Strange Blood? Nordic Debates about Belonging and Otherness Dr. Donna McCormack, of the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, tells of a weekend of monstrous activities in Copenhagen, funded by OPSTART, the Nordic Culture Fund. The Monster Network organised an artistic performance and panel discussion which included the visual artist Trine Mee Sook […]
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Final Year Undergraduate Student Jessica Danielle Shenika Madanayake speaks about Comic Con and her dissertation on Poldark. As a third year student doing English Literature with Creative Writing, I found that doing my dissertation on something that I was passionate about opened up possibilities that I could never have imagined. Whilst I only wrote the […]
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Current PhD Creative Writing student Melissa Addey writes about her recent research trip to China. I should have known there would be trouble ahead when I watched a documentary with my husband about Beijing. The camera panned across the cityscape and I recoiled. “It’s so ugly,” I wailed. My husband laughed. “You’ve got 18th century […]
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School of English and Languages graduate Ellie Kerr-Smiley will return to chair a panel at the upcoming Surrey New Writers Festival on 6 May 2017. In this blog post, Ellie writes about her experiences at Surrey and her development as a creative writer. When I first attended The Surrey New Writer’s Festival as a nineteen-year-old […]
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Dr. Donna McCormack (Lecturer in English Literature) speaks about the recent conference she co-organised as the coordinator of the Nordic Network for Gender, Body, Health. This event was funded by the Nordic Culture Fund and the Bergen University Fund, and was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. […]
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Whilst studying my Masters, a well-known screenwriter gave a talk where she described her main task as juggling all the different jobs she had as a result of turning professional; writing was relatively low on the list. A few years later and coming to the end of my PhD in Creative Writing at the University […]
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I am absolutely delighted to see how well both English Literature and Spanish at the University of Surrey have performed in the 2016 National Student Survey. Both English Literature and Spanish have been awarded 100% for overall satisfaction in the most recent survey of final year undergraduate students, achieving number one rankings in their respective […]
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Dr. Donna McCormack (Lecturer in English Literature) speaks about organising an interdisciplinary workshop and doctoral course on the medical humanities and its global, postcolonial and gender contexts. This event was supported by seed funding from the University of Bergen, Norway, and was organised in collaboration universities across the UK, South Africa, Norway and Sweden. It […]
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Dr Allan Johnson (Lecturer in English Literature) writes about working with London playwright Jessica Burgess and director Tom Crowley on the development of a new play supported by the University of Surrey Impact and Engagement Fund. Although many scholars continue to see the rise of esoteric societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden […]
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The 2016 Surrey New Writers Festival (held May 14th, at GLive), was a success not only in terms of sold-out audience numbers, but more importantly because of the amazing atmosphere of creative discussion among the audience, authors, and performers. I designed the Festival to be a boutique event, with the specific intention of building opportunities […]
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