English and Drama Newsletter – October 2018

Welcome to the October 2018 edition of our School of English and Drama newsletter.

Email us to get this sent to you every month: sed-web@qmul.ac.uk

EVENTS

This episode features Wasafiri magazine editor Susheila Nasta, Medieval broadcaster Hetta Howes, podcaster Raifa Rafiq (listen to her on BBC radio here), researcher Emma Shapiro and puppeteer Edie Edmundson.

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Events

UNDERGRADUATE OPEN DAY

Undergraduate Open Day
Saturday 6 October 2018 from 10:00-16:00
QMUL – Mile End

After an exciting first outing we’re excited to welcome the following speakers for our next edition:

Tasters include:

Looking at Atrocity in Graphic
Narratives Charlotta Salmi
Devising from Games Mojisola Adebayo
Gothic magic and science in Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein Markman Ellis
Writing Now: Caryl Churchill Jen Harvie

And don’t miss special performances by our very own theatre company presenting Stage 3 which is an immersive theatre show about the citizenship processes.

See the full taster programme

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

#Frankenreads x QMUL – Celebrate 200 years of Frankenstein on Halloween
Wednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-21:00
ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre QMUL- Mile End

The School of English & Drama at QMUL mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in suitably scary style on Halloween. Join us for a screening of early Frankenstein films and a fancy dress lecture, followed by some scary socialising.

Book a free ticket online

OCTOBER LISTINGS

London Modernism Seminar: Insects and Robots
Saturday 6 October, 11:00-13:00
Senate House, London
Co-organised by our very own Suzanne Hobson (English) this first outing features: Rachel Murray (Bristol), ‘Shell Sense: Modernism and the Insect Body’ Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes), ‘Modernist Machine Women: Robots, Radio and Typewriters’.

Our very own Daniel Oliver (Drama) is involved in these events:
TO YOU TO YOU TO YOU: Love Letters to a (Post)Europe
Friday 5 and Saturday 6 October, 19:00
Artsadmin Toynbee Studios Theatre, London

The venue provides students with a 3×2 ticket deal and we are sharing the code with academics who might be interested in promoting the event among their students and we thought of you. (the booking code is: L0VEL3TTERS).

DICE Festival
Saturday and Sunday 7 October 2018
Camden People’s Theatre, LondonDaniel Oliver (Drama) will host on the Sunday programme.

The Queen Mary Centre For Religion and Literature in English Seminar Series: “W. H. Auden—Bless what there is for being”
Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:00
ArtsOne Room 1.31, QMUL – Mile End

W. H.Auden who had a natural talent “bordering on wizardry” was the poetic voice of the younger generation in the 1930’s. About 1940 he rediscovered the Christian faith. Richard Harries, former Bishop of Oxford, will argue that this took the form of giving Auden a relish for every aspect of life in all its details. This paper comes from Harries’ latest book “Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith”.

S A L O N – LONDON presents: Unknowability and Collaborative Creative/Critical Practice: Ilya Parkins and Lara Haworth
Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-19:00
Tenants’ Hall in the Brunswick Centre

This presentation brings together a feminist scholar and an artist who have worked together on two projects, including a participatory art installation on unknowing. They will discuss how unknowability figures in their own work and what it enables.

QUORUM Drama Seminar: Dominic Johnson
Wednesday 10 October 2018, 18:00
Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne Building, QMUL – Mile End

The work of contemporary artist Anne Bean defies categorisation, encompassing performance art, public interventions, videos, and writings, all pursued as a ‘continuum’. Dominic Johnson explores Bean’s ‘life art’ project in the 1970s and considers her efforts to blur the boundaries between art and life in the context of theoretical writings she was working through at the time.

David James: QMUL English Postgraduate Research Seminar
Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:00-20:00
ArtsOne Lecture Theatre, QMUL – Mile End

We are thrilled to welcome Professor David James (University of Birmingham) who will be talking on: The Practice of Uplift.

