English & Comparative Literary Studies News
The Ironic Sense of Syria’s War: A Feminist Lens on This Humanitarian Tragedy
We are delighted to share some brilliant news from one of our PGR students - Raad Khair Allah, has successfully published a critical reflection on Syria's war. This important piece was featured in a special issue by the Institute of Advanced Study at Leicester University.
Dr Alice Kelly writes for The Conversation
A soldier’s journey: Alice Kelly, Assistant Professor of Literature and History, writes for The Conversation about how a new World War I memorial can make the war visible to generations of Americans unfamiliar with it – and will help the rest of us remember it anew.
UG Communication from the Director of Student Experience, Dr Jen Baker
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From the Director of Student Experience, Dr Jen Baker: |
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A reminder that we still want UGSSLC reps – we still have vacancies for Q300 First year rep, QW34 hons levels, Exchange student rep, Joint hons (based outside English) rep. The other levels and degrees are full, as is the EDI position. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/sslcadministeredbysslc First meeting is Wednesday of week 4 between 1-2pm and in-person. You also need to attend training with the SU and need to be quite active as reps in garnering feedback throughout term. Please email me by Wednesday 9th October at J.Baker.5@warwick.ac.uk with your details (course / year group) if you want to join the SSLC and please also let me know if you have already gone through the SU nominations process or are contacting me independently
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Thrive™ is an exciting new personal development programme at Warwick, which was co-created with students and launched in autumn 2023. Thrive aims to help increase students’ confidence, resilience and agency, and is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, in any year, studying any subject. For the open programmes, advertised here, students must identify as a woman or non-binary person comfortable in a female centred community. Places are limited to just 30 per programme, so we encourage students to book early to avoid disappointment – bookings are via myAdvantage (search on ‘Thrive’ or use the links from the Thrive webpage). See fantastic feedback from past students here - Student Feedback (warwick.ac.uk) along with powerful impact data. 4 open programmes will be running during 2024-25:
All will take place in person, in The Hub (in Senate House) on campus.
A big part of what Thrive is all about is building a sense of community with our students, through additional opportunities for connection such as the Thrive Celebration event (planned for April 2025). A robust optional mentoring offer has also been built into Thrive to elevate the power of the programme by further supporting students on their personal development journey. A selection of comments from those who attended a Thrive in 2023-24 can be found below. Thrive helped me to feel welcomed into the new community. I can enter the adult world with the courage and the toolkit Thrive provided me with. The guest speakers gave brilliant presentations and talks on topics that I felt really resonated with me. It has encouraged me to acknowledge and value my own strengths. I feel a lot more confident in myself, I've made some brilliant new friends. It was wonderful. I met a community of strong women and I felt very empowered. I particularly enjoyed the session about strengths, as I was then able to use it in a strengths-based job interview I had recently. I was able to connect with such a variety of women from different walks of life. I thoroughly enjoyed the Thrive programme. Hearing from such a large variety of speakers with their own unique experiences made me feel a lot less alone in navigating the challenges of the world. I feel a lot more confident going into social and career-based situations now.
We look forward to seeing you on a Thrive programme sometime. If you have any questions, please reach out to thrive@warwick.ac.uk
Kind Regards, Dr Jen Baker |
Jane Austen Society of America Essay Award
Many congratulations to Almila Dükel, who won second-prize in the essay competition organised by the Jane Austen Society of America, on the topic of 'Jane Austen's Novels: Still Relevant after 200 Years?': https://jasna.org/programs/essay-contest/
Her essay on '“There Is No Enjoyment Like Reading”: Examining Jane Austen’s Relevance Through Her Depictions of Reading’ was awarded second prize. It can be read here: https://jasna.org/publications-2/essay-contest-winning-entries/2024/dukel/
Further success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Congratulations to Siyani Sheth, who will start studying English & Theatre this October for her success at the Edinburgh Fringe with the play ’The Expulsion of Exulansis’, which she not only wrote, directed, and casted, but also acted in. The play has received glowing reviews from both press and audience. As Kate Saffin wrote in ’The Fringe Review’: 'The Expulsion of Exulansis is a powerful piece of new writing telling an important story in a clear, unfussy way by a talented young cast. It is an outstanding production that deserves a wide audience—an unmissable gem of the Fringe.’