Don't forget to complete the #NSS! It's open to all final year students until April 30th. You'll be entered into the UoL's prize draw to win one of the following: £50 Union Brew voucher £50 Greggs voucher £100 Amazon voucher £100 Red Letter Day voucher www.thestudentsurvey.com

Roll Up! Roll Up! Big Top Festival brings circus magic to Southport, 2–3 May. @livunienglish.bsky.social's Dr Eleanor Lybeck will be performing her clown show, Wild Laughter: Fun and the Prom, specially commissioned for the festival. It's free and fun for all ages! visitsouthport.com/bigtop

The Centre for New and International Writing has a number of great events coming up over the next few months. Details below. You can book via: www.liverpool.ac.uk/new-and-inte...

Interested in the history of British Chinese food? In May, Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social from @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social is giving a tallk as part of @pintofscience.uk based on her research into British Chinese food coverage in newspapers. Details ⬇️

Interested in spoken grammar? An article by our department's Dr Chris Jones and Dr David Oakey is in the top ten most-cited papers published by TESOL Quarterly in 2024. @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social Read here, open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dr Hannah Greenstreet's new play, Four Letter Words, premieres this week at the @liveveryplay.bsky.social 16th-18th April. A coming-of-age story set in the world of queer online kink, it explores finding connection and belonging during lockdown. Book now! everymanplayhouse.com/event/four-l...

@livunienglish.bsky.social PhD, Saul Leslie, will be in conversation with CNIW co-director Dr David Hering on Tuesday 21st April, discussing his new book. Saul's novel explores the dizzyingly over-lit world of austerity Britain, in all its comedy and menace. Book tickets here: shorturl.at/DohCA

Dr Hannah Greenstreet and Dr Alex Coupe are celebrating their book launch with a roundtable on 6th May, 3-4:30pm, in the SoTA library/online. They bring together leading scholars and practitioners to explore what feminist performance can offer at a time of political, social, and cultural upheaval.

Don't forget to complete the #NSS! It's open to all final year @livunienglish.bsky.social students and you will be entered into the UoL's prize draw to win one of the following: £50 Union Brew voucher £50 Greggs voucher £100 Amazon voucher £100 Red Letter Day voucher www.thestudentsurvey.com

Dr Alex Broadhead's new book, The Language of Early English Dialect Literature, is out this week with Palgrave Macmillan. It's the first monograph devoted to English dialect literature published between the 16th and 19th centuries. Check it out at: link.springer.com/book/9783032...

University of Liverpool books of the month for March includes a release from our department's Professor Siobhan Chapman. Details below ⬇️@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Dr Hannah Greenstreet's new play, Four Letter Words, premiers at the @liveveryplay.bsky.social 16th-18th April. A coming-of-age story set in the world of queer online kink, it explores finding connection and belonging during lockdown. Book tickets now! everymanplayhouse.com/event/four-l...

Great to see our English department in the top 100 QS subject rankings for English Language and Literature, one of 12 subject areas in the [email protected] @sotauol.bsky.social Details ⬇️

👁️‍🗨️ Take a tour of avant-garde art collector Gertrude Stein's home with Dr Sophie Oliver, Senior Lecturer in @livunienglish.bsky.social and BBC/UKRI New Generation Thinker. Listen below 📻

Some good news for readers/fans/researchers of Roger McGough's poetry.The University of Liverpool has acquired his archive. Details ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Don't forget to complete the #NSS! It's open to all final year @livunienglish.bsky.social students and you will be entered into the UoL's prize draw to win one of the following: £50 Union Brew voucher £50 Greggs voucher £100 Amazon voucher £100 Red Letter Day voucher Scan the QR code below:

3 @livunienglish.bsky.social PhD students have published new creative work this month: Jennifer Lee Tsai, 'Melete' Rebecca Philipson, 'How To Get Away With Murder' Saul Leslie, 'A Working Title I Want to Change' All are out now! More info here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/new-and-inte...

Dr Alex Coupe is leading a roundtable discussion on the Everyman's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. It's free and no booking required! Join him on 14th May, 5:30-7pm @ the Everyman Playhouse. More info here: everymanplayhouse.com/event/the-as...

💐 Don't buy those flowers just yet! Nicely in time for Mother's Day, take a look at some of the worst mums in literature, as chosen by a list of experts, including @livunienglish.bsky.social's Faye Lynch

New publication from Dr Chris Jones of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Want to know some basics about spoken grammar? Details below⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

The #NSS gives you the chance to tell us - individually, but completely anonymously - about your experience at Liverpool: what you've loved about studying @livunienglish.bsky.social and how we can improve things for those students who, one day, will be where you are now. www.thestudentsurvey.com

Skills Week runs next week! Check emails/module homepages for events relevant to your year group and don't miss out on the English Prospects Employer Panel, Thursday 12th March, 1-3pm in the SoTA library. Scan the QR code below to join.