Follow QMPGRS on Twitter for updates

The Verbatim Formula: Making Listening Visible
Wednesday 17 October 2018, 17:00-18:30
Senior Common Room, Queen’s Building, QMUL – Mile EndThe Verbatim Formula (TVF) is an AHRC funded participatory performance-based research project based at QMUL and which partners with other universities in London. In TVF, we ask care-experienced young people and care leaver students to share their experiences of higher education.

London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
Friday 19 October 2018, 17:30
Senate House, London

You are warmly invited to join us for the launch of the new series of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar on Friday 19 October 2018. As our guest speaker for this opening event, we are delighted to welcome Marc Porée, Professor of English Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. A renowned scholar, critic and translator, Marc is also Paris Director of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. His talk, entitled A Grammar of Surprise, will be followed by a discussion and wine reception, to which all are invited.

Marx In Bloomsbury
Sunday 21 October 2018, 14:00-15:30
Senate House, London

This walking tour, led by author of Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment (2017), Matthew Ingleby (English), explores Bloomsbury’s links with Marx himself, in this his 200th anniversary year, but also the neighbourhood’s wider relationship to Marxism and socialism more broadly, exploring Bloomsbury’s significance for figures such as the arts and crafts revolutionary William Morris, the socialist feminist Isabella Ford, and the Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James.

PLUS IN EARLY NOVEMBER

New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival at the Barbican
Sunday 4 November 2018
Barbican, London

Inspired by African -American author Octavia Butler’s epigraph New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival is a day of talks, workshops, screenings and feminist discussion at the Barbican features our very own Nisha Ramayya (English).

Writers, artists, academics, poets and publications will explore contemporary feminism through the lens of mythology, discussing topics as varied as the #MeToo movement, occult poetry, bodies and sex work.

See more events coming up

News from the School

Charlotta Salmi (English) has been awarded funding by the British Academy to carry out research on gender-based violence in Nepal. Charlotta uses street art and comics to understand social movements. Read more

Catherine Maxwell (English)’s monograph Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017) has won the 2018 ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) prize for the best book published in the period 2016-17 in the category ‘Literatures in the English Language’ .

Book Published this Month

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism edited by David Duff (English) and featuring Pamela Clemit.

Susheila Nasta (English) will annoucnce SI Leeds prize with Bidisha at the Ilkley Festival on the 3rd October and also doing an event there on Writing post-Windrush with Bidisha and Jeremy Poynting.

Wasafiri magazine (based at QMUL) are announcing the winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize at Marlborough House on the 25th October. All staff invited and the news is that QM will be funding it from 2019 which is Wasafiri’s 35th Birthday year and the 10th year of the prize. Attend the event

See more news on the SED blog

Links

Queen Mary Postcolonial Seminar is starting up again with the following events in September:Work-in-progress Seminar
‘Dinkar’s China Writings: The 1957 Chinese Literary Sphere in Hindi’*
Adhira Mangalagiri, QMUL
4 October, 18:00, ArtsTwo 2.17
*please email a.mangalagiri@qmul.ac.uk for a copy of the paper

Public Lecture
‘Reading for the Planet: Environmental Crisis and World Literature’
Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University
30 October, 18:00, ArtsOne Lecture Theatre

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Our contributions to Being Human Festival including The Last of The London (Nadia Valman – English) are now live for booking. Read our blog post for details

Listen to our Show and Tell #2 Podcast featuring Susheila Nasta (Wasafiri), Raifa Rafiq (Mostly Lit), Hetta Howes (City), Emma Shapiro (Pembroke College Library) and Edie Edmundson (Puppeteer)

Show and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtell18

This episode features Wasafiri magazine editor Susheila Nasta, Medieval broadcaster Hetta Howes, podcaster Raifa Rafiq, researcher Emma Shapiro and puppeteer Edie Edmundson. Full biogs below.

The show is introduced by Beverley Stewart and hosted by Charlie Pullen from the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.

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Charlie Pullen
Charlie Pullen is a PhD candidate and Teaching Associate in English at Queen Mary University of London, where he researches education in the work of various early twentieth-century novelists, including H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Dorothy Richardson. His background is in widening participation and outreach and he writes for Times Higher Education.

