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Work opportunities for SELLL students

We are taking applications for our Student Leadership Programme, Student Blogger positions and SELLL Café Assistant positions. Hear from current students about what they have loved working with us this year and find more details and how to apply.

Dr Tina Gharavi's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day

SELLL's Dr Tina Gharavi's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day finishes principle photography

Shortlist announced for the James Berry Poetry Prize 2024

The James Berry Poetry Prize, which assists poets of colour with mentoring to help them to develop their work and publication with Bloodaxe Books, has announced the 2024 shortlist.

SELLL's Zoe Cooper appointed Writer-in-Residence to the Royal Shakespeare Company

We are delighted to announce that our own Dr Zoe Cooper, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Script, will be joining North-East based Stewart Pringle as writers-in-residence at the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

Expanding literary horizons

This week we begin a brand-new series of events as part of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA).

SELLL graduate is Olympic gold medallist

English Literature graduate Lola Anderson wins gold in the women’s quadruple sculls at Paris 2024

Work opportunities for SELLL students

We are taking applications for our Student Leadership Programme, Student Blogger positions and SELLL Café Assistant positions. Hear from current students about what they have loved working with us this year and find more details and how to apply.

Keynote at the 7th International Conference on the Future of Women

Dr Stacy Gillis delivers the keynote at an international gathering focussed on women's lives, experiences and opportunities.

National Archives funding success for project challenging gender bias in the archive

Funded by a National Archives Research and Innovation grant, Dr Stacy Gillis is working with Robinson Library Special Collections to explore gender bias in archive catalogues

Northanger Abbey, a New Play by Zoe Cooper

Zoe Cooper’s new play adapts Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and she takes Austen’s protagonist, Catherine Morland, on a whole new journey.

Leverhulme Success for Linguistics

Professor Michelle Sheehan's project asks wide-reaching questions about how language and meaning are related.

Why has the Angel of the North become a place of memorial?

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Anne Whitehead, wants to find out more about why the Angel of The North holds so much emotional value for people.

Dr Meiko O'Halloran to give a talk at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome

Lives ‘Writ in Water’: Keats’s Unwritten Epic - Dr Meiko O'Halloran

The global reputation of our scholars recognised

Professor Neelam Srivastava will join students and staff in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University, China as a visiting scholar in September

Work opportunities for SELLL students

We are taking applications for our Student Leadership Programme, Student Blogger positions and SELLL Café Assistant positions. Hear from current students about what they have loved working with us this year and find more details and how to apply.

Listen to this story! Exhibition

Listen to this story! is an exhibition based on the research of SELLL's British Academy Global Professor, Karen Sands-O'Connor, and is about the struggles and successes of Black British authors in representing their world.

Two colleagues win prestigious Leverhulme Prizes

We are so proud of our colleagues Professor Preti Taneja and Dr Joseph Hone for being awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes for their outstanding research.

SELLL Induction 2022 Information Available

The UG and PG SELLL Induction page for 2022 is now available.