English and Drama students perform at Ashmount School
Students from the English and Drama Department gave an interactive performance of 'Alice in Wonderland', at Ashmount School for young people with special educational needs, as part of an ongoing LSU...
View ArticleEnglish and Drama staff win four Loughborough Academic Awards
Three English and Drama staff members, Dr Nick Freeman, Dr Oli Tearle, and Jen Nicol, won Loughborough Academic Awards at a ceremony organised by Loughborough Students' Union.
View ArticleMichael Pinchbeck's 'Bolero' performed at NEAT festival
'Bolero', written and directed by Loughborough PhD candidate, Michael Pinchbeck, was performed at Nottingham Playhouse on 31 May - 1 June as part of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival...
View ArticleOverton Poetry Prize: Winners Announced
In memory of Professor Bill Overton (1946-2012), the Department of English and Drama offers this prize for a sequence of poems on any subject, up to 300 lines.
View ArticleGuardian League Table rates the department's BA (hons) Publishing &...
The Guardian League Table 2015 rates the Department of English & Drama’s BA (hons) Publishing and English degree 10th in the UK for Journalism, Publishing and Public Relations
View ArticleThe Infectious Legacies of Edgar Allan Poe
This Saturday, Loughborough Town Hall is hosting a fascinating series of talks and readings centred on the writer Edgar Allan Poe by Dr Jennifer Cooke, Dr Nick Freeman and Dr Daniel Watt, Lecturers in...
View ArticleResearch Project: Gendered Transitions from Theatre Education to Work
How and why is the theatre profession gendered? This question is the starting point for a research project being undertaken by Dr Catherine Rees (English and Drama) and Dr Dan Sage (School of Business...
View ArticleAHRC Research Project: 'Filtering the Net'
Dr Adrienne Muir is a co-investigator on an AHRC-funded project that has just been featured on the AHRC’s blog.
View ArticleCalling All Budding Young Poets of the East Midlands
To tie in with National Poetry day on Thursday 3rd October we are launching a Poetry Competition for all Key Stage 3 pupils in the East Midlands
View ArticleIntroducing Sarah Kelly
Loughborough English, Drama and Publishing is proud to announce the arrival of our new Poet in Residence Sarah Kelly.
View ArticleRecent Graduate Accepted to Liverpool Everyman Young Writers
Recent Drama Graduate Samantha O'Rourke has been successfully picked for the Liverpool Everyman Young Writers Programme. The two year programme is an exciting opportunity for young writers to work...
View ArticleIntroducing the Lamplight Press Team 2015
Founded in 2013, Lamplight Press is an exciting, independent publisher servicing creative and academic communities within the East Midlands and further afield. The Press is based at Loughborough...
View ArticleCastoriadis Revisited: Questioning the Radical Imaginary in Contemporary Art...
A Politicized Practice Research Groupevent at Loughborough University WEDNESDAY June 17 2015 10am to 5pm Cope Auditorium Book your place here (£10 full, £5 concessions/students – includes buffet lunch)
View ArticleHamlets Success
PhD student Daniel Tyler directs top level theatre in co-ordination with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Hotel Teatro Theatre Company.
View ArticleWizard of Oz Success
Antoinette Burchill, a second year Ph.D. student has been awarded a prestigious street arts commission for Derby Festé 2015. This award helped her secure HEIF funding from Loughborough University’s...
View ArticleOverton Poetry Launch
Last Wednesday 29 April saw the launch of the Overton Poetry Prize 2014. The launch was a big success with a gathering of around 50 guests from various areas both within the University and externally.
View ArticleEnglish Graduate Shortlisted for Award
School of the Arts, English and Drama graduate Seth Burkett has been shortlisted for Football Book of the Year at the Cross British Sports Book Awards, with the winner set to be announced on Wednesday...
View ArticleSara Read Publishes latest book
Dr Sara Read, Lecturer in English, has published her latest book, Maids, Wives, Widows.
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