As part of a £100,000 British Council grant (Principal Investigator Bill Guariento), Northumbria University welcomed students and academics from the Islamic University of Gaza this week. After 2 years of online work, we now have face-to-face contact.
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You hear of societies and extracurriculars to boost your CV before you get to university, but I could never have contemplated something like this. This opportunity, pulsing in my email inbox, to intern for The Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine…
I’ve spent 10 weeks in the doghouse, and I never want to leave. Alongside Nadia, our other lovely BD intern from Northumbria Uni, we have had our hands on everything Butcher’s Dog from the tail up.
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Hello! My name is Elizabeth, and I am a recent English Literature and History graduate from Northumbria University. This summer I have been working on an internship organised by Ann-Marie Einhaus on the ‘Ephemera and writing about war, 1914 to the Present’, who was always just an email away if I had any questions.
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We’re very sorry to have to announce that this event is now cancelled. This is due to a combination of industrial action and staff unavailability. We will be hosting other events next academic year, including an A Level Day in November. We look forward to seeing you there!
CANCELLED:
We are very happy to announce this year’s A Level (Year 12) English Language Day, which will take place at our City Campus on 5 July 2023.
The event is free and has limited spaces (we hope to accommodate all of you but bookings will have to be first come first served).
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The next seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 26th April at 12:00 in Lipman 121.
The speaker is Professor Paul Simpson from the University of Liverpool and his talk will be on ‘Irony and its consequences in the public sphere‘ (there’s an abstract below)
The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online (more info on each below).
All welcome!
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Northumbria Englishes 