We are celebrating Nottingham's literary legacy with a new interactive map highlighting the people, place and tales that earned our city the title of UNESCO City of Literature. This project was led by Dr Matthew Welton, Associate Professor in Creative Writing. www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/notting...

Congratulations to our very own Prof. Lucy Jones! Her new book, Language and LGBTQ+ Youth, Analysing Marginalised Identities Through an Intersectional Lens, has been shortlisted for the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2026.

And @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social, recently of this parish @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Good to see @uoncsva.bsky.social folk out spreading their research! @em-ehx.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

We’ve had some great proposals for this so far. If you think yours might be better than those, get an abstract to us in the next few hours: deadline today!

Submissions for the Letters Page Vol.6 are open, and close on the 22nd March! Please send your handwritten letter to this address: The Letters Page School of English Trent Building University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD We look forward to reading your submissions.

Out now! @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and I on feminist protest and political change in Poland link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

visited @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social in person today & found my PhD supervisor Jim Moran's new book, Seán O'Casey in Context! So honoured to have a chapter in here, & cannot wait to read the whole book

As we near the end of @ragnasislands.bsky.social, I look back with pride on the last 18 months. Thanks in large part to the core team, @shroomgirl.bsky.social and @matthew-blake.bsky.social, we achieved what we planned and aspects of the project will live on: blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

The Ragna’s Islands project has now come to an end. BUT it is not the end! Read our final blogpost for exciting news about forthcoming publications including the new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social and other resources! blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Looking to continue your stylistics adventure? Join me and @stockwell.bsky.social at the EMC in December for a brand new CPD LangLit course. New Approaches to Teaching A-level Lang/Lit | 15/12/25 www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Are you dreaming of those cooler autumn/winter days? Why not plan ahead and book some LangLit CPD? Starting to teach A-Level Language and Literature | 04/11/25 (N.B. This is a repeat course. If you’re looking for something new, check out the next post!) www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/8a8f...

Few now at @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social will remember Norman Page, but I am sad to hear he has died, aged 92. He was a kind soul. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

It was a pleasure to talk to @zinovievletter.bsky.social about her work earlier this year. We talked about trans politics and representation, modernism, literature, film, archives, Weimar Germany, and much more. @influxpress.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social uonenglish.substack.com/p/fiction-an...

We’re proud to share the news that we’ve been ranked among the world’s top 100 universities in the latest QS World University Rankings. 🎉 Read more at bit.ly/40cSO8u #WeAreUoN #QSWUR2026 #TopUnis

At the Nottinghamshire Names Day, @beccagregs.bsky.social introduces place-names, their origins as descriptions of the world + importance of early spellings. www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/f... @namestudies.bsky.social, @englishplacenames.bsky.social @snsbi.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social

June marks Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 In this post, we're sharing a project by Dr @lucyjones.bsky.social - Words We Live By. This glossary has been produced in collaboration with LGBTQ+ youth groups in England, funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social. www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro... #WeAreUoN #PrideMonth

From advice for your first-year self, to the work you're most proud of, we want your thoughts! Answer as many of the questions as you'd like and have your responses used on our website, social media and displays for fellow and prospective students to see. ➡️ forms.office.com/e/AyLWXy2uAF

Colleague Kate Olley @uonenglish.bsky.social has been looking into Viking Age and Norse pregnancy along with @thehem.bsky.social www.miragenews.com/viking-age-p...

Spotted in the wild: An advance copy of The Literary Lifeline, showcasing bibliotherapy in action! Out in July, this insightful book is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading: Bloomsbury.com/literary-lifeline-9781472583604/

Very pleased to congratulate Amanda Kale on her successful PhD defence today @uonenglish.bsky.social A great memoir and analysis. Thanks to co-examiner Jonathan Taylor, and supervisors @jonmcgregor.bsky.social Thomas Legendre and Violeta Sotirova (not on Bsky so I am shouting into the void!)

Spring on campus @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Come along to the University of Nottingham’s Nottinghamshire Names Day and discover how the names of places and people can tell us about history, languages, landscapes and culture, from ancient times to the present day. Find out more: www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/f...

