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NEWS FROM THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: 2006-7

This page informs you about the activities of departmental staff and research students. For further details of staff research please see individual staff pages.

September 2007

  • 28 September: Professor Ann Heilmann gave a joint paper on George Moore with Dr Mark Llewellyn (Liverpool) at the ‘Editing the Victorians' conference at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester.
  • 15 September: Sharon Hodgson, a research student in the English Department, was invited to chair the ‘Uncanny Memories' panel at the ‘Victorian Memories' conference held at UCE Birmingham.
  • 10-12 September: Professor Ann Heilmann presented a paper on ‘The Haunting of Henry James' to the ‘Neo-Victorianism: The Politics of Appropriation' conference held at the University of Exeter.

Publications of the month:

  • Martin Arnold, ‘"Lord and protector of the earth and its inhabitants": Poetry, Philology, Politics, and Thor the Thunderer in Denmark and Germany, 1751-1864', in Andrew Wawn, ed., Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T.A. Shippey (Brepols Press, 2007).
  • Jane Thomas, ‘Morris and the Muse: Gender and Aestheticism in William Morris's "Pygmalion and the Image"', in David Latham, ed., Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 172-82.
  • David Wheatley, ‘Bubbling Under', Dublin Review, vol. 28 (Autumn 2007), pp.5-10.

August 2007

  • 30 August to 1 September: Dr Katharine Cockin, Professor Ann Heilmann, Sharon Hodgson, and Dr Catherine Wynne contributed papers on Ellen Terry, George Moore, the Victorian advice book, and Bram Stoker and Henry Irving to the ‘Cultural Industries and Elites (the annual British Association for Victorian Studies) conference at the University of Salford.
  • 22-24 August: On 22 August Dr Cliff Forshaw gave apoetry readingwith Fulcrum editor and Russian poet KatiaKapovich at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. USA, at an event jointly sponsored by Fulcrum, Pierre Menard Gallery and Lame Duck Books. On 24 August he gave a reading at Lumen Arts, Greenfield, New Hampshire, USA
  • 16-21 August: Dr Bethan Jones delivered a paper on ‘Return of Returns: Lawrence's Re-creation of Eastwood in his Late Essays and Fragments' at the D.H. Lawrence conference in Eastwood, Nottingham.
  • 9 August: Professor James Booth was interviewed by BBC ‘Look North' on the subject of Philip Larkin's 85th birthday.

Publication of the month:

  • Mark Llewellyn and Ann Heilmann, ‘George Moore and Literary Censorship: The Textual and Sexual History of "John Norton" and "Hugh Monfert"', English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, vol. 50: 4 (2007), pp.371-92.

July 2007

  • 14 July: Martyn Colebrook co-presented a paper entitled ‘MetaVictorian Transfictions' with Mark Williams from the University of East Anglia at the ‘Vampires Colloquium' at Liverpool John Moores University.
  • 13 July: Dr Cliff Forshaw gave a paper on ‘Wanton Words and Matter Lewd: Interpreting Ovid from the Renaissance to the Present' at the ‘Bodies of Myth: New Perspectives' conference hosted by Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds University. Healsoperformed‘Trans: A Bestiary Englished out of Ovid', based on a sequence of poems from his book Trans, with original musiccomposed and played by Bethan Jones (clarinet and saxophone) and Roddie Harris (guitar).At the same conference Dr Bethan Jones delivered a paper on ‘Crossing the Distance: Multiple Myths in the Poetry of D.H. Lawrence'.
  • 6-7 July: Martyn Colebrook, an MPhil student in the Department, convened and co-organised, with Professor Philip Tew, a joint conference for UKNMFS (United Kingdom Network for Modern Fiction Studies) at Brunel University. The conference was sponsored by the University of Hull andBrunel Universityand attracted a large amount of international delegates from the US, Europe and Australia as well as delegates from the UK. The subject was ‘Millennial Fictions'.

News of the month

Professor Valerie Sanders has been awarded AHRC research leave for the session 2007-8 and a grant of £19,361 for a monograph on The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood contracted with Cambridge University Press.