Susheila Nasta
Professor Susheila Nasta, Prof of Modern and Contemporary Literature at QMUL, Emerita at Open University is a renowned critic, broadcaster and literary activist. Editor-in-chief at Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, which she founded in 1984, she has published widely on South Asian Britain.
www.wasafiri.org

Hetta Howes
Dr Hetta Howes is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at City, University of London. Her research specialises in women’s devotion in the Middle Ages, and as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker she is committed to sharing that research with a wider audience.

Raifa Rafiq
Raifa Rafiq is a trainee solicitor at one of the leading international law firms in the UK. She is also creator and co-host of the Literature and popular culture podcast Mostly Lit – named by the Guardian and the BBC as one of the top podcasts of 2017.
mostly-lit.com

Emma Shapiro
After graduating with a BA in English and French from Queen Mary, Emma Shapiro was awarded a scholarship to complete an MA in London Studies, where she specialised in the Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon’s London fiction. Following her studies, Emma worked as a voluntary researcher for the Migration Museum project and as the graduate trainee at Pembroke College Library, Cambridge, where she curated an exhibition on the poet and co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Kamau Brathwaite, working in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute.

Edie Edmundson
Edie is a puppeteer and theatre maker who graduated from Drama at QM in 2015 and went on to train at the Curious School of Puppetry. Since then she has worked with Emma Rice at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Puppet Theatre Barge. She also writes and directs her own work, and is co-founder and associate director of Wondering Hands Theatre. She is currently puppeteering in ‘The Butterfly’s Spell’ at the Puppet Theatre Barge and is puppetry director for ‘The Comedy of Errors’ at the RSC.

English and Drama events at Being Human Festival 2018

We’re excited to announce these events around English and Drama featuring our own staff and the work of the Queen Mary Public Engagement team.

Being Human | 15-24 November 2018

Motherhood & Making

Gender pay gaps, precarious work, paltry paternity leave – what does it mean to be a mother working in the creative arts?

Explore the role of motherhood in contemporary society and how it informs the work of writers and artists in this workshop at Museum of Childhood #BeingHUman18

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-human-festival-motherhood-making-tickets-48549438678

Bring your little ones to this one day workshop exploring motherhood & making with workshops with (@LittleArtists_) & child-friendly talks from @CJessCooke ‏

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-human-festival-motherhood-making-tickets-48549438678

Tea’s London Journey

Follow tea’s journey from the docks of the East India Company, via London’s forgotten Chinatown and the warehouses of the East End, to wholesale sites in the City in Tea’s London walking tour

https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/teas-london-journey/

The Last of The London

As night descends on the Whitechapel Road, see the derelict Royal London Hospital building come to life one last time as words and photographic projections evoke the ghosts of its past with our very own Nadia Valman

https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/the-last-of-the-london/

I Write My World!

#IWriteMyWorld family workshop led by with our very own Karina Likorish Quinn allows children and their parents to remember, reflect, and discuss place and memory and write about what it means to them to have heritage from around the world.

https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/i-write-my-world/

Welcome Back Returning Students in 2018/19 – Key Information

Hello returning second and third years as well as new students coming into these years!

Here’s a few things you should know to help you start:

Timetables

Teaching starts on Monday 24 September but remember to look up your timetable here on QMPlus or in the app.

If you have any questions or need help please come and see us in ArtsOne 3rd floor reception or contact us.

#SEDMOVIENIGHT | Tuesday 25 September – 6-8pm | ArtsTwo Foyer and Lecture Theatre

Relax and unwind with your fellow students watching a movie voted for by you! There’s free drinks and snacks and you could win some ace prizes in our raffle.

RSVP on Facebook

Show and Tell | Wednesday 26 September – 6-8pm | ArtsOne Lecture Theatre and Foyer

A new and exciting series of short TED-style talks hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.

Speakers for 26 September:

Ema Boswood: Producer at Marlborough Theatre (Drama graduate)
Jade French: Researcher (English PhD)
James Lamont: TV writer and creator of The Amazing Adventures of Gumball (English graduate)
Zoe McGee: Literature Researcher at QMUL
Jen Harvie: Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Book online

#SEDsummer – Win £25 Voucher for Your Summer Story

Welcome back to the School of English & Drama…

Apart from sitting on a beach or simply melting in the July heatwave here in London, how did you spend your summer? Tell us by email or Tweet / Insta with the hashtag #SEDsummer to enter to win one of two £25 Amazon vouchers.

