So J K Rowling is having second thoughts about pairing off Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter. She says that it would never work and she ought to have allowed Hermione to marry Harry, but didn’t as she followed…
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The decision to award the TS Eliot poetry prize to Northern Ireland poet Sinéad Morrissey has been greeted with the usual poorly punctuated grumblings about how poetry has lost its way, together with mainly…
Last month, heads of English departments in universities across Australia formed a new peak body to advocate for the discipline of English. In part, the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) group…
When it was revealed this weekend that JK Rowling was the author of a recent critically acclaimed but obscure crime novel - The Cuckoo’s Calling by one Robert Galbraith - it made perfect sense to many…
New software will allow researchers to more accurately estimate the date of when a Medieval text was written. The University…
Kindergarteners aren’t learning enough to ensure long-term reading comprehension. Researchers from the US have found kindergartens…
Welcome to the first essay in our series on how the Australian landscape has been described in literature. We start with an internationally recognised D. H. Lawrence scholar, Christopher Pollnitz, writing…
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of Reading
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Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature, Co-Director, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
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Professor of English and National Teaching Fellow, Birmingham City University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth
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Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in English Literature, 1350-1660, University of Sussex
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