Monthly Archives: July 2013

English@Reading

The department is pleased to announce the success of a bid to the Annual Fund. As a result of this we will be launching a YouTube channel in the Autumn Term:  English@Reading. We will be lodging a series of short … Continue reading

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Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece acquired by the university

The University is delighted to announce that it has acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500, at an auction at Sotheby’s in London today. The hand-written manuscript, which has been in … Continue reading

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Walt Whitman under discussion

On Thursday 4th July, the Contemporary Poetry Discussion Group decided that they were going to be mixing it up a little by changing their usual contemporary focus and looking at Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves of Grass. In particular, they were looking at the first 11 … Continue reading

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The pleasure of graduation…

Huge congratulations from us all to our splendid students. We thoroughly enjoyed your graduation and welcomed the chance to celebrate with you. We will miss you and hope that you’ll keep in touch – we wish you every success in the future.

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Thinking about the future

  Last week members of our department took time away from their regular duties to spend a day together considering some aspects of our teaching and learning strategy for the next academic year. Under discussion were issues such as how to … Continue reading

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Gothic delights

On Thursday 27th, we welcomed year 12 students to the department for a university preview day, an event that gives them the opportunity to see what university teaching is like and gives us a chance to get to know our … Continue reading

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