Whether working 72 hours a week at the Edinburgh Festival, doing admin in PR, starting your own blog, work shadowing at a magazine, shelf-stacking in Sainsbury’s, teaching Theresa May to dance, tour guiding at Buckingham Palace, interning with the Civil Service… whatever you have been up to, we would love to hear from you.

Describe the achievements of your summer in 75 words or less and email it to sed-web@qmul.ac.uk or tag us on Instagram or Twitter @qmulsed and include the hashtag #SEDsummer

2 entries will win a £25 Amazon voucher. Deadline: 5pm on Friday 5 October 2018.

Welcome to New Students 2018 – Useful Links and Where to Go For Help

Where’s my class?

Campus Map

Download it and have an explore yourself to get familiar with the campus with all it’s eccentricities including cemetery and canal.

Eating and going out after class woes?

Secret East London Map

Get to know the local area around Queen Mary and beyond with our secret map.

General worries?

SED Reception

We’re based on the Third Floor of ArtsOne (#37 on campus map), the main entrance is at the back of the building though inside the campus.

Our reception is open 9am-5pm (closed between 1-2pm for lunch).

You can email and call us via the details here but please be patient as we get lots of emails.

When’s my next class?

Timetable

Please use the website link above and then choose the students option from the left and then enter your student number.

You can also use the app. Download here

Listen to our Show and Tell #1 Podcast

Show and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London.

This episode features publishing wizz Sarah Garnham, poet Bridget Minamore and dance artistic director Alex Whitley. Full biogs below.

The show is introduced by Patricia Hamilton, Charlie Pullen and features Rupert Dannreuther from School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.

Rupert Dannreuther
Rupert is responsible for marketing within Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama. He has worked for numerous organisations including Cineworld, Hackney Empire, The Yard Theatre and Rose Bruford College. In his spare time he runs To Do List a website about offbeat things to do in London.
todolist.org.uk

Sarah Garnham
Sarah graduated from QMUL with an English degree in 2016. She now works as a PR Executive in the busy children’s books department at Egmont Publishing and has worked for other publishers including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Canongate.
uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahjanegarnham

Bridget Minamore
Bridget Minamore is a British-Ghanaian writer from south-east London. She is a poet, critic, essayist, and journalist, often writing about pop culture, theatre, race and class. Titanic (Out-Spoken Press), her debut pamphlet of poems on modern love and loss, was published in May 2016.
bridgetminamore.com

Alexander Whitley
Alexander Whitley is a London-based choreographer working at the cutting edge of British contemporary dance. As artistic director of Alexander Whitley Dance Company he has developed a reputation for a bold interdisciplinary approach to dance making. He has also created work for several of the UK’s leading companies including the Royal Ballet, Rambert, Balletboyz, Candoco and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
www.alexanderwhitley.com

Show and Tell – Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL

Show and Tell is a new and exciting series of free inspiring talks about studying and working in the arts and humanities

More information and book online here: showandtellqmul.eventbrite.co.uk – see the full programme below

Featuring short and engaging talks from academic researchers, broadcasters, creative writers, and theatre practitioners. Show and Tell is a celebration of arts and humanities education and the creative industries for those interested in studying or working in literature, theatre, art, media, and culture more broadly. The evening promises to be entertaining and relaxed. Speakers will each deliver a TED-style talk, and these will be followed by a chance for guests to ask questions, before the evening ends with socialising and networking over refreshments. Show and Tell runs on the evenings of the 5, 12, 19, and 26 of September 2018, taking place between 18:00 and 20:00 at the Arts One Building on the Mile End Road of Queen Mary’s Mile End campus.

Everyone is welcome from sixth-form students, new QMUL freshers, alumni, school teachers, researchers and anyone who has a general interest in the arts and humanities.

