We do Victorian Studies, Gender Studies, Scottish Studies, Animal Studies, Linguistic & Cognitive Literary Studies & more. Contact hass-courses-hum@strath.ac.uk
Tonight! @StrathUnion will be hosting Scotland's premier literary magazine GUTTER to launch an issue that features several current Strathclyde students. This event is FREE and open to all!
English and Creative Writing at Strathclyde is overflowing with good news! Sarah Bernstein's novel Study for Obedience is shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while @rodgeglass won the Anne Brown Essay Prize for 'On the Covenant'. 🏅🏆🥂
Congrats to our amazing creative writers!
Thanks @WigtownBookFest & esp to family who set up the Anne Brown Essay Prize in recognition of her work. Just heard my essay 'On the Covenant' is this year's winner. Bit stunned! Well done all the fantastic writers on this shortlist - such strength in the essay form in Scotland
Our Close Read workshops are for anyone who enjoys reading between the lines.
Led by a range of authors, these 90-min events take an in-depth look at some truly amazing works of writing. No prior knowledge of texts required: just a willingness to engage and be inspired.
See 🧵:
A great interview with Strathclyde ECW's own Sarah Bernstein, on the publication of her second novel and the value of 'difficult' or experimental literature -- which our final year CW students get to explore in Sarah's 'New Narratives' module.
theskinny.co.uk/books/featur…
Congratulations to English's Nigel Fabb and Venla Sykäri on their new book on Rhyme: Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song!
Even better, it's free to download! oa.finlit.fi/site/books/e/10…
The winner of the 2022 Ross Roy Medal is Kate Wilson from @UniStrathclyde for her PhD thesis Current Living Places and Future Utopias: Community Writing in Glasgow, 1967-1990.
Congratulations Kate! #SNBA22
CONGRATULATIONS‼️ to history lecturer @davidwilsonhist for wining the @StrathHaSS Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Impact and Innovation: "cultivating ambition and engagement in our students through innovative and bold advances in teaching"
Many congratulations to @StrathclydeCW 's very own @mariaxrose, whose book The Luna Erratum has been shortlisted for the Saltire Awards 2022 for Poetry Book of the Year!
saltiresociety.org.uk/news/t…
Join us for Bloody Chronix! A @BeingHumanFest event where we explore how illustration & comics tell stories of care & chronic illness AND launch our new Zine!
Join us online on 11 Nov @ 1pm to hear from @ingridkyoung @transplanttalks & zine artists!
capturing-chronic-illness.co…
ALT Illustration of a woman with long red hair lying on her back. She is naked, and has flowers growing out of her eyes, mouth, nose and body, and a tree growing out of her stomach. The flowers are red and each one has an organ in it (eyes, kidneys and heart). Image by Lynne Zakhour.
Next week I’m presenting to the @StrathHum seminar — pls come along in-person or virtually! My title: “A Scottish ‘Ulysses’? George Dickson, a Scottish Poet on the Boundary with Modernism’.
26 Oct, 4–5pm, Graham Hills Building, dm me for Zoom link!
Media and Communications, ranking 1st in the UK this year and moving up from 18 @StrathJMC
English, 3rd in the UK from 18th last year, and 2nd in Scotland @Strath_English
History, 9th in the UK from 18th last year, and 2nd in Scotland @StrathHistory
Thrilled that my article on the Palace of Green Porcelain in Wells's The Time Machine is out now in a special issue of Configurations on Science Fiction in Museums:
muse.jhu.edu/article/862962
Some of the wonderful research being done by PGR students at @Strath_English ! Clare's interdisciplinary project straddled Gender Studies and English, looking at canonical novels and extremist online communities.
This week marks the end of all the hard work on my MRes thesis, ‘The Incel Bookclub’, having received confirmation of the acceptance of my minor corrections! 📄🌟
‼️EVENT‼️ Watch our senior lecturer in Creative Writing @rodgeglass talk about the upcoming international Alasdair Gray conference.
A few in-person tickets still remain, so hurry up! Get them here: bit.ly/3Nhqx83@StrathclydeCW@Strath_English
"He spent an entire life's work recording the people and places of Glasgow."
With a month to go until @ImaginedMaking - the 2nd International Alasdair Gray Conference - convener @RodgeGlass talks Gray and his city.
➡️ Online and in-person tickets remain: bit.ly/3Nhqx83