A piece of textile art inspired by a Psychology research project has gone on display at Northern Ireland’s Linen Biennale. ‘The Belfast Quilt’ was the brainchild of Heather Richardson, Staff Tutor in English and Creative Writing.
A collaboration between academics from The Open University (OU) and the University of Zagreb has launched the first Croatian chatbot about reading.
Inspired by Professor John Dixon’s ESRC-funded Belfast Mobility Project (BMP), The Belfast Quilt, devised by Dr Heather Richardson, is a stunning piece of collaborative textile art - in the form of a patchwork quilt made of upcycled Irish linen.
Dr Emma Claire Sweeney, Lecturer in Creative Writing for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), will be among the fantastic line-up of speakers for this year’s Creative Coalition Festival.
The Creative Writing Handbook for Health Care Workers is the result of The Open University and North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust joining forces on a pilot to establish whether creative writing practice could reduce stress with Health Care Workers.
This year’s annual International Vernon Lee Society Lecture, supported by HOBAR and the IES, was provided by Dustin Friedman (Assistant Professor of Literature at American University in Washington, DC) on October 14, 2020. Friedman’s paper entitled ‘“Sinister Exile”: Queer Myth and Aesthetic Teleology in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee’ contemplated Pater’s ‘Gods in Exile’, Lee’s ‘Dionea’ and the limitation of Western aesthetic ideals.
Michael Rodgers' (Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in English) monograph Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2018) is one of three shortlisted for The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Award for junior scholars.
As COVID-19 forces us to work from home and attend endless online meetings, our bookshelves are suddenly on public display. An online conference this November will be critically examining this particular cultural phenomenon
Richard Danson Brown is a Professor of English Literature at the OU. In this blog, he discusses the work of Edmund Spenser, written in the 16th century, during the height of the plague. Find out what his writing tells us about that experience
Helen Chambers is an Honorary Associate in English at the OU. She explores the role that reading played for those embarking on epic voyages to Australia in the late nineteenth century, namely those who travelled on the purpose-built passenger clipper the Torrens
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