If you have any questions or would like to register a group please email: showandtell@qmul.ac.uk

Sadly you missed…

Wednesday 5 September

Sarah Garnham: Publicity Executive, Egmont Publishing
Alexander Whitley: Artistic Director of Alexander Whitley Dance Company
Bridget Minamore: British-Ghanaian writer from south-east London.

Wednesday 12 September

Edie Edmundson: Puppeteer at Shakespeare’s Globe (Drama graduate)
Susheila Nasta: Founding Editor at Wasafiri Magazine; Professor of Modern & Contemporary Literature at QMUL & Emeritus at Open University
Raifa Rafiq: co-creator of successful Mostly Lit podcast (English graduate)
Emma Shapiro: Migration Researcher and Archive Specialist
Hetta Howes: Lecturer and Researcher in Medieval Literature at City, University of London

Wednesday 19 September

Shahidha Bari: BBC Broadcaster, Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at QMUL
Mojisola Adebayo: Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at QMUL
Karina Lickorish Quinn: PhD Student in Creative Writing at QMUL
Billy Barrett: Theatre-maker, Breach Theatre and MA Theatre and Performance student

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Wednesday 26 September

Ema Boswood: Producer at Marlborough Theatre (Drama graduate)
Jade French: PhD Student in English at QMUL
James Lamont: TV writer and creator of The Amazing Adventures of Gumball (English graduate)
Zoe McGee: PhD Student in English at QMUL
Jen Harvie: Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance

English and Drama Welcome Week Programme – 17-21 September 2018

Here’s all you need to know about Welcome Week 2018.

We can’t wait to see you this September.

To begin choose your level of study below…

Undergraduate | Master’s | Associate

Add welcome week to your calendar

Please note: events, times and locations are subject to change. Please keep an eye on your QMUL email address once it’s set up for updates.

EVERYTHING IN RED IS COMPULSORY IF YOU ARE STUDYING THE SUBJECT LISTED

UNDERGRADUATE

Monday 17 September 2018

13:00-14:30
School Welcome for all SED first year undergraduates
Mason Lecture Theatre
Bancroft Building

15:00-16:00
Enrolment if haven’t yet enrolled at the weekend (all courses except English or Drama with a modern language)
Octagon
Queen’s Building

Tuesday 18 September 2018

13:00-15:00

Welcome to Drama & Drama Joints
(including English and Drama)
PP1
People’s Palace

Wednesday 19 September 2018

10:00-16:00
QMSU Welcome Fair
SU Hub, Hive, Library Square
Ground, Sports Hall & Qmotion

12:00-13:30
Welcome to English and joint English students
(except English and Drama)
Mason Lecture Theatre
Bancroft Building

13:00-14:15
Enrolment for SED students on Joint English or Drama with a modern language**
Octagon

14:00-16:00
Walking Seminars
with your personal tutor
Details via email

16:00-17:00
English and Drama Welcome Social
Marquee in front of Queen’s Building

18:00-20:00
Show & Tell
Inspiring mini talks
ArtsOne Lecture Theatre

RSVP online via Eventbrite

Thursday 20 September 2018

12:00-13:00
English and History Welcome Seminar
ArtsTwo 3.17
ArtsTwo Building

Plus for Drama Students:

Wednesday 26 September 2018

14:00-14:30
Drama Technical Induction
Pinter Studio
ArtsOne Building

MASTER’S

Wednesday 19 September

14:45-15:15
MA English and Drama Student Enrolment
Octagon

16:00-17:15
Welcome Meetings

English in Graduate Centre, GC601
Drama in Graduate Centre, GC602

17:15-18:00

MA Research Paper Event

English in Graduate Centre, GC601
Drama in Graduate Centre, GC602

18:00-19:00

MA Drinks Reception for English and Drama Students
Marquee in front of Queen’s Building

ASSOCIATES

Monday 17 September

09:00-12:00
International Welcome Programme
People’s Palace, Great Hall

Tuesday 18 September 2018

10.00-11.15
Enrolment for Associate Students
Octagon

Thursday 20 September

11:00-12:00
School Associate Students Welcome
Scape G.14

12:00-13:00
Drama Associates Induction
Scape G.14

Drama at Queen Mary scores 92 per cent for student satisfaction

Overall student satisfaction at Queen Mary University of London’s Department of Drama is at 91.9 per cent, according to the results of the 2018 National Student Survey (NSS).

