Monthly Archives: June 2012

English PhD Student wins 2012 Teaching Prize

Nicola Abram writes:   I’m surprised and thrilled to have won the University of Reading’s Teaching and Learning Support Programme Portfolio Prize! I’m looking forward to attending the Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony on the 18th September, where Professor Gavin … Continue reading

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Contemporary Poetry Dicsussion Group

Continuing last session’s focus on poetry in translation, this week we will discuss an Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (‘Noola Ni Gonal’). We will discuss poems from her collection The Fifty Minute Mermaid (2007), which was translated by Paul Muldoon. … Continue reading

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Thank you to our open day visitors

  We just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ to all the students, parents (and grandparents) who visited us on Friday’s open day. We hope you enjoyed the day, and managed to see something of our beautiful campus despite … Continue reading

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The launch of our latest Creative Writing Anthology

  The launch of this year’s Creative Arts Anthology, One Moment’s Clouds, was a great success. As the series has grown since it started in 2008—receiving around three hundred submissions this year alone—so too have its supporters and contributors, some … Continue reading

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Lise Jailant writes about our symposium

    Lise Jaillant, PhD candidate in English at the University of British Columbia, writes: I attended a one-day symposium earlier this year at the University of Reading (Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940). It was … Continue reading

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Dr John Holmes: AHRC Fellowship Science in Culture

  I have been working for just over a year now on science and the Pre-Raphaelites, and I’ve just been awarded an AHRC Fellowship under the heading of ‘Science in Culture’ to spend next year working on this project. Critics … Continue reading

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Contemporary Poetry Discussion Group

This week we will be expanding our horizons and breaking out of our comfort zone by looking at Contemporary Japanese Poetry. We have chosen two prose poem sequences by two Japanese women poets, Ayane Kawata and Chimako Tada, together with … Continue reading

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