Monthly Archives: May 2014

Lily Brown, one of our students, writes about her academic placement

Lily writes: My placement with Reading Repertory Theatre was a wonderful experience, a chance to understand what I had been learning in the classroom in a real world setting. The placement with the theatre company was offered to me and … Continue reading

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Italian conference report

Nicola Wilson writes: ‘Democratic Highbrow’: Bloomsbury between elite and mass culture, University of Salerno, Italy, 8-9 May 2014 I was very fortunate to be invited to speak at this conference last week, in the beautiful and mountainous coastal town of … Continue reading

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Event report: ‘Towards a Postcolonial Pedagogy: Engaging with literary representations of “race”, racism and ethnicity’

 Dr Nicola Abram writes: In the Department of English Literature here at Reading, undergraduate students can choose from several modules that focus on texts from postcolonial contexts. These courses include ‘Black British Fiction’, ‘Nigerian Prose Literature’ and ‘Writing Global Justice’. … Continue reading

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Early Modern Research Centre event

Prof. Andrew Burn will be delivering a paper entitled ‘Playing Shakespeare: developing a game-authoring tool for Macbeth with Shakespeare’s Globe’, on Wednesday 14 May, 5 pm, in HUMSS G74, Whiteknights Campus. Professor Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University of London, will … Continue reading

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