Lesbian pulp fiction: then and now

The University of Nottingham welcomes Dr Kaye Mitchell, Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester, to discuss the history of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, the 1950’s paperback publishing phenomenon in the USA.

Tags: equality and diversity, fiction, gay and lesbian, Kaye Mitchell, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2016, literature, people and culture, University of Manchester

Grace Nichols and John Agard – Nottingham Poetry Festival

Grace Nichols and John Agard visit Nottingham Lakeside Arts as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival 2015.

Tags: Grace Nichols, John Agard, literature, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Nottingham Poetry Festival, poetry

American sincerity and good posture: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace

The Department of American and Canadian Studies present ‘American sincerity and good posture: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace’, a lecture from Dr Adam Kelly, University of York.

Tags: Adam Kelly, America, culture, David Foster Wallace, Department of American and Canadian Studies, literature, Stanley Cavell

Liz Lochhead- Somethings Old, Somethings New

From the bittersweet to the rude and raunchy, Liz Lochhead, the National Poet of Scotland, weaves […]

Tags: Department of English, literature, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, poetry

The continuing need for lesbian and gay literature

Professor Gregory Woods, poet and academic, presents ‘The continuing need for lesbian and gay literature’. With an introduction from Dr Abigail Ward, School of English. Free lecture for LGBT History Month, all welcome.

Tags: Abigail Ward, Gregory Woods, LGBT, LGBT History Month, literature, poetry, School of English

“This is Sparta!”: representing Ancient Greece in films and comics

Lynn Fotheringham and Stephen Hodkinson, Department of Classics, present the lecture ‘This is Sparta! Representing Ancient Greece in films and comics’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series. Art by Tomer Hanuka.

Tags: classics, Department of classics, film, literature, Lynn Fotheringham, Popular Culture Lecture Series, Stephen Hodkinson

Free online course – ‘How to Read a Mind’

Led by Professor Peter Stockwell from the School of English, this MOOC offers an introduction to […]

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Tags: course, fiction, How to Read a Mind, language, literature, MOOC, Peter Stockwell, School of English, study

Meet the author of Wash, a novel on American slavery

Join the University of Nottingham’s American & Canadian Studies department for a special Black History Month […]

Tags: author conversation, Black History Month, books, Dept of American and Canadian Studies, equality and diversity, Katie Hamilton, literature, Margaret Wrinkle, novel, Wash, Waterstones

Sadistic, remote or God-like?

Head teachers are sadistic and evil…

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Tags: children's books, headteachers, JK Rowling, literature, Roald Dahl, school leadership, School of Education