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The English Showcase

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A group of people watching the 2023 English Showcase.

The English Showcase celebrates the research produced by final-year undergraduate and masters students in a friendly, constructive environment.

Students from all disciplines in the school are invited to present any aspect of their work, ranging from dissertations to essays and creative writing.

This year's Showcase was held on 1 May 2024. We welcomed both on-site and Distance Learning students to share the work they're proudest of, from video games to place-names.

 

The English Showcase 2024 (1 May)

10:00 - Arrival and registration (with tea and coffee)

10:20 - Welcome and introduction from Professor Máire ní Fhlathúin, Head of School.

10:30 - Panel 1 (Chair: Emma Horne)

Kevin Hodgson:  Beyond p-values & questionnaires: the importance of mixed methods classroom research and observing behavioural outcomes in SLA motivation research (presenting online)
Sarah Thornley: Queer metaphor (presenting online)
Ben Doyle:  Exploring conflict in the work of D.H Lawrence
Marie Georghiou:  Valleys of medieval England: when a denu becomes a dale (presenting online)

This panel will be followed by a ten minute break.

11.40 - Panel 2 (Chair: Gillian Walters)

Daria Paterek:  'We did not have a systematic issue with harassment- ever': An Examination of Bobby Kotick's Interview In Response To Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Lucile Deslignères:  Ecopoetry: a few poems
Fatima al Moufridji:  The West Meets the Wonders of the East: Early Medieval England’s Perception and Attitude Toward the Foreign Other
Olivia King:  My Little Pony: “Hold her down and hate f**k her” – Violence and Objectification in the Sexualised Discourse of 4Chan’s /mlp/.
(Content warning: discussions of sexual abuse)

This panel will be followed by a one hour break for lunch and an information session on PGT study.

13:40 - Panel 3 (Chair: Hayley Rowe)

Valerie Rowles:  ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: observing constructions of leadership using a corpus linguistics approach (presenting online)
Julia Fernandez:  Anne Brontë’s Epistolary Voice: Unveiling the forgotten sister through her novels and letters (presenting online)
Matthew Hall:  Transparency Carriage – Writing Prompts to Facilitate Creativity

This panel will be followed by a ten minute break.

14:35 - Panel 4 (Chair: Emily Smith)

James Kaye:  Out of the Spaceship and into Faeryland: The Role of Allusion in C. S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength’
Katherine Price:  “He didn’t say anything else.” – A further exploration into the presentation of speech and thought in Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018).
Rhiannon Rumble:  “Is mycology reaching a tipping point?”: The ecoGothic potential of fungi (presenting online)

15:10 - Concluding remarks from Dr Christina Lee followed by a tea and coffee reception (a chance for informal chats with academics and networking).

Full Programme

Post-Showcase Reflection 

Following the 2023 edition of The English Showcase, we asked some of our presenters to delve deeper into their research and develop their ideas further...
 

Past Showcase events

Following the success of the first showcase in 2015, the school has made it an annual event. Read more about past events below:
 

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