Nominate this year’s Big Summer Read!
As the sun blazes over York, it is almost time to begin this year’s Big Summer Read!
Submitted your dissertation? Reaching the end of final year? Download this HD Virtual Background of the Quad and Recreate the Famous YSJU Selfie!
Every year our students pose in our gorgeous quad for to take the famous ‘YSJU Dissertation Selfie’! Unfortunately, this year, the quad (like everything else) is closed due to Covid-19… But fear not! Download this HD Virtual Background and recreate your end of year selfie from the safety of your own home!
“Literature is my Mirror”: Literature Helps Us Confront A Frightening World, Part 2 (YSJ Literature in Lockdown)
In the second of two posts, Level 5 student James Turner reflects on the books that have helped him to navigate the last few years of social and political turmoil and, of course, the global pandemic.
“Literature is my Mirror”: Literature Helps Us Confront A Frightening World, Part 1 (YSJ Literature in Lockdown)
In the first of two posts, Level 5 student James Turner reflects on the books that have helped him to navigate the last few years of social and political turmoil and, of course, the global pandemic.
Literature in Lockdown: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Literature in Lockdown is a special blog series in which our students share what they’re reading whilst face-to-face teaching is suspended at YSJU. In our fourth post, James Turner recommends the work of Haruki Mirakami.
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Autism Awareness
Words Matter will be posting a compilation of student’s work. Over the year as part of Stratus, a society for people on the Autism spectrum, we have being thinking of work for this collection.
Literature in Lockdown: Does studying Literature at YSJU confirm or complicate the canon?
Literature in Lockdown is a special blog series in which our students share what they’re reading whilst face-to-face teaching is suspended at YSJU. In today’s slightly different instalment, first year student Laura Ruston reflects on the texts she’s read so far this semester, and the various ways in which they’ve confirmed or complicated her understanding of the Literary Canon.
Literature in Lockdown: Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life
Literature in Lockdown is a special blog series in which our students share what they’re reading whilst face-to-face teaching is suspended at YSJU. In our third post, recent YSJLit Graduate (of both our undergraduate and postgraduate Literature programmes!) Nicoletta Peddis shares her experience of reading Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life.
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Literature in Lock Down: Malorie Blackman’s Noughts + Crosses in Adaptation
Literature in Lockdown is a special blog series in which our students share what they’re reading whilst face-to-face teaching is suspended at YSJU. In our second post, Molly Routh discusses BBC One’s Adaptation of Noughts + Crosses.
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Literature in Lockdown: Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Literature in Lockdown is a special blog series in which our students share what they’re reading whilst face-to-face teaching is suspended at YSJU. In our first post, Lucy Pettigrew recommends Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
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Words Matter: Literature on Lockdown
As a vital hub of community for staff and students on the Literature programme, let’s keep our Words Matter blog going through the weeks ahead! Here’s how…
Literature Research Showcase 2020, 12 March – Book Your Place!
Prepping for Postgraduate Study, Weds 12 Feb @ Launchpad
A Retrospective: Life on the Literature Programme in 2019!
As a new semester begins, join us for a look back at the many highlights of life on the Literature Programme in 2019, all recorded here on the Words Matter blog!
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