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By James Turner
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, James Turner shares his love of Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy.
By Charlotte Stevenson
This week is Banned Books Week, 23-29 September. To mark the occasion, regular writer Charlotte Stevenson asks: Is it ever appropriate to decide what another person should or shouldn’t read?
Thank you to Literature Festivals Manager Gemma Young for getting in touch to tell us about this fantastic forthcoming literary festival. York St John University staff are eligible for 241 tickets on all events. To redeem this wonderful offer, quote the code RHLF241 when calling the box office on 01423 562303.
Continue reading “Raworth’s Harrogate Literature Festival, 18-21 October 2018”
By Erin Byrne
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Erin Byrne shares her love of A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark.
Continue reading “Comfort Reads: Muriel Spark’s A Far Cry From Kensington”
By Charlotte Stevenson
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Charlotte Stevenson shares her love of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.
The ‘Exploring Utopian York’ podcast, written and produced by our Dr Adam Stock and Durham University’s Sarah Lohmann offers a fun and enlightening way to get to know the city of York, and is ideal for new students!
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Our thanks to Dr Keith McDonald, Subject Director for Media and Film, for organising a dedicated welcome event for all students in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy, taking place at Spark this Wednesday.
Continue reading “School of HRP Welcome Event at SPARK, this Wednesday (19 Sept)”
Thank you to Professor Julian Stern for letting us know about this exciting forthcoming symposium. Abstracts from staff and students are invited until the closing date of 31 January 2019. Further information available below.
We asked our wonderful Alumni of successful graduates if they had any advice they wish they could could to their former second-year selves. The results have been amazing, and what we got back is all exceptional advice for any student!
As summer draws to a close, it is time to put away our YSJ Big Summer Read and turn our attention to the novels, plays, poetry and films that we’ll be reading and discussing throughout the new term. However, before we do that, here is a quick round-up of what everyone thought about this year’s Summer Read: Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad!
Thank you to our Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance, Dr Eirini Nedelkopoulou, for letting us know about this exciting forthcoming event on 3 Oct!
Continue reading “Event: Stories of Solitude – Performance, Technology and Digital Overload”
Many thanks to friend of the Literature Programme, Louise, who has gotten in touch to let us know about these exciting forthcoming events!
The inaugural Words Matter Prize has been awarded to BA English Literature student Oscar Williams. The prize recognises outstanding academic achievement by students completing the first year of their degree.
Continue reading “Oscar Williams Wins Our Inaugural Words Matter Prize!”
Literature and Creative Writing Student Tom Young reflects on his experience assisting at ‘Satire: Deaths, Births, Legacies.’