Category Archives: Department of English Literature news and events

Our castaway this week is Katherine from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and our presenter is Department of English Literature alumna, Eleanor Dewar. *Disclaimer/trigger warning* I know the play/character I’m about to talk about is very problematic for some and … Continue reading →

Hot on the heels of Episode 4 comes our next castaway: the Reverend Edward Casaubon, also from Middlemarch, and our presenter is Kathy Williams, formerly of the Centre for Caribbean Studies and the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of … Continue reading →

Today’s presenter is Professor Gail Marshall, Head of the School of Literature and Languages, and Gail’s castaway is Dorothea Brooke, a central character in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life (1871-2). Disc 1. Vaughan Williams, ‘The Lark Ascending’ … Continue reading →

This episode has been co-written by Dr Mary Morrissey, Cait Cromartie (Year 12) and Aideen Cromartie (Year 9). This week’s castaway is Mosca Mye, the main character in two books by Frances Hardinge: Fly by Night (2005) and Twilight Robbery … Continue reading →

Welcome to the second episode of DEL Island Discs! To celebrate the weekend and the end of the first week of term, we are going to cast away an extra victim this week. In this series, literary characters are cast … Continue reading →

The DEL Island Discs team are very grateful to our colleagues in History for giving us the idea for this series (interdisciplinarity in action). We recommend you pop over to the History blog this week and catch up on the musical … Continue reading →

Professor David Brauner recently wrote for the online magazine ‘The Conversation’ about his favourite graphic novels. Here he writes for us an expanded article on his top give graphic novels. Student readers might wish to note that David teaches all the … Continue reading →

Welcome to the first episode in a new series of DEL Island Discs! In this series, literary characters are cast away on a distant desert island, located somewhere on the enigmatic fourth floor of the Edith Morley building. Each week … Continue reading →

Dr Sue Walsh is looking to recruit a student in the middle year(s) of their undergraduate degree (second year, or third year of four year degree) to work on a project working on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, which … Continue reading →

Join us to explore the experiences and representations of (dis)ability past and present, through different media, in and outside of academia! 3 February, 12-1.30pm, Chancellors G13 Dr Kai Syng Tan (Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Neurodiversity in Higher … Continue reading →