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Shakespeare scholars celebrate the bards impact on Bollywood
Prominent director Vishal Bhardwaj has been announced as part of the line-up for Indian Shakespeares on Screen, a festival celebrating the influence of England’s most famous cultural icon on the world’s largest film industry.
David Morley wins the Ted Hughes Award for his latest book of poems, ‘The Invisible Gift’
David Morley’s selected Poems, The Invisible Gift (Carcanet) has been chosen as the latest winner of The Poetry Society’s prestigious prize, the Ted Hughes Award for 2015.
World’s first free online course devoted to the exploration of Literature and Mental Health features exclusive in depth interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry and Melvyn Bragg
The course; ‘Literature and mental health: Reading for wellbeing’ features exclusive interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry and Melvyn Bragg who consider how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with times of deep emotional strain in a new free online course at the University of Warwick.
New facts about Queen Elizabeth I revealed like never before in award winning historical volumes
Several hundred manuscripts and early printed texts have been transcribed afresh by over 40 scholars based at the at the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance to produce a series of award winning books entitled, John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources.
University of Warwick lecturer launches unique writer development scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic children's writers
A new writer development scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic children’s writers is seeking applications. Funded by The Arts Council and The Publishers’ Association, the Megaphone scheme is led by Leila Rasheed who is the author of the Chips, Beans and Limousines series, and teaches Writing For Children on the University of Warwick’s MA in Writing.
English professor Catherine Bates awarded English literature prize by the British Academy
Catherine Bates, Research Professor in the Department of English has been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize today by the British Academy.