The 2018 National Student Survey questioned UK undergraduates on various aspects of the student experience, including their overall satisfaction. The results mean that Queen Mary is third for Drama in London and seven points ahead of the average subject score. Satisfaction with teaching also scored highly, 94.6 per cent, three points above the national average.

Find out more about our Drama degree

Join QMSU’s buddy scheme to help your fellow students

English and Drama urgently need more mentors to help students in the upcoming year!

Do your bit to help your fellow students succeed.

Why become a mentor?

As well as the fulfilment of helping new students settle into university you will also:

Improve the sense of community at Queen Mary.
Boost your employability through developing key transferable skills such as communication, organisation and interpersonal skills.
Be eligible for the QM Skills Award.
Help to improve someone else’s time at University and in London through your own experiences.

Download the full role profile

Apply online

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme – Applications Open

Early career researchers seeking support for their application to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme are invited to get in contact with us as soon as possible

Deadline for applications: midday on 14 September 2018

The School of English and Drama invites early career researchers seeking support for their application to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme to get in touch by sending (1) a two-page outline research proposal, (2) a one-page list of publications and (3) a CV to: Dr Huw Marsh, Research Manager, sed-research@qmul.ac.uk, by no later than midday on Friday 14 September 2018. Please state ‘British Academy PDRF’ in the subject line.

This proposal, list of publications and CV should demonstrate:

that you are eligible according to the BA’s criteria and
the excellence of
- your research track record;
- your academic record;
- the publishable research you propose, how you will structure, pursue, and complete it in the time frame, and its importance;
the relevance of QMUL SED to your research and vice versa;
who you would like as a mentor and why.

You are strongly encouraged, before submitting your application and time permitting, to find a mentor, provisionally agree their support, and get some feedback from them on a draft application.

Full scheme details can be found on the British Academy website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships

All outline proposals will be considered by our Directors of Research and those that we give institutional support to will have approximately one month to finalise their online application, due on 17 October, 2018.

English and Drama Newsletter – August 2018

Welcome to the August 2018 edition of our School of English and Drama newsletter.

This month is full of summer fun including our very own Queen Mary Theatre Company (pictured above) at the Edinburgh Fringe. Check out our summer list for more exciting suggestions.

Events

RESULTS DAY/CONFIRMATION

A-level Results Day and Confirmation
Thursday 16 August 2018 from 07:30-19:00
Arts One Lecture Theatre, QMUL – Mile End

If you’ve firmed your offer from us already we can’t wait to welcome you in September – you should hear from us on 16 August! If not there’s time to apply via clearing from now if you have your results or on A-level results day from 07:30.

Call us to discuss your options

HIGHLIGHTS FOR AUGUST

QMTC Edinburgh Previews
Thursday 2 and Friday 3 August, 18:00-20:00
Pinter Studio, ArtsOne, QMUL- Mile End

An early chance to catch previews of the four shows we will be taking to the Fringe this summer! From Green Wing style clowning to a dystopian death drama QMTC have got something for you.

Rosie Vincent: London is Vomit
Friday 3 August 2018, 18:45
Rich Mix London

As part of Rich Mix TAKEOVER, Drama graduate Rosie Vincent is regurgitating her ongoing photography project into a new performance. Comprised of over 200 photographs, London is Vomit continues to explore the sickness of the city whilst celebrating the resilience and endurance of the urban body.

A Long Table: What is family?
Saturday 11 August 2018, 15:00-17:00
Tate Modern

On Saturday 11th August from 3pm – 5pm at the Tate Modern, Lois Weaver will be hosting a Long Table exploring the question, ‘What is Family?’

The Long Table will be a part of Fierce Play: A Family Festival of Live Art Games curated by the Tate. We will discuss what family looks like; what it has been, what it is and what it could be; how we are born into them and how sometimes we create our own. Families are communities often made up of a wide range of ages. We are eager to make this event as intergenerational as possible and for us all to have the chance to share our unique experiences.

