History, Philosophy and Religion Courses

Brookes-based theatre company presents ‘Shadows on the Wall’ in the new Oxford Fringe Festival

Re:Conception Theatre is presenting its newly devised play ‘Shadows on the Wall’ at the Oxford Fringe Festival. Directed by Oxford Brookes’ own Drama Technician, Russell Anderson, with a cast composed of Brookes Drama students, the play will run on three dates … Continue reading →

Nigel Messenger Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence 2013

Dr Niall Munro is this year’s winner of the ‘Nigel Messenger Award for Outstanding Contribution to English Teaching’. Niall started at Brookes in 2006 as a PhD student, having been a teacher in secondary education before that. After a few … Continue reading →

Breakthrough by Brookes Creative Writing Student

Helen Eve graduated from the Brookes Creative Writing MA with Distinction and read from her Young Adult novel, Stella, at the 2012 Annual Showcase: she now has a deal with Macmillan. Watch this space for more news as we get it… Find out more

English and Drama students recently produced Rent, the rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.

The musical, which is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohe`me. tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of the … Continue reading →

Brookes at the Oxford Literary Festival 2013

The Department of English and Modern Languages will once again continue its close relationship with the Oxford Literary Festival, hosting another series of exciting and thought-provoking sessions. The festival runs from Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 March at venues across … Continue reading →

Spectator article explores the work of James Hawes

‘If you want to understand the mood of modern Britain, James Hawes’s novels of middle class fury are not a bad place to start’. The novels of Dr James Hawes, Reader in Creative Writing at Brookes were the subject of … Continue reading →

Congratulations as HSS scholarships awarded

Five Masters students from the Faculty received their scholarship awards certificates at the certificate presentation on Thursday 8 November. Every year scholarship winners are invited to a certificate presentation event hosted by the Graduate School in which Deans from each … Continue reading →

Pupils join Brookes for Mexican Day of the Dead

Sixty pupils from six Oxfordshire Secondary Schools celebrated the Mexican Day of the Dead at Oxford Brookes on Monday (5 November). The event was part of the Routes into Languages South initiative which aims to promote the importance of languages … Continue reading →

Inspiring local writers: popular workshops at Headington Library

Creative writing workshops at Bury Knowle Library (pictured), led by Brookes students, are proving very popular. Students on the Creative Writing MA course are running three workshops open to the public this autumn as part of a new collaboration with the … Continue reading →

JHB and Santander Scholarship winners

Warm congratulations are in order for the winners of the Oxford Brookes ‘John Henry Brookes’ (JHB) Postgraduate Taught Scholarships’ and also to those who received scholarships from international banking group Santander. Students receiving the John Henry Brookes Scholarships are Jacob … Continue reading →

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University Postgraduate Fair

Wednesday 3 July 2013, 4:00 PM

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

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English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2013, 5:00 PM

Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English with speaker Dr Shahidha Bari (Queen Mary, University of London)

Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 0:00 AM

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher conference organised by Oxford Brookes and Reading University in association with the Institute of English Studies, British Academy Literature Week and the Royal Society of Literature

The Chearful Companion: an evening of culture by candlelight in the eighteenth-century home

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 9:00 PM

This interactive event will explore the varied world of eighteenth-century poetic miscellanies, popular collections of verse, prose and music that were the main way in which many ordinary people consumed literature in contemporary parlours and drawing rooms

English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series

Friday 3 May 2013, 5:00 PM

Adolf Hitler's Jumper: Abjection, Evolution and Reading as an Animal with speaker Dr Greg Garrard (Bath Spa University)

Europe Japan Research Centre (EJRC) Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 5:00 PM

Playfully Religious?: Hot springs, souvenirs and entertainment in the Japanese pilgrimage business with speaker Ian Reader, Lancaster University

Europe Japan Research Centre (EJRC) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 5:00 PM

Fair Play in Japan and beyond: Politics and practices of Japanese football with speaker Wolfram Manzenrieter, University of Vienna

University Postgraduate Fair

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 4:00 PM

University-wide postgraduate recruitment fair

Communities at the Periphery: Perceptions and Representations of the French Banlieues

Thursday 4 April 2013, 9:30 AM

Interdisciplinary conference organised by Brookes staff at the Institut Franais, London.

Conference Communities at the Periphery: Perceptions and Representations of the French Banlieues

Thursday 4 April 2013, 9:30 AM

Funded by the AHRC, the Project "Banlieue Network" is organising an interdisciplinary conference under the leadership of Dr Christina Horvath (English and modern Languages) in collaboration with Dr Bruno Levasseur (Roehampton) and Dr Matthew Moran (King's College)