I couldn't be in better company with this than @queercomrades.bsky.social! Big thanks to @uoninstitute.bsky.social for the recognition of both our work 😀

A huge congratulations to our very own @lucyjones.bsky.social and our Faculty of Arts colleague @queercomrades.bsky.social for jointly winning the Best Public Engagement Award!

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards! 🎉 From shaping policy at different levels, to engaging the public and co-creating sustainable solutions with local communities, every initiative reflects a deep commitment to inclusive impact. 1/n

Join us at 6pm, Wednesday 30 April for this year's Fell-Benedikz Lecture! Professor Guðrún Nordal, Director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, delivers this year's lecture: How will they fare? Runes, manuscripts, books in the digital world. www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

Introducing our new blog The Contemporary Review! We're launching this new blog on contemporary literature and culture by getting Dr Kevin Harvey to sit down to talk with Dr Ben Masters about his brilliant new book, The Flitting.

In Egilsay and Wyre yesterday - the @ragnasislands.bsky.social team.

TFW it's open mic night down at the local but you didn't bring the casio with you

🚀 Exciting news! We've been awarded AHRC Follow-on Funding! 🚀 Partnering with UKHSA, we’ll evaluate the 'Why We Get Vaccinated' campaign, bringing linguistic research into public health messaging. 👥 Svenja Adolphs & Emma McClaughlin (UoN) | Sara Vilar-Lluch (Cardiff) @uonenglish.bsky.social

Today is our conference for students of English Lang/Lit at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social To the StylisticsMobile!

Join us today for The women who WEREn't there: hidden female authorship in the early modern period, a lunchtime lecture for International Women's Day, in LG9 Trent Building, starting at 1pm! Find out more and register: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

Delighted to announce that I passed my viva with minor corrections! #runes #runology #phd

This is a week tomorrow!

A huge congratulations to our very own @lucyjones.bsky.social who's nominated for Best Public Engagement Initiative in the 2025 #InstituteAwards! Lucy has been nominated for the "Words We Live By” project, which you can read about on our website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...

We'll be there with our lovely books!

In collaboration with the University of Leicester, we are delighted to announce the return of the Midlands Viking Symposium! Saturday 17 May 2025, 10am - 5pm Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University of Nottingham Registration: £30 Find out more: nott.ac/midlandsvikingsymposium

I’m delighted to be presenting at the 17th Annual Midlands Viking Symposium in May #mvs17 . Come join us for academic talks, panel discussions and a creative writing workshop! #vikings

Open all undergraduate and postgraduate students. To find out more visit buff.ly/raWZH4g

@birlinn.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social

Ramadan Mubarak to all of our students, staff, alumni and friends observing this holy month. ✨🌙 Join our Chaplaincy team in March to find out more about Ramadan and share a fast-breaking. Find info and booking link at www.nottingham.ac.uk/chaplaincy/e... #WeAreUoN

I really enjoyed working with the Patient Information Forum on this survey analysis. It was so refreshing to hear positive experiences of health communications from patients. Health charities do more than just inform patients—they help them to feel less alone. @uonenglish.bsky.social

Interested in studying a Masters with us? Join our Postgraduate Open Day to learn about our different courses offered at Postgraduate level. When: 26 February 2025, 2 - 3pm Where: B46, Trent Building, University of Nottingham Book your place: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

Happy St Cyril’s Day! C9th inventor of the Glagolitic alphabet

Please can anyone recommend studies using discourse analysis to analyse identity construction in song lyrics? This is to help a dissertation student, who's interested in how Taylor Swift and Madonna position themselves as women in their songs. Thanks in advance!

CALL for EXPRESSION of INTEREST: Special issue of the JESLA Journal (Journal of EuroSLA) "Vocabulary studies and the psychology of language learning: towards greater interdisciplinary collaboration". This ‘rapid response’ call invites abstracts to be considered for inclusion in this issue.

Join us on Wednesday 12 February, 4pm, in the Senate Chamber in Trent Building for Fiction, History, Activism: A Conversation with Juliet Jacques. Juliet is the author of, among other works, Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024). No booking is required.