Publication of the month:

  • Mark Llewellyn and Ann Heilmann (eds), A Past of her Own: History and the Modernist Woman Writer, special issue of Critical Survey, vol. 19: 1 (2007).

May and June 2007

  • 22 June: Martyn Colebrook presented a paper entitled ‘"And will they come from the valleys?" Rachel Trezise and the poisoned chalice of winning prizes' at the ‘New British Fiction' postgraduate conference at the University of Leeds.
  • 15-16 June: Dr Sabine Vanacker delivered a paper on ‘P. D. James and a sense of place: the tower, the hospital, the monastery, the country house' at the ‘The Scene of the Crime: Setting in Modern Crime Fiction' conference at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
  • 14-17 June: Dr Jane Thomas was invited to deliver a paper at the first International Thomas Hardy Conference at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Her paper was entitled ‘"Here is she seems written everywhere": Thomas Hardy's Landscapes of Desire and the Poems of 1912-13'. Speakers at the conference included Professor Christopher Ricks, Dame Professor Gillian Beer, Professor J. Hillis Miller and the Poet Laureate, Professor Andrew Motion. Dr Thomas was part-funded by the British Academy.
  • 5-6 May: Martyn Colebrook, an MPhil student in the Department, attended the J.G. Ballard conferenceat the University of East Anglia, where he presenteda paper entitled‘His Will be Done: J.G. Ballard and Millennial Politics'.

Publications of the month:

  • Cliff Forshaw, David Kennedy, Christopher Reid, and David Wheatley, Architexts (Hull City Council, 2007). This book, commissioned by this year's Humber Mouth Literature Festival, presents a combination of poems and photographs celebrating the architecture of Hull.
  • Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (eds), The Collected Short Stories of George Moore, 5 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007). The individual volumes of this critical edition are: 1. Celibates (ed. AH), 2. Other Short Stories (ed. AH), 3. The Untilled Field (ed. ML), 4. A Story-Teller's Holiday (ed. AH), 5. In Single Strictness (ed. ML).
  • David Wheatley, ‘E.M. Cioran and the Art of Disgrace', Dublin Review, vol. 27 (Summer 2007).

April 2007

  • 28 April: Martyn Colebrook delivered a paper on ‘Death, Real Death, Decay and Detectives: The Gothic as portmanteau in Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon' at the ‘Gothic Science Fiction' conference in Edinburgh.
  • 28 April: Professor Valerie Sanders chaired a session on ‘Writing for Children and Young Adults' at the Lady Margaret Hall Literary Festival, Oxford.
  • 27 April: Nine of the Department's MA students (Lieselotte Bennett, Charlotte Brown, Fiammetta Calzavara, Jacqueline Dillion, Dawn Greenfield, Maggie Maronitis, Laurent Martiny, Dorothy Vinegrad, Sally Widdowson) and six of its research students (Claudia Campancioni, Martyn Colebrook, Alexandra Davies, Joel Gwynne, Sharon Hodgson, Matthew Mitton) contributed to an in-house postgraduate conference, ‘Gender and Authorial Identity: Nineteenth Century to Contemporary'. The keynote speaker was Dr Jessica Cox (University of Wales Lampter). For details see the postgraduate conference website.
  • 25 April: This year's Annual English Lecture was delivered by the internationally pre-eminent feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter, Professor Emeritus of English and Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton, who currently acts as the chair of the judges of the International Man Booker Prize. Professor Showalter spoke on the subject of her latest book, ‘A Jury of Her Peers: A Literary History of American Women Writers'. For more details see the website.
  • 21 April: Professor Valerie Sanders acted as an invited respondent at the conference ‘Harriet Martineau: Subjects and Subjectivities' at the Senate House in London
  • 19-21 April: Dr Catherine Wynne delivered a paper entitled ‘Irving's Faust and Stoker's Dracula: Supernatural Production and Gothic Innovation' at the 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 11-13 April: Research student Sharon Hodgson gave a paper on ‘Nice Girls Don't Wear Rouge!' at the British Women Writers' Association (BWWA) 15th Annual Conference in Lexington, Kentucky.
  • 10 April: Dr Catherine Wynne talked to ‘Woman's Hour' on
    mesmerism and Victorian culture.
  • Dr Jane Thomas has been awarded £400 from the British Academy to deliver a paper at the ‘Hardy at Yale Conference' in Juneand has been invited to direct the Second International Postgraduate Symposium at the International Hardy Conference in June 2008.