The festival is free and open to all. Please come along and join us for an afternoon of discussion.

Shakespeare and Race Across Borders
Friday 17 and Saturday 18 August 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe

Shane Boyle (Drama) will be speaking at this international symposium will bring together scholars from the disciplines of race, Shakespeare, theatre and performance studies to discuss the ways in which race is taught at university, discussed in the critical field and represented in performance.

S A L O N – London presents presents Sophie Seita in conversation with Amy Tobin
Friday 17 August 2018, 19:00-21:00
Fyvie Hall, Regent Street

An evening of experimental women’s writing with Dr Sophie Seita (University of Cambridge) and Dr Amy Tobin (University of Cambridge) from SALON which our very own Susan Rudy (English) heads up.

See all of our events coming up

News from the School

Patrick Flanery (English) has written a piece entitled Punch and Injury for Times Literary Supplement on Jordan Wolfson’s Colored sculpture, now installed at Tate Modern.
Image: Tate photography (Seraphina Neville)

Zara Dinnen (English)’s book The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture The Digital Banal won the “British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize”.

Matthew Ingleby (English) was on a radio show with presenter talking about children’s literature, violence, Bloomsbury, Mary Poppins, Kurt Weill & Tchaikovsky too! ⁦‪Listen here
Catherine Maxwell (English) has written a long read for Aeon on synthetic perfumes and Victorian decadence. Read it here

Nadia Atia (English) is co-editor for Popular Postcolonialisms: Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture which features chapters from our very own Rachael Gilmour and Charlotta Salmi.

See more news on the SED blog

Links

1. Susheila Nasta (English) has been announced as a judge for the SI Leeds Literary Prize.

2. Drama graduates Sal Morton and Chloe Borthwick performed at HYGNights a cabaret. Find out more about the night here.

3. Markman Ellis (English) added his thoughts to an investigation in MUNCHIES by VICE called Why the Hell Is Iced Coffee So Expensive?.

4. Shahidha Bari (English) talks South Asian Theatre, a new crime novel from Belinda Bauer and designer Orla Kiely on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Listen here

English and Drama New Student A-Z

Here’s a potted summary of some key things you need to know about starting your study with us from A to Z.

Accommodation

Offers of housing are usually made for undergraduate and Postgraduate applicants from mid-July onwards.

So don’t worry if you haven’t heard yet you should hear about this soon but if you’re concerned please use the following links to track your application.#

Track your accommodation application
Contact Residences

Find a Flatmate

Housing Services will also be hosting a ‘Find a Flatmate’ event on Tuesday 4 September 2018, where you can meet other applicants to find a suitable rental property or speak to our team of housing advisors, who will be able to provide you with specific advice geared to your housing needs. You will be able to register for this event once you have a Queen Mary Student ID number.

Register here

Contact

Email us at sed-web@qmul.ac.uk, Tweet @qmulSED, Ask a Question in our Facebook Group or call us on +44 (0)20 7882 8910.

We’re here from 9am-5pm on Monday-Friday throughout the summer and beyond.

Dates

Semester 1

17 September – 14 December 2018
Teaching starts 24 September 2018

Semester 2

7 January – 29 March 2019
Bank holidays: 19 and 22 April 2019

Semester 3 – revision week

23 April – 26 April 2019

Semester 3 – examination period

29 April – 7 June 2019
Bank holidays: 6 and 27 May 2019

Enrolment and Pre-Enrolment

Pre-enrolment is done online to verify your details. You should receive an email about this on or after 24 August.

Enrolment can be done from the weekend before welcome week and we have a dedicated session (for everyone except joint students with a modern language) at 3pm on Monday 17 September 2018 in the Octagon.

Freshers’ Facebook Group

Join the Facebook Group here for news, competitions and reminders of key dates etc.

Preparation for Undergraduates

English preparation is just being updated. For Drama please click the link below…

SED

SED is short for School of English and Drama.

