After studying gothic literature at various points in both my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees I absolutely fell in love with the genre and the study of death began to really intrigue me.
Therefore, when the opportunity for an internship as student support for the Death Online Research Symposium (DORS) at Northumbria University I jumped at the chance.
Continue reading “DORS Symposium Internship – Niamh’s Experience”
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.
Continue reading “Northumbria Being Human 2022”
We had an excellent line-up of speakers for our research seminar series in academic year 2021-2022. Here are the speakers and titles.
We will be announcing more great speakers for 2022-2023.
Continue reading “Linguistics Research Seminars 2021-2022”
The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Mel Evans from the University of Leeds.
The talk takes place online at 12-1pm UK time on Wednesday 8th of December. Please email me for a link: Billy Clark, billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk
Continue reading “When Oroonoko is not enough?”It’s clearing day at Northumbria. Several colleagues are helping answer calls from applicants for our BA courses in English Language, Literature and Creative Writing and also our Foundation Year in Humanities.
The clearing hotline number here is 0800 085 1085
If you’re not involved in clearing and/or would like to read some thoughts from colleagues in English at Northumbria, here are some recent articles which appeared in The Conversation:
Tony Williams on the story Cat Person and #metoo
Claire Nally on graphic novels
Katy Shaw on why the novel is not dead
Sarah Duffy on how we think about time
Claudine van Hensbergen on Hamilton
Here also is a piece by colleagues at Bradford and Swansea on how students use social media in making decisions about university applications
Northumbria Englishes 