News of the month

  • Dr Jason Lawrence has been awarded an 18 months' Leverhulme Research Fellowship (January 2008-June 2009), covering £26,000, for a new book project on ‘Tasso's Afterlives'. The project will involve tracing the posthumous impact of the Italian poet's life and work in the European arts from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
  • Dr Susan Walton's article, ‘Charlotte M. Yonge and the "Historic Harem" of Edward Augustus Freeman', Journal of Victorian Culture, 11.2 (Autumn 2006), was selected as one of three finalist submissions to the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies prize which ‘recognises excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship about any nineteenth-century topic'.Dr Walton is a former PhD student and current Research Associate of the Department.

Publications of the month:

  • Joel Gwynne, ‘Inertia Creeps: Hesitancy in Janet Frame's Short Fiction', Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 29.2 (Spring 2007). Joel is a PhD student in the English Department.
  • Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (eds), Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), xi + 222pp.
  • Matthew Mitton, review of Ana Parejo Vadillo's Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism in Women: A cultural review, vol. 18: 1 (2007), pp.107-10. Matthew is an MPhil student in the English Department.

March 2007:

  • 31 March: Martyn Colebrook delivereda paper entitled ‘Gold the colour of beaten skin; Both With Us and Against Us: Michel Houellebecq, Dambudzo Marechera and Mark Thomas'at the ‘Globalisation and Writing' conference at Bath Spa University.
  • 29-31 March: Dr Helen Baron delivered a paper on ‘A Trio of Triangles: The role of individuals and triangles in relation to death in "The Fox", "The Captain's Doll" and "The Ladybird' at the ‘D.H. Lawrence: Singular or Plural' conference at Paris, Nanterre. Dr Baron, who is writing a book on Lawrence's treatment of death in his short stories, has also been invited to join the team of scholars vetting proposals submitted to the 11th International D. H. Lawrence conference at Eastwood in August 2007.
  • 30-31 March: Professor Ann Heilmann delivered a joint paper with Dr Mark Llewellyn (University of Liverpool) on ‘A Bibliographic Jungle: On Editing George Moore' at the Second International George Moore (‘Across Borders') conference at the University of Lille, France.
  • 16-17 March: Martyn Colebrook, an MPhil student in the department, convened and organised (solely) a joint conference for UKNMFS (United Kingdom Network for Modern Fiction Studies.) at the University of Westminster. The conference was sponsored by the University of Hull and the University of Westminster and attracted a large amount of international delegates from the US, Europe and Australia as well as delegates from the UK. The subject was ‘The Representation of 9/11 in Contemporary Narratives'.
  • Professor Ann Heilmann was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship award (£7,437.6) on behalf of Dr Galia Ofek, who will be visiting the department from August to October 2007.
  • This month saw the launch of a new research seminar series (additional to the Senior Research Seminars and the Creative Writing research seminars) on ‘Literature and Law', convened by Dr Katharine Cockin.

Publication of the month:

Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (guest editors), Political Hystories, special issue of Feminist Review, vol 85: 1 (2007)


February 2007

  • Professor Christopher Reid and Dr David Kennedy will be joining the Creative Writing teaching staff for the next academic year.
  • Congratulations are due to Mary Ahearne and Many Appleyard who were worthy Joint-Winners ofthis year's Larkin Scholarshipfor theMA in Creative Writing(2007).

Publication of the month:

David Wheatley, ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit: Contemporary War and the Non-Combatant Poet', in Tim Kendall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (OUP).


January 2007

  • 26 January: Professor Ann Heilmann delivered a keynote address to the ‘Riding the Third Wave' symposium at Swansea University. The title of her lecture was: ‘Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most feminist of us all? Feminist waves, the return of the repressed, and the meaningfulness of historical categories'.

