Here is a collection of interviews with graduates from undergraduate English Language and Literature programmes discussing their current roles, how their undergraduate programmes relate to them, and how their work on English programmes helped contribute to their careers.
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Pragmatic Stylistics and Creative Practice: A workshop led by Billy Clark and Tony Williams
Wednesday 8 May. 2:45 – 3:45
You are invited to participate in this workshop developed by Billy Clark and Tony Williams in response to the call for expressions of interest and the current Gallery North exhibition programme, WHAT ARE WORDS WORTH?
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We are excited to announce that Northumbria University’s programme of events for this year’s Being Human Festival has now gone live.
Being Human is the national festival of the humanities, and this year Northumbria is one of only five institutions that have been awarded Research Hub status. This means that, working alongside community partners and with Tyne and Wear Archives & Museums, Northumbria researchers will deliver an exciting programme of free events that celebrate two iconic treasures of the North East: The Lindisfarne Gospels and Hadrian’s Wall.
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Here is information on our first Linguistics Research Seminar of the new academic year.
Our speakers are Billy Clark and Tony Williams, both from Northumbria. Billy and Tony have been discussing how pragmatic theories can be developed by looking at the work of creative writers (including how they talk about their work) and at how ideas from pragmatics might help writers to understand and develop their practice.
There is more information below. All welcome!
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We are delighted to welcome a group of Northumbria University interns to our team this semester.
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