Alumni News
Gavin Extence, "The Universe Versus Alex Woods"
One of our former School of English PhD students, Gavin Extence, has just published his first novel, "The Universe Versus Alex Woods." The novel is being promoted as part of "The Waterstones Eleven", their pick of the most promising fiction debuts of 2013.
Lucy Prebble, The Effect (Love is double blind.)
The Effect is a clinical romance from the writer of ENRON former School of English Alumni Lucy Prebble. This funny and moving new play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine. It premiered at the National Theatre in London, under the direction of Rupert Goold. The Effect was awarded the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for the Best New Play on 16 January 2013.
Selina Thompson, Chewing the Fat
Selina Thompson has developed Chewing the Fat during the last year of her English and Theatre degree in 2012. She presented the show on SPILL festival of performance and she received Arts Council funding to develop it further. The result can be seen at the Theatre in the Mill at the University of Bradford between 14 and 16 February 2 2013. (photo for this, attached)
Linguistics Google Prize
Students from the School of English and their teacher Gary Wood have won a Google competition by creating an outstanding online resource for A-Level students using Google Apps.
The new website, AllAboutLinguistics.com, was created by students, with support from staff in the School of English. The aim of the site is to introduce A-Level students to the discipline of linguistics, by deepening their knowledge of language study, helping them with their A-Level studies, and giving them an insight into the range of opportunities a degree in English Language and Linguistics can offer.
Breaking language barriers with poetry
Poetry which has been lost in translation has been given a new lease of life thanks to an award-winning lecturer from the University of Sheffield.
Dr Kaarina Hollo, lecturer in Irish at the University's School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, has been honoured with The Times Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation.
Dr Hollo, who is an expert in the literary culture of early medieval Ireland, was presented with the prestigious award at a special ceremony in London today (13 November 2012) for her translation of Marbhghin 1943: Glaoch ar Liombo (Stillborn 1943: Calling Limbo) from Irish Gaelic into English. The poem, written by Bantry-born author Derry O'Sullivan, is widely considered one of the best Irish-language poems of the 20th century and this is the first time a translation from Irish to English has won the critically acclaimed award.
Read more on: http://www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/translation-award-for-poetry-1.224788
Othello’s Island: Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus(A one-week, noncredit course offered at The Cornaro Institute on Cyprus, 1- 17 March of 2013, and sponsored by The Cornaro Institute and Distance Learning in the School of English at the University of Sheffield)
For more information about the course see: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.214564!/file/Cyprusflyer.pdf |
Blackbox ManifoldBlackbox Manifold is an international online poetry journal based here within School of English, and co-edited by Professor Adam Piette. It is into its ninth issue and will be celebrating its tenth issue next year. It has published poets both experimental and mainstream, famous and emergent names, and is building tesla a reputation as one of the best journals for work that is more narrative, sequence-based, or 'prosaic'. Check it out at http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/ |
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