Publication of the month:

Professor Valerie Sanders, ‘"What do you want to know next?" Charles Kingsley's model of educational fatherhood', in Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century, ed.
Trev Broughton and Helen Rogers (Palgrave, 2007).


December 2006

  • 27-30 December: Professor Ann Heilmann acted as the invited respondent to three papers delivered to the ‘Non-Western Perspectives on the Fin de Siècle' panel at the MLA annual convention hosted by the University of Philadelphia, US. The panel was organised and chaired by Professor Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter, Incoming Presiding Officer of the MLA Division ‘Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century English Literature'. Ann's trip was part-funded by Hull's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Support Fund.
  • 10 December: Martyn Colebrook presented a paper on ‘Welcome to the Cyberdome: David Mitchell's Avant-Garde Fusions' to the ‘Fusion Cultures: Memory, Migration, [Re]mediation, Mobility' conference held at the University of Greenwich.
  • 9 December: Dr Katharine Cockin, in conjunction with research students from the English Department (Claudia Capancioni, Richard Capes, Alexandra Davies, Kate Desforges, Joel Gwynne, Sharon Hodgson, Sonia Snelling), organized a postgraduate conference on the subject ‘Dealing with Primary Sources'. The event was supported by the Roberts Fund and was attended by some 30 research students from a range of universities. Centring on the research-student experience, the conference was designed to develop postgraduates' transferable skills and employability, and to launch a network of postgraduate researchers in the region.
  • 7-9 December: Professor James Booth delivered an invited paper on ‘Poetic Text: Words on the Page or Sounds in Air' at the ‘Varieties of Voice' (Third Annual) Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) at Leuven in Belgium, 7-9 December. At the same conference Dr Cliff Forshaw gave a paper on ‘Sorting the Sheep from the Goats: Barking Satyrs and Some Contemporary Voices'.
  • Dr Lesley Coote's edition of The Canterbury Tales (Wordsworth) has just been utilised by Marcia Williams for her new children's version of Chaucer's classic (published by Walker Books).

Publications of the month:

  • two new books by Dr Martin Arnold: The Vikings: Culture and Conquest (Hambledon Continuum, 2006), 256pp; and The Vikings: Wolves of War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), 160pp.

The Vikings: Culture and Conquest is a reassessment of Viking Age history bringing together recent research into manuscript evidence, archaeology, numismatics and onomastics. It is largely for the benefit of an academic readership and students specialising in the field. The Vikings: Wolves of War is a classroom text aimed at undergraduates in the USA needful of an introduction to the subject;

  • an essay on George Moore's Vain Fortune by Professor Ann Heilmann (in Mary Pierse's George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006).

November 2006

  • 25 November: Professor Valerie Sanders acted as one of four invited panel presenters at the ‘Where Next in Victorian Studies?' day symposium at the University of Leeds.
  • 22 November: Professor Ann Heilmann, Vice-President of the National Conference of University Professors, organised an NCUP conference on the subject of ‘RAE2008: Mentoring and Support of Young Career Researchers' in London. Panellists were drawn from, and represented the views of, current final-year research students, postdoctoral researchers and first-time lecturers, and RAE panel chairs and senior university managers. Speakers included Professor Bill Bruce, Hull's Deputy VC; Professor Susan Castillo (King's College London; a member of the RAE Anglophone sub-panel); Professor Julia Higgins (Imperial College London; chair of the RAE panel ‘Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Physics'); and Professor Celia Wells (Durham University; chair of the RAE Law sub-panel). For further information please view:

For a report published in the Times Higher Educational Supplement on 30 November CLICK HERE. The event was also reported in the Times (5 December 2006).

