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This week English at Manchester Met our final year film students have had the opportunity to work with 3 wonderful creative mentors: Esther Lisk-Carew, Sojourner McKenzie and Jengira Begue. We look forward to inviting them back for one-to-ones later in the year!

We're looking forward to welcoming Jenny back next week!

‘Wonderland:Gothic’, the new four-part documentary by Adrian Munsey , airs tonight on Sky Arts at 9 pm. Not to be missed The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies English at Manchester Met vimeo.com/871519793/4054…

Here's Jenny Mitchell catching her work being read in the wild by one of our students English at Manchester Met...

Last night we were honoured to welcome Jenny Mitchell for her first live performance of poems from her new shared pamphlet, Family Name English at Manchester Met Manchester Poetry Library

And Jenny Mitchell was joined by students from the Manchester Writing School Poetry Collective, performing some very moving poems on the topic of Family Name to round off a brilliant day studying Jenny's work 🙌

I LOVE performing in the Poetry Library Manchester Metropolitan Uni and am really excited they've ordered copies of the pamphlet 'Family Name', shared with Zoë Brigley and rmcfarlane63, details below. Many thanks to Colin Bancroft Nine Pens Press ninepens.co.uk/nine-series-1/…

Come and join in the Beyond a Joke: Stand-up for Diversity and Inclusion? discussion Attenborough Arts Centre during Leicester Comedy Festival with the fantastic Joy Carter Dr Ian Brodie and Kavyta Raghunandan. It’s going to be great! Book your free tickets now: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/beyond-…

My book review of UK and Irish TV Comedy has been published in the Journal of Comedy Studies today, and the first 50 downloads are free here: tandfonline.com/eprint/RU4WUHM… #comedy

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1 month and 20,000 words into my sabbatical, and I'm treating myself to starting work on Guz Khan 🥶's #ManLikeMobeen. Hopefully 1 more week and I should have finished this chapter on Policing Multicultural Britain for the book on Race, Racism, and British Screen Comedy 🤞

This will be a must-read for the Goths... and what a beautiful cover!

Any ideas where I can watch Isaac Julien's Territories? BFI player and MUBI don't seem to have access at the moment... I've read so much about it and want to include it in the work I'm writing at the moment...

Check out the next Mixed Bill CFP for a conference on #Comedy and Racial Justice, with keynotes from Raul Perez and Dr Kav_Kay hosted at English at Manchester Met by ManMetMAPS next April 🥳

We need to pay close attention to the normalization of white nationalism and fascism through racist forms of joy and amusement. A white American tradition over the last 2 centuries that was momentarily interrupted by civil rights struggles. This seems like a good place to start

Congratulations 🎊

The only reason to still be on X

As part of Mixed Bill's Comedy and Racial Justice conference, we had a banner making session with the People's History Museum, and I couldn't resist incorporating the wisdom of Mobeen Guz Khan 🥶

Finally, my book, 'Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution', is out. Thanks to everyone, especially to Chloe Germaine, Dr Sarah Ilott, Bodhisattva C, Taryne Jade Taylor, Mark Bould and the two anonymous reviewers for your support. You can order a copy at routledge.com/Nigerian-Specu…

Congratulations! I can't wait to read the final version 🙌