Highlight of my week at Summer School ❤️ Love Romanticism, love archives. And Lynda Pratt told me 20 years ago I'd be good at postgrad study & was so kind to me. Hung onto that through the darkest times & here I am a year on from graduating with a Distinction in my MA 😊

It's been great to be at the Applied English (MA English) online Summer School discussing about Health Communication, narratives and campaigns with @EmmaMcClaughlin and the distance Applied English crew!

Day 4! Becca Gregory is talking to us about ‘Rewilding the namescape’ - wildcats and beavers and bears, oh my!

Presentation time! Scenario 2 - Erosion.

Now, to the coast!

Continuing with our nature-day theme, Peter Stockwell is talking to us about ‘Grammar in the Wild’.

We’re now beginning our nature poetry walk with Matthew Welton over at Wollaton Hall! Very much looking forward to this!

This was fabulous! So happy this talk was open to everyone and that our Summer School attendees could join you.

Fifth (and sadly final) day of Applied English (MA English) online Distance-Learning Summer School 2024 is off to a good start with Chris Collins' session on Ireland and Martin McDonagh's Theatre

Ending the Summer School programme with some top-quality puns. After all, there's a lot hinging on how cool this session is... Anyway, here's Dr Kevin Harvey, whose rather more serious topic is 'Exploring the discourse of age and ageing'

That's it! Another Summer School over. We've had such a brilliant time - huge thanks to our Nottingham English colleagues for running engaging and inspiring sessions all week, and to our students for (as ever) throwing themselves into it all with gusto! Time for a little lie down... 😴

It was brilliant to hear about Louise Mullany's new book at our Summer School last week!

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Huge congratulations to our recent graduate Carolien Wielockx, whose poetry has just been published in the journal New Writing. Carolien's work was undertaken as a creative-critical hexapod project in the third phase of her MA degree. Check it out now: tandfonline.com/eprint/BZHVT7N…

Taylor Swift has cultivated a global brand that might seem incompatible with the darkness, abjection and monstrosity of gothic fiction. Dr Matthew Green Nottingham English writes for The Conversation ow.ly/SjuP50SH3ww