Charles Butler’s seventeenth-century book for bee-keepers, Feminine Monarchie (1623), which used his expertise in grammar, rhetoric, and music to advance the ‘scientific’ study of bee emotions in a matriarchal commonwealth, inspired this Leverhulme Trust project, Bee-ing Human, involving a multi-disciplinary team of literary scholars, software engineers, and musicologists, as well as bioenvironmental scientists using contemporary…
Proximities: Literature, Mobility and the Politics of Displacement English Association Monographs: English at the Interface, 12 Culbert, John April 28, 2024 ISBN 9781837644704 Pages 240 Format Hardback Description As the era of high globalization has given way to a time of resurgent nationalisms, the discourse of travel has undergone significant change. The previous era’s…
English Association Report on the ‘State of the Subject’ Professor Antony Rowland FEA In August 2024, we sent a survey to Fellows of the English Association about the changing structures of research within university departments, developments in teaching delivery, the impact of AI and the ‘contraction’ of the discipline. This exercise was a follow-up to…
English Association Report on Responses to the Pandemic (2022) Professor Antony Rowland FEA In August 2022, we sent a survey to Fellows of the English Association and departmental heads (via University English) about the impact of the pandemic on the discipline. Overall, the responses indicate that the advent of Covid-19 has resulted in a diverse…
A working group made up of EA members, led by Professor Robert Eaglestone, the EA’s lead for cross-sector educational policy, put together a response to the government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review call for evidence. In addition to responding to a selection of the 54 detailed questions that made up the call for evidence, the EA…
Join us to continue the conversation from the Autumn 2024 Newsletter Chaired by guest-editors Hollie Barnes-Lomax and Elizabeth Draper, this panel discussion will offer practical tips and tricks for teachers, as well as creating space for debate around the use of technology in the English classroom. We’ll explore topics such as gamification, writing (and thinking) with…
Book recommendations The Wall Giancarlo Macrì and Carolina Zanotti Illustrated by Sacco & Vallarino Nui Nui ISBN 9782889754328 £16.99 The Wall tells the story of a king who notices how his kingdom, once populated by blue faces, is now inhabited by faces of all colours. He decides to go back to the past and separate…
Joint letter from the English Association, the Institute of English Studies, and University English on English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University Dear Professor Thirunamachandran and Dr Turner, On behalf of University English, the English Association, and the Institute of English Studies, the three main national subject organisations for English Language, English Literature, and…