🔎 Exciting news as the Uni unveils its new-look research repository, where academics can share their work and anyone can access it for free! Great for professional or amateur researchers alike. Learn more and start exploring here news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/03/04/u...

Any final year UG student who completes the #NSS will be entered automatically into the University's prize draw to win one of the following: £50 Union Brew voucher £50 Greggs voucher £100 Amazon voucher £100 Red Letter Day voucher Fill it out now: www.thestudentsurvey.com It's anonymous!

New co-authored book chapter from @sofialampro.bsky.social of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Open access. Details⬇️

Final year UGs can follow the QR code below to complete the #NationalStudentSurvey2026. For every student who completes the survey UoL has committed to donating £1 to two charities: #Zoe’sPlace, and @sheltercharity.bsky.social. #NSS2026 is anonymous and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

The National Student Survey is open! If you’re a final year undergraduate, tell us what you think about your @livunienglish.bsky.social experience by taking part: www.thestudentsurvey.com The survey is completely anonymous and only takes 5-10 mins to complete. #NSS2026

@livunienglish.bsky.social UG student Eli Tomlin-Kent has written a lyric essay on 'The Heart as Metaphor' for the Honest Ulsterman. Eli's essay discusses the symbolism of the organ, and is inspired by his personal experience of a heart attack at 21. Go read it here: humag.co/features/the...

We're getting ready for a new semester - our first event will be Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), ‘Imagining Alternative Arctics’: Literature and the Legacy of Polar Science from the 1890s to the Present - Wed 25 Feb, 16.00-17.00, in person and online via Teams (DM for link).

How do bilingual brains balance reason and emotion? 🧠 New research, funded by the British Academy, explores whether language can influence what we judge to be right or wrong. Find out more: https://bit.ly/462uqcP

@livunienglish.bsky.social doctoral candidate Natalie Wall has written for @theguardian.com about the bizarre brand collaborations with the new Wuthering Heights film (which includes a smoothie bowl...). Read Natalie's article here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... #wutheringheights

New book chapter from Dr Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social on gender-inclusive language. Details ⬇️

Dr Alex Broadhead will be giving an online talk on English Dialect Literature to the @folkloresociety.bsky.social on 27th January. Tickets are £6 (or £4 if you're a member). Here's a link: www.folklore-society.com/event/online...

#EnglishCreates: Futures kicks off with the first in a series of brilliantly insightful blogs by Professor Ralph Pite on the subject of English Studies and 'environments' These will prove how important English studies are in the current polycrisis: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Interested in taking an MA in our department from September 2026?? Have a look at these new scholarships⬇️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

New publication from Dr Nektaria Kourtali [email protected] @sotauol.bsky.social. Her study on Greek children’s foreign language anxiety reveals how modality of interaction shapes learners’ affective experiences. Details⬇️ www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

For those interested in publishing, our department is offering a new MA Publishing from September 2026. More information: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/publ...

Today is #nationallinguisticsday! To celebrate, here is a great talk from from our late colleague Professor Michael Hoey at IATEFL 2014, on lexical priming. One example of how our dept. applies linguistics to English language research. Enjoy! @sotauol.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlp5...

Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️

🎬 Students met legendary film critic Mark Kermode at the University of Liverpool for an honest, entertaining and wide-ranging Q&A as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival’s 10-year celebration. 🎦🍿 Read more here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/news...

Swing by for this free reading by novelist Joanna Kavenna on Wednesday at the School of the Arts library, 19-23 Abercromby Square — you can sign up here @livunienglish.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv...

🏅Emeritus Professor Kelvin Everest will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, 20th November, at Keats House in Rome to mark his being the recipient of the 'Outstanding Lifetime Achievement' award of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association📣

To celebrate the publication of her book, Radical Realisms in Contemporary Theatre in Britain, Lecturer Dr Hannah Greenstreet @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social recommends 10 fantastic feminist plays from the last 10 years in @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

Interested in studying an MA in English Language, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, Creative Writing or English Literature in the department of English? Join a session during the postgraduate online open week, starting 17th November. Full details and registration ⬇️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8 Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

🚀 Do you have a world-changing AI-driven research idea? Then consider applying for our Research Fellowship programme. Develop your vision with a 5 year fellowship, with tailored support, and a permanent post at completion. Apply by 1 Dec 2025 👉 liverpool.ac.uk/research/fellowships

Thinking of your next career move? Join our Postgraduate Online Open Week 17-21 November! 📚 Attend live sessions and get your questions answered from the comfort of your own home. Register here 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate... @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

Grant success for two @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social colleagues @eltresearch.bsky.social and Dr David Oakey, working in the field of applied linguistics. Congratulations! Details⬇️

Professor Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social is doing a poetry reading in Paris 🇫🇷 November 7th, 6-8pm More information is available here (en français): www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-rea...