Blog | English Literature | York St John University
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Literature and Creative Writing Student Tom Young reflects on his experience assisting at ‘Satire: Deaths, Births, Legacies.’
Light Night 2018 Volunteer Information
Light Night is a multi-arts and light festival which takes over Leeds city centre on 2 nights in early October. The city’s arts and cultural venues open their doors late into the evening, and artists transform indoor and outdoor spaces into exciting, interactive works of art.
This year’s festival will take place on the evenings of Thursday 4th and Friday 5th October. Volunteers must also be able to attend one of our briefing sessions taking place at 6pm on Wednesday 19th September and 6pm on Monday 24th September.
Being such a large city-wide event, which is increasing in popularity year on year, Light Night relies on a large number of volunteers. The role of Light Night Festival Volunteer will involve a number of different duties, and opportunities may vary depending on what this year’s Light Night priorities are. You may be asked to assist an artist, undertake market research, or work as a visitor assistant.
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Thank you to Anne-Marie Evans and Elodie Duché who have been in touch to let us know about ‘Beyond the Vote: A Festival of Women’s Word and Deeds’, which will be taking place across York, 6th-8th July!
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This year’s YSJU Big Summer Read will be Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad! Everyone can join in — share your experience on social media with #YSJBigSummerRead