Societies

1. Queen Mary Theatre Company organises lots of events, and there are opportunities for everyone to take part (you don’t have to study Drama to join).

2. English Society Organises events, outings and social get togethers for lovers of English literature.

3. Fashion Society A chance to get closer to the fashion industry either for fun or for a future career.

4. Student Media includes CUB magazine, The Print newspaper, Peach magazine for creative writing, poetry and fiction, and other outlets that include radio and TV.

Welcome Week

Welcome Week runs from 17-21 September with lots of activities to help you get started at Queen Mary.

See the full programme here

SED Guide to Summer including Edinburgh Festival and London Events

Here’s a rundown of some great things to do this summer 2018 including events featuring our students, staff and alumni.

London Events

The Refugee Tales | Wednesday 11 July 2018, All day | Various locations

The Refugee Tales, which campaigns against indefinite immigration detention holds an annual walk in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and detainees. The walk, which is in collaboration with people who have experienced the UK asylum system, aims to reclaim the landscape of South East England for the language of welcome.

Taking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a model, the walk is punctuated by contributions en route by writers. On 11 July the walk comes to east London. At Cable Street, Nadia Valman (English) will give a talk on the Battle of Cable Street, and at QMUL, the writer Iain Sinclair will give a lecture called ‘What the world is telling us. And why we won’t listen.’ (Wednesday 11 July, 12 noon, Arts Two Lecture Theatre).

Daniella Harrison at Comedy Lab Sharing | Saturday 21 July 2018, 12pm | Soho Theatre | £5

Participants of the Sketch course have put together new material for this one-off performance.

Nocturnal Creatures | Saturday 21 July, 18:00 onwards | Whitechapel Gallery

Nocturnal Creatures is a new, free contemporary arts festival, bringing together performance, video, sculpture and sound. Originating from Whitechapel Gallery, cultural and historic venues in the vicinity are transformed, opening their doors late into the night.

Rosie Vincent: London is Vomit | Friday 3 August 2018, 18:45 | Rich Mix London

Figs in Wigs at Raze Collective Weekend | Saturday 11 August | Southbank Centre

Drama grads and Guardian favourites Figs in Wigs curate a day of fun on the South Bank.

Make More Festival | Thursday 23-Monday 27 August 2018, various times | Victoria Park

MAKEMORE is London’s first maker festival celebrating all forms of making and doing. Through hands-on creative experiences you can discover what kind of maker you are. Be fuelled by the energy of making, live music and the best in bars and street food. Your entry ticket gets you access to everyone appearing that day with a full programme of live demos, taster sessions and immersive experiences.

Edinburgh Festival

Breach Theatre: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True | 20-26 August 2018 | Underbelly Cowgate

Fringe First winners Breach Theatre’s new show hits the Edinburgh fringe directed by our MA student Billy Barrett. ‘Blending myth, history and contemporary commentary, this is the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.’.

Queen Mary Theatre Company at Edinburgh Fringe | 11-26 August 2018

Our very own Queen Mary Theatre Company (QMTC) are bringing 4 shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August:

A&E: A fast-paced clowning comedy caper, devised with junior doctors and nurses inspired by Michele Gondry and Green Wing.
Deadline: Imagine knowing when you’re going to die, _exactly _when you’re going to die. It would make you live your life to the fullest, right? Enter a world where at 16 you find out your date. A date that determines the rest of your future, a date you can’t escape from.
Same Old Same Oldies: Three Northerners and three Southerners residing in one nursing home. How could they possibly get along? Brimming with awkward disputes and one particular loud mouth amongst the group, these oldies always find something to complain about.
Rat Race: Rat Race is a dark tragicomedy set in a rat cage that is at the center of a badly handled experiment.

Keep an eye out for London previews details 2 and 3 of August! Exact times are still to be confirmed but probably from 6pm!

**Sh*t Theatre: Dollywould | 14-26 August 2018 | Summerhall**

Queen Mary fgaduates and multi award-winning duo Sh!t Theatre return with their 100% sell-out show from 2017. It’s mainly about their love of Dolly Parton and also about cloning, branding, immortality and death.