English teachers! Please consider taking 10-15 mins to help our fab student Abbie Shirley w research on teacher’s views & experiences of setting & mixed ability teaching. Abbie’s identified that your voices are underrepresented & wants to hear from you! forms.gle/SVKhbGjhaCMM8n…

In celebration of my book’s 6 month birthday tomorrow and recent reprint, I’m giving away THREE free copies :) If you’d like one, please retweet/like the tweet! Or nominate yourself or a friend in the comments. I’ll select winners at random next week #teaching #edutwitter

Really chuffed to be in this excellent collection on Pedagogical Stylistics (edited by Sonia Zyngier and Greg Watson)!

So excited for this talk from Dr Chloe Harrison at 3.30 today! Still time to register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/chloe-harris…

Any advice for Abbie on what makes a good blog for teachers? What are your dos and don’ts??

Such lovely praise for our book! Thanks Emma Stott - we’re so glad you found it useful!! #TeamEnglish

The Linguistics at Huddersfield department is an international centre of research excellence, not least in stylistics. The cuts to Arts & Humanities programmes nationally - Huddersfield, Wolverhampton, Roehampton - is devastating. We stand in solidarity with all these colleagues.

Today's the day...leaving Huddersfield after 33 years. Mixed feelings given recent events, but so grateful for the brilliant colleagues I've worked with there and beyond. The work isn't over yet so if you want to find out what I'm upto, you can go to lesleyjeffries.uk 1/2

Excited to have a couple of research publications already in the pipeline for 2023😁 1. '99 Ways to Retell a Story' (forthcoming with Style)

2. A new chapter on 'Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics' (forthcoming in the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Stylistics & featuring an analysis of Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun) theguardian.com/books/2021/feb…

Slightly longer than my usual commute today, just nipping off to Belfast to give this talk on the stylistics of intertextuality this afternoon!

Interested in stylistics, reader response and education? You can get 20% off our Routledge Education Books book 'Studying Fiction' until 1st May via Routledge. routledge.com/Studying-Ficti…

An open letter setting out the importance of linguistics in UK universities. UCGAL: University Council of General and Applied Linguistics linguistics.ac.uk/university-of-…

🚨Announcing PhD funding opportunities in the Department of English🚨 Applications are now open. Please share...

This afternoon I’ve been re-reading ‘Studying Fiction’, a book I wrote with Dr. Jess Mason a few years ago. We ended with this coda/set of reflections-interesting given recent discussions on here around RfP, ‘literary merit’, and so on. Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation National Association for the Teaching of English Team English

So much of this book was informed by the conversations I’ve had with students on this Exploring English Education module 😊

‘Refreshing Grammar made language come alive.’ Refreshing Grammar is a free, easy-going six-week course designed to help you discover what you already know about grammar. Come join us for the 2024 session, open now! jodieclark.com/refreshingcour… @drofletjess

And we are now advertising our second ASRG seminar on 20th November 4-5pm where we welcome back Dr Paula Ghintuiala 🌈 to Aston! Paula's talk will be on the 'split self' in American cinema. Everyone is welcome! PALA Literary Semantics English Association shorturl.at/rlFLH

Teachers: are conspiracy theories a problem in school? Do you hear your students discussing them? If so does it concern you? Do they come up in class? Have you had any training or resources to discuss conspiracies with students? Whatever your experiences I’d love to hear from you