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Our Health Humanities colleagues shared some of their research with the VC today, including transcribing Victorian medical archives, cycles of care from the Victorian asylum to post-war care homes, 17C midwifery practices, and early modern plague treatments (a sponge with vinegar on the nose!)

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Quick show and tell this afternoon for the VC @lborouniversity.bsky.social and the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities of some of the materials we use to explore early modern health @lboroenglish.bsky.social

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Loughborough English professor Elaine Hobby has been with Her Majesty the Queen today at the unveiling of a statue of Aphra Behn - the first professional woman writer. The event took place in Behn's home city of Canterbury. Read more: 👇 bit.ly/4bdmmaD

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Here are two photos taken by Prof Clare Hutton who has made the journey to Canterbury today to attend this historic unveiling and to support Prof Hobby.

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The Queen unveils a statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury today, marking a momentous occasion in the recognition of the first full-time professional woman writer in the English language. Loughborough English's Prof Emerita Elaine Hobby has been central to this campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The sunny view from our offices has prompted the sharing of a few lines from a spring poem: Frost-locked all the winter, Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits, What shall make their sap ascend That they may put forth shoots? #ChristinaRossetti

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Listen to Dr Kerry Featherstone of @lboroenglish.bsky.social‬ on 'Take Four Books' for BBC Radio Four. bit.ly/4ib9OTs

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It's here! Equal parts exciting and daunting to share my first monograph is OUT NOW! Please consider ordering to libraries 📚 and I'd also love to connect with people/research groups working on similar topics 📧

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Modernists: I'm chairing this year's MSA award panel for best edition, anthology or essay collection. Nominations for books published in 2023 or 2024 are due on 1 May. The prize money is $1,000. www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin... #msa #modernism #editing #prize #academicpublishing

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Yesterday, we had the great pleasure of hosting the poet, Helen Calcutt. Helen led a creative writing workshop with students from all year groups in the afternoon, and gave a poetry reading in the evening. A wonderful event!

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We’re looking forward to welcoming applicants to our Visit Day today. There are Welcome and Programme talks, taster lectures, and taster seminars for Creative Writing and Liberal Arts, as well as for English. More details here: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/ug-off...

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My book, James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome, is currently on sale. Discounts of 10-40%, depending on the format. #academic #publication #jamesjoyce #modernism #literaryarchives

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CfP alert!📣 We're looking for contributions to Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice, co-edited by @jadefrench.bsky.social, Emily Bell, Paula Maher Martin and I. Send your abstract (250 words) and bio (100 words) to [email protected] by 14 March 2025. CfP below⬇️

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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kerry Featherstone, recording an edition of 'Take Four Books' for BBC Radio Four, in conversation with French novelist Laurent Binet. The episode will air on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 23 Feb at 16.00, and it will be available on BBC Sounds afterwards.

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What can you do with English studies …👀👀⬇️

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We're very proud that the current Loughborough Students' Union president, Rachael Alvey, is one of our graduates! Rachael studied English with Creative Writing for her BA, and stayed on with us to take our fabulous MA in Creative Writing and the Writing Industries. blog.lboro.ac.uk/life/five-mi...

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@jadefrench.bsky.social & @drsarahparker.bsky.social have organised this amazing HYBRID symposium,'Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between' on 7 May, 1-5pm with @amigonidavid.bsky.social @helenkingstone.bsky.social Fatima Borrman, & Helen Small. REGISTER HERE www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

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This was a fantastic event with our students reading extracts of their own creative writing in the genre of the weird and Nick reading from Walter’s stories. A brilliant welcome back and a great start to semester 2!

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This was a fantastic event with our students reading extracts of their own creative writing in the genre of the weird and Nick reading from Walter’s stories. A brilliant welcome back and a great start to semester 2!

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Tuesday, February 25 Public Unveiling of Aphra Behn statue www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-unv... "Five years work come to fruition when a very distinguished person unveils Christine Charlesworth's wonderful statue of the pioneering writer"

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Very much looking forward to “A Weird Welcome Back!” tomorrow evening, where graduates from Nick Freeman’s module The Weird Tale will be reading from Elizabeth Walter’s “Let a Sleeping Witch Lie: Welsh Gothic Stories”, which Nick himself has edited.

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Welcome to week one! Our first years will be taking some of the following: Intro to Creative Writing, Slavery to Black Lives Matter: African American Culture 1840 to Now, Analysing Poetry, Theory Matters: Critiquing Inequalities, How to do things with digital texts, and Introduction to Film.

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English teachers, subject leads,academics, policy makers,members of national organisations, exam boards & other stake holders attended a summit called by the English Association & Shakespeare’s Globe. Recommendations, ideas, approaches to GSCE reform emerged: englishassociation.ac.uk/summit-on-th...

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Delighted to be invited to deliver a keynote at the wonderful Irish Society For Theatre Research conference in Dún Laoghaire next June!😀 istr.ie/ends-of-empi...

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Congratulations to my Doctoral Researcher Rosemary Archer, whose first article - on Margaret Harkness and emotional labour- has just been published!

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Calling all Orlandos! You can now pre-order Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (EUP) in paperback edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-interro...

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Wonderful afternoon yesterday celebrating another PhD success as Rai passed her viva. Her creative critical thesis has been a pleasure to supervise for Catie Gill and me over the last 3 years. @lborouniversity.bsky.social

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Following the centenary conf they hosted last year, @lboroenglish.bsky.social doctoral researcher @coppertapestry.bsky.social & Eleanor Dobson @unibirmingham.bsky.social are editing Marie Corelli in Context:Cultural Currency, Popular Fiction & the Literary Marketplace (@edinburghup.bsky.social 2026)

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@jenniferacooke.bsky.social @linenyhagen.bsky.social gave a talk about their Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities to the Feminist Studies Association on 27 Jan. The photo is from the Loughborough launch. www.routledge.com/Intersection...

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Prof Emerita Elaine Hobby has been campaigning to get a statue of Aphra Behn installed on the streets of Canterbury (where Behn's from). This photo shows the statue at the foundry, but Behn is now nearly in place outside the city’s Beaney Museum and will be unveiled at 11.30 on Tues 25 Feb.

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Our Leverhulme ECR Fellow @jadefrench.bsky.social's first monograph - Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D. (OUP, 2025) - is due to be published on 6 Feb. academic.oup.com/book/59319/c...

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Hello Bluesky! We are the English Department at Loughborough University. You can find out more about us at this link: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng.... Below is a photo taken on a glorious day in May 2024 of some our faculty and finalists.

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