elaine Hobby, Professor Emerita of 17th-Century Studies, will be speaking at a Royal Society of Literature event honouring Maureen Duffy with the inaugural Pioneer Prize.
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RSL presents: The Pioneer Prize - Royal Society of Literature
Sunday 30 November, 14:30-16:00, Pigott Theatre, British Library and online. Free for everyone. Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative which will spotlight and celebrate wri...
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Even more time to get Weird with us @lboroenglish.bsky.social in July 2026!
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
'One of the incidental delights in watching the series is to encounter stalwarts of British acting even in minor roles.' Our own Andrew Dix reviews Down Cemetery Road, Apple TV's adaptation of Mick Herron's debut novel, for @theconversation.com
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Down Cemetery Road: Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson delight in this light conspiracy thriller
This adaptation dials down the political intrigue and ramps up the action.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, is co-organising the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, held at the Uni of Leeds on 20 May 2026. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Alluvium. Deadline for abstracts: 4 January 2026. CFP here: bacls.org/news/188/
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News - BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies Conference 2026 CFP
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This open letter to COP30 calling for the arts and humanities to be central to responses to the climate crisis chimes with the current research project of our Vice Chancellor’s Independent Research Fellow @hrmilligan.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/op...
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Open letter to COP30: Use storytelling to fight climate crisis - University of Birmingham
Actors, authors, and public figures have signed an open letter calling for the cultural sector to have a prominent role in the fight against the climate crisis.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Early today, we were treated to an excellent paper by Dr Frankie Dytor from the University of Exeter. It was hosted by our Cultural Currents: Nineteenth to Twentieth Century research group, and the title of Frankie's paper was 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Last week we hosted two excellent research papers:@braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We took our first-year Intro to Drama students to the Birmingham Rep theatre last night to see Deafinitely Theatre's production of Eloise Pennycott's play, 'Barrier(s)' - a queer/deaf love story with a rich interweaving of English and BSL. We were also treated to an excellent post-show discussion.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"Any “soft” arts subject such as history, English, theology, foreign languages, teaches how to think critically, research effectively, and deepens your understanding of the world: vital skills in our time of disinformation, cults and AI." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Oscar Wilde was born on this day in 1854 🥳 Our own Nick Freeman has written the ‘London’ chapter of the new Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde (OUP), which explores the significance of the city in Wilde’s life and work. Wildeans everywhere will want this in their Christmas stocking.
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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
2/2 Followed by Dr Nick Freeman "Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum In collaboration with @healthhumslboro.bsky.social Wed 29 Oct, 16.15-17.30 - hybrid, DM for Teams link.
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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...
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The Victorian Ghost Story
The Victorian Ghost Story
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Last month Barbara Cooke and @wvmierlo.bsky.social spoke at the Modernist Editing symposium (Uni of Reading). Wim drew on his monograph, Scholarly Editing in Perspective, to re-assess the default framework for Scholarly Editions. Barbara reflected on 12 years of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So excited that my article 'Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle', co-written with the fantastic @frankiedytor.bsky.social, is out in the world! & in great company with @preraphsrule.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social & more!
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Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle - Volume 53 Issue 2
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
If you want to celebrate the launch of Michael Field in Context, save the date for a hybrid launch/roundtable event on Thurs 27 Nov, 18.30-20.00: bads.gold.ac.uk/future-fields
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...
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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
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University English Funding
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢📢📢 Calling all poetry readers: if you could spare a few minutes to help @casparwortpoet.bsky.social with his poetry PhD research, that would be excellent!
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It was a real pleasure welcoming English and Liberal Arts students to our department today. After a welcome from @justin-waring.bsky.social, @sadiseshiah.bsky.social, Barbara Cooke, Rachael Grew, and our English Committee, some of our academics shared their favourite text to teach! #EscapedAlone
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