Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history? Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

My brilliant colleague @lboroenglish.bsky.social @hannahpalmer.bsky.social has had a new article published this week in Oxford's Notes & Queries. Hannah shares new findings related to Mrs Gaskell's letters about Mrs Glover health.

A new monograph by our own Brian Jarvis, Don DeLillo and the Visual, offers a fresh perspective on DeLillo for the Age of the Image.

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

The latest issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social's Gothic Studies features articles by our own Dr Nick Freeman and doctoral researcher Milly Harrison, on 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic':

'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...' Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:

Congratulations Dr Turner!

The cats are trying to do my poetry response survey, but they’re not very good at it. Could you help me out? @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social

This Sunday our own Elaine Hobby, Professor Emerita of 17th-Century Studies, will be speaking at a Royal Society of Literature event honouring Maureen Duffy with the inaugural Pioneer Prize.

Even more time to get Weird with us @lboroenglish.bsky.social in July 2026!

'One of the incidental delights in watching the series is to encounter stalwarts of British acting even in minor roles.' Our own Andrew Dix reviews Down Cemetery Road, Apple TV's adaptation of Mick Herron's debut novel, for @theconversation.com

Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, is co-organising the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, held at the Uni of Leeds on 20 May 2026. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Alluvium. Deadline for abstracts: 4 January 2026. CFP here: bacls.org/news/188/

This open letter to COP30 calling for the arts and humanities to be central to responses to the climate crisis chimes with the current research project of our Vice Chancellor’s Independent Research Fellow @hrmilligan.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/op...

Early today, we were treated to an excellent paper by Dr Frankie Dytor from the University of Exeter. It was hosted by our Cultural Currents: Nineteenth to Twentieth Century research group, and the title of Frankie's paper was 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'.

Last week we hosted two excellent research papers:@braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum

We took our first-year Intro to Drama students to the Birmingham Rep theatre last night to see Deafinitely Theatre's production of Eloise Pennycott's play, 'Barrier(s)' - a queer/deaf love story with a rich interweaving of English and BSL. We were also treated to an excellent post-show discussion.

"Any “soft” arts subject such as history, English, theology, foreign languages, teaches how to think critically, research effectively, and deepens your understanding of the world: vital skills in our time of disinformation, cults and AI." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oscar Wilde was born on this day in 1854 🥳 Our own Nick Freeman has written the ‘London’ chapter of the new Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde (OUP), which explores the significance of the city in Wilde’s life and work. Wildeans everywhere will want this in their Christmas stocking.

2/2 Followed by Dr Nick Freeman "Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum In collaboration with @healthhumslboro.bsky.social Wed 29 Oct, 16.15-17.30 - hybrid, DM for Teams link.

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

Last month Barbara Cooke and @wvmierlo.bsky.social spoke at the Modernist Editing symposium (Uni of Reading). Wim drew on his monograph, Scholarly Editing in Perspective, to re-assess the default framework for Scholarly Editions. Barbara reflected on 12 years of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.

So excited that my article 'Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle', co-written with the fantastic @frankiedytor.bsky.social, is out in the world! & in great company with @preraphsrule.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social & more!

If you want to celebrate the launch of Michael Field in Context, save the date for a hybrid launch/roundtable event on Thurs 27 Nov, 18.30-20.00: bads.gold.ac.uk/future-fields

The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

📢📢📢 Calling all poetry readers: if you could spare a few minutes to help @casparwortpoet.bsky.social with his poetry PhD research, that would be excellent!

It was a real pleasure welcoming English and Liberal Arts students to our department today. After a welcome from @justin-waring.bsky.social, @sadiseshiah.bsky.social, Barbara Cooke, Rachael Grew, and our English Committee, some of our academics shared their favourite text to teach! #EscapedAlone

Fantastic to meet prospective students and their families and friends at our Open Day today. There was a real buzz and the sun was shining! ☀️

We are very much looking forward to welcoming prospective students, friends and family to our Open Day today! Come and talk to us at the English stand, listen to our subject presentation, and join a taster seminar.

If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/.... We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche

Love this idea! @lboroenglish.bsky.social students, did you know Ladybird books were originally printed and published in Loughborough? 🐞

Indeed! @wvmierlo.bsky.social has particular interests in Ladybird books.

Two of our academics - @wvmierlo.bsky.social and Dr Barbara Cooke - will be speaking at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) Modernist Editing Symposium on 23 September. More details here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Our own Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has been appointed as a member of the REF 2029 sub-panel for UoA 27: English Language and Literature 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-...

In his new article for @theconversation.com, our own Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, considers the new Netflix adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. Stand by for George Orwell, Angela Carter, Helen Mirren, and plenty of lemon drizzle cake ...

I'm delighted to be chairing the online launch of Alice Meynell's Selected Poems and Essays, in conversation with the editor Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey (yes that one!), Meynell's great-granddaughter - 3 Sept 2025, 7pm: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/selec...

Our own Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, recently wrote for @theconversation.com on the new adaptation of Stephen King's The Life of Chuck: theconversation.com/the-life-of-...

Our BA programme lead, Barbara Cooke, has been finishing her book ('Love and Landscape: Iconic Meeting Places in Classic and Contemporary Literature' with Bodleian Library Publishing), and was able to draw on it for the Jane Austen 250 series for The Conversation theconversation.com/in-jane-aust...

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essenti... New Prof of Public Humanities appointed by Birmingham City. Humanities degrees are 'essential as they help us define what it means to be human. Now is the time to remember what makes us human as we face AI advancement and other challenges.'

An English degree remains an excellent choice for HE study. "The latest Data for English Degree Graduates shows comparable employment and wage outcomes to Business, Law and STEM subjects and higher wage growth over 3 years." universityenglish.ac.uk/we-have-a-ne...

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Learn more about the opportunities for a place on our English courses through Clearing. Our phone line will be open from 8am BST on Thursday 14 August. Register your interest in receiving clearing notifications here: www.lboro.ac.uk/clearing/sub...

An English degree remains an excellent choice for HE study. "The latest Data for English Degree Graduates shows comparable employment and wage outcomes to Business, Law and STEM subjects and higher wage growth over 3 years." universityenglish.ac.uk/we-have-a-ne...

Today marks Emily Brontë's birthday 📚💙 Discover more about Emily in Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social The book conjures a new image of the great writer by looking at her afresh from the vantage point of the new millennium saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #EmilyBronte

‘If our schools are to keep pace with our frenetically changing world, it is surely right that they should maximise the facility for language, which is part of what makes us human.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For Loughborough graduates, you are eligible for a 10% alumni discount, and if you’re alumni with a first class degree, you can combine the alumni with the excellence discount and benefit from a significant 30% discount.