  • 18-19 November: Martyn Colebrook, an MPhil student in the department, delivered a paper on ‘"The Writer who went down into the Darkness": Derek Raymond's "Factory" Novels' to the ARPF annual conference on ‘Villains, Villainy and Justice' hosted by Liverpool John Moores University.
  • 9-11 November: Dr Veronica O'Mara and Dr Suzanne Paul (a Postdoctoral Assistant in the department) organised an international, AHRC-funded conference on ‘The European Medieval Vernacular Sermon' to celebrate the tenth anniversary of SERMO. This informal group of scholars was set up by Professors Hans-Jochen Schiewer and Volker Mertens in Berlin in 1996 to help facilitate research into the European Medieval Vernacular Sermon through the production of repertoria (or detailed catalogues) of sermons in the different language areas. Since then conferences have taken place throughout Europe (in Turku, Brussels/Antwerp, and Stockholm). The aim of the current conference, the first of its kind to be held in England, was to examine relevant research in the areas of medieval Danish, English, Dutch, German, Italian, and Swedish. Speakers included Dr Jonathan Adams (Copenhagen), Dr Roger Andersson (Stockholm), Willemien van Dijk (Antwerp), Daniel Ermens (Antwerp), Professor Thom Mertens (Antwerp), Dr Stephen Morrison (Poitiers), Dr Riccardo Quinto (Padua), Dr Mary Swan (Leeds), Dr Patricia Stoop (Antwerp), Professor Hans-Jochen Schiewer (Freiburg), and Dr Regina Schiewer (Essen). For the conference programme see ‘Conferences' on the ‘Events' page. For further details, please see the SERMO website.
  • 8 November: Professor Valerie Sanders delivered a paper on ‘Theatrical Fatherhood: Dickens and Macready' to the English research seminar series at the University of Sunderland. (This paper was also presented to Hull's Senior Research Seminar on 30 October.)
  • In November Dr Katharine Cockin began work on the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig database project. Dr Cockin was awarded an AHRC Resource Enhancement Award (£85,752) for this project. This project will provide a fully searchable, web-based database which describes in detail the papers of the Victorian actress, Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and her daughter, the theatre director, Edith Craig (1869-1947). A descriptive catalogue will also be published in book format. The papers recorded in this project are owned by the National Trust at Smallhythe Place, the former home of Ellen Terry. Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928), was one of the first modern stars of the British stage. A contemporary of Eleanora Duse and Sara Bernhardt, she acted opposite Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre. Ellen Terry's daughter, Edith Craig (1869-1947), has been rediscovered as a significant theatre director and women's suffrage activist. Edith Craig's theatre productions, including Paphnutius by Hrotsvit (fl. 900), said to be the first female playwright, were reviewed in national newspapers at home and abroad. Her work, as pageant organiser and director for the British Drama League (BDL) and the Women's Institute, inspired Virginia Woolf's portrait of Miss LaTrobe in Between the Acts (1941). For further information see the ‘Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archives Database Project' on the English Department's ‘Research' page.

October 2006

  • 23 October: Dr Cliff Forshaw presented a paper on ‘Our English Martiall: Sir John Davies, Satire and Flattery' to Hull's Senior English Research Seminar.
  • 21 October: Sharon Hodgson, an MPhil student in the department, delivered a paper on ‘Nice Girls Don't Wear Rouge!' at the ‘Beauty and Ugliness' MIVSS Postgraduate Conference (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar).
  • 17 October: Joel Gwynne gave an invited paper on ‘A Short Discussion of the Problem of Realism, Nationalism and Literary Criticism in New Zealand Short Fiction Over the Past 80 Years ... in the Guise of Demagoguery' at the ‘The View From The Outside/r' conference hosted by the University of Waikaito, New Zealand. Joel's trip was part-funded by Hull's Carl Baron Fund.
  • 14 0ctober: Dr Cliff Forshaw and Dr David Kennedy (who will join the Department in April), together with David Annwn, Chris Brownsword, MattClegg, Alan Halsey, Andy Hirst, Christine Kennedy, Geraldine Monk performed a reading - Top Shelf: Well Stacked - at The Red Deer, Sheffield. The reading celebrated the poetry presses of Sheffield: Broken Compass, Cherry on the Top, Longbarrow, and West House.

Also on 14 October Professor Valerie Sanders presented an invited talk on ‘What the Victorians did for the Novel' to a weekend conference entitled ‘Our Victorian Heritage' at Ely Cathedral.

