Registration now open for our next 2024-25 ASRG seminar series talk by Alice Haines on the narratorial representation of sleep in 'The Pickwick Papers'. Online, Wednesday 5th February, 4-5pm, all welcome! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/56085aee…

A-level Lang/Lit? You don’t want to miss this: englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/118… Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!

Ok so for Burns Night I’m concocting a Nae Groni:- Hendricks gin Martini rosso Then I say Irn Bru, but my friend here says marmalade. What do you reckon, Twitter?

Robert Burns

I, Robot I, Claudius

Surely not ChatGPT / OpenAI complaining they have been the victims of copyright theft and plagiarism? The category of situational irony is not ‘deep’ enough to do justice to the self-imploding singularity of this.

In association with English & Media Ctr - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (no, really) for our student conference for A-level Lang/Lit englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English School of English Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/hea…

Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with Edinburgh University Press later in the year

In association with English & Media Ctr - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (yes, really) for the UK’s first ever student conference for A-level Lang/Lit. Cheap as chips! And a great line up. Book here: englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

My lovely UG student is investigating differences between GCSE & A-level English Lang curriculums & reasons for the decrease in students studying Eng Lang A-level. If you teach A Level students (of any subject) could you ask them to complete this survey? shorturl.at/ghgXI

Teaching A-level Lang/Lit within a day’s ride of Nottingham? Bring your merry band of students to this! Booking now English & Media Ctr for 1st April. Only £20pp and we’ll feed you too and hand over some free swag englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

Done that lecture, finished that paper, Irish stew has been in for a while, just about to do a soda bread. Here’s a trad playlist of the diddle-ee-dee for St Patrick’s day. Is it too early for a Guinness? open.spotify.com/playlist/2LZWr…

Last chance to book your A-level English students in for our Lang/Lit conference on 1st April here in Nottingham. This is the venue englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

I am accidentally in Newcastle and listening to their cup celebrations. Quite nice to see joy on the faces of fans of these smaller clubs when they occasionally win a trophy. Fair’s fair: congratulations NUFC on equalling the achievement of the mighty #Boro

Here for Nottingham English at Eurovision? We’re over at Bsky

Always a joy to talk to Eddie Nestor MBE on BBC Radio London . Wide ranging this morning: grammar, voice, tone, AI, accent prejudice, Marxist analysis of western society!