Here’s 20 things (in no particular order) that are happening in 2020 in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London
- Aoife Monks (Drama) becomes the Arts and Culture Lead for QMUL in 2020.
- Caoimhe McAvinchey (Drama) has been awarded AHRC grant funding to work on a project around Clean Break.
- Our new Head of School is Catherine Silverstone (Drama).
- QMUL English graduate and contributor to our Poetry module, Caleb Femi will publish his new book Poor in July 2020.
- The New English Programme Launches – Discover the new programme involves in this PDF.
- We welcome Dominic Johnson (Drama) as our new Head of Drama from July 2020.
- New Suite of MA Courses including MA English Literature: Modern and Contemporary and MA English Literature: Literature and Culture 1700-1900 .
- New module London Global runs for the first time in 2020.
- Drama in Education module is launched and led by Maggie Inchley working with schools.
- Joel Grossman (English) will be hosting a widening participation event aimed at young BAME+ men.
- Sarah Bartley joins the Drama Department.
- Swati Arora also joins the Drama Department.
- Patrick Flanery‘s The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption is released on paperback on 6 February 2020.
- Show and Tell podcast platform continues on 5 February 2020.
- Careers events include an LGBT+ event (12 Feb), a Media Summit (19 Feb) and an event on Law Careers for non-Law students (13 Mar TBC).
- Jaclyn Rajsic is the co-organiser of Brut in New Troy, which takes place from 26-29 June.
- We will be at English Shared Futures conference from 26-28 June 2020.
- Nadia Valman (English) continues her Leverhulme Research fellowship to produce the first literary history of east London – the site where key national questions such as social mobility, immigration, and urban regeneration are repeatedly contested.
- We are launching our Higher Education Achievement Record Awards for Arts intern and Student publication to give students extra activities on their degree record.
- We welcome Eoin Bentick to our English department in January 2020.
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