  • 5 October: ‘Fox', a series of poems by Dr Cliff Forshaw recorded for Tales of the Fox, a CD anthology of poetry produced by Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, was released for National Poetry Day. For further details see Trinity website.
Publications of the month:
  • Joel Gwynne's essay ‘Objects and Simulations in Janet Frame's Short Fiction' in The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly, vol. 6: 3 (2005), pp.30-42. Joel is a PhD student in the department.
  • Dr Patsy Stoneman's Elizabeth Gaskell: second edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), xi + 334pp.

When the first edition of this book appeared in 1987, it was welcomed as ‘the first major full-length feminist study of Gaskell' (Victorian Studies). It remains challenging in its use of modern motherhood theories to read Gaskell. This new edition presents the original text unchanged but adds a substantial critical ‘Afterword' evaluating all the Gaskell criticism from 1985 to 2004 which has a bearing on its argument. The 2006 edition, with updated bibliography and index, will thus bring to a new audience a well-tried classic, ‘a model of feminist criticism' (Year's Work in English Studies), while also offering a uniquely comprehensive overview of current Gaskell studies.


September 2006

  • 16 September: Dr Cliff Forshaw delivered a paper on ‘The Chameleon Muse in the Inns of court: Sir John Davies, John Marston and Everard Guilpin' at The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court Conference, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
  • 7-9 September: Dr Katharine Cockin, Professor Ann Heilmann, Sharon Hodgson, Matthew Mitton, and Professor Valerie Sanders presented papers to the ‘Victorian Cultures in Conflict' (annual) BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) conference at the University of Liverpool.
  • Dr Lesley Coote is currently conducting two pedagogical projects, funded by the English Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy:
  • The first is entitled ‘Towards Criteria for Creative and Innovative Assessment in the English Honours Degree Programme' and the second is part of an ESC ‘E-Advocacy project'. The first of these projects will seek out and analyse examples of creative and innovative teaching and assessment in HE, in order to select what may best be adapted and re-contextualised for the assessment (and delivery) of English Literature. It is hoped that new methodologies can be developed where this is feasible and desirable. Particular attention will be paid to the use of alternative methods of assessment, encompassing written and ‘new' (digital, film and IT) media. Central to the project is the development of assessment criteria, which will enable quantative and qualitative assessment whilst retaining the character and rigour of the honours degree in English Literature, but which will also enable the assessment of any transferable skills involved.
  • The second project is centred upon the technology and utility of the Interactive Whiteboard. At present, Smart- or Activ-boards are widely used in schools and in Sixth-form and Further Education, whilst their deployment in Higher Education learning situations as a whole, and English in particular, is very limited. Given that the IWB provides a forum whereby the interactive, networked computer screen (including access to a VLE) may be linked with digitised material and text in an interactive situation leading to the possible creation of new materials, this represents a ‘lost opportunity' of very large proportions. IWBs exist currently in a situation where HEIs will not invest in the hard- and software unless a convincing case can be made for their use, and lack of availability and expertise prevents significant further development. The project aims to embed IWB skills in the English department at the University of Hull, in order to develop materials, explore and create new possibilities opened up by this potentially ground-breaking equipment. The IWB is a medium in which many different ICT resources and methodologies can come together, so this project will involve the researching and development of other forms of ICT in association with the IWB technology. This potential will then be offered for the use of other practitioners.
  • This month saw the launch of two new MAs in the English Department:
  • The MA in Creative Writing: ‘The University of Hull has a long and distinguished tradition of building bridges between its English Department and writers (from the local area and elsewhere). Its distinguished Creative Writing MA programme is a right and proper development of this connection, and deserves to meet with every success.' (Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and Patron of the Philip Larkin Centre for Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing).
  • The MA in Women, Gender and Literature: Founded in the 1980s (then titled ‘Women and Literature'), this MA was the first of its kind at a British university offering a literature-based approach to women's studies. It has now been redesigned in response to changing trends in the fields of gender studies and women's writing, to give students both sound training in research methods and the opportunity to study texts from a variety of literary genres across different historical periods, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century and the contemporary period.