Speaking for English Studies in UK Higher Education

University Architecture, Strategic Planning, and QR: part 1 of Speaking for English Studies in UK Higher Education 19 March 2021 A series of workshops aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and and influence The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a new series of workshops in…

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15 April 2021 Loneliness and Technology: Thinking Loneliness

Thinking Loneliness 15 April 2021 Thinking Loneliness is the sixth event in our series of The English Association’s special interest group on Loneliness and Technology. What is the relationship between loneliness and the history of thought? How have thinkers thought about loneliness through time? The reinvention of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Europe saw an influential upheaval…

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Motherhood’s Lonely States

Motherhood’s Lonely States 18 March 2021 Motherhood’s Lonely States is the third event in our series of The English Association’s special interest group on Loneliness and Technology. Motherhood is a paradoxical state: mothers are hugely in demand, and often rarely have time for themselves – the time of motherhood to borrow the title of Lisa…

Interview with Marcia Williams

Margaret Mallett last interviewed Marcia for an article entitled ‘Marcia Williams’ books for children: classic retellings and innovative information picturebooks’ published in English 4-11 Number 33, Summer 2008. Marcia’s books cover a particularly rich range of subjects and genres and are greatly valued by teachers and children. This interview is to catch up with Marcia’s…

Interview with Ian Whybrow

A former teacher, Ian Whybrow has been publishing children’s books since 1989. When you start to write a book, do you know how it will end? Seldom – though sometimes I start from the end. Do you base your characters on real people? Not always, though it’s useful to be able to hook certain characteristics…