What a line-up! I am most excited about our free conference for secondary English teachers taking place on our Hendon campus at Middlesex University next week.
We have a fantastic group of speakers who will be offering interactive sessions discussing and exploring current research ideas on language, literature and writing, presenting ideas for classroom work, and helping to develop teaching resources.
What more could a teacher want to help them work on AS and A Level English specifications?
Our speakers are all leading researchers with a wide range of teaching experience, interests in pedagogy, and a keen interest in encouraging 'joined-up thinking' about English at all levels in all educational contexts.
From left to right above, our speakers are:
Marina Lambrou, Kingston University
Marina (a Middlesex graduate) is an expert on narrative, discourse analysis and media language. She has a particular interest in personal narratives, including narratives of trauma.
Marcello Giovanelli, University of Nottingham
Marcello's research focuses on cognitive stylistics and applied cognitive linguistics. He also has experience as a school teacher and examiner, and has been involved in a range of projects helping to explore links between school and HE, as well as developing resources to support teachers.
Andrea Macrae, Oxford Brookes University
Andrea works on stylistics, narratology and cognitive poetics, with a special interest in deixis (pronouns and words like here, today, now). She runs the Everyday Deixis website
Chloe Harrison, Coventry University
Chloe has research expertise in cognitive grammar, with a particular interest in contemporary and postmodern literature. She has also developed innovative ways of using technology in teaching.
Jeremy Scott, University of Kent
Jeremy is a writer with research interests in literary stylistics, narrative and narratology, critical linguistic, literary and cultural theory. He has particular interests in fictional technique, literary representations of dialect, and connections between stylistics and teaching creative writing.
Joanna Gavins, University of Sheffield
Jo is a leading researcher in cognitive poetics and in text world theory, which models discourse processing, including in responses to literary texts. She has particular interests in experimental literature and the absurd. She worked with Simon Armitage to organise the Lyric festival from 2011 to 2014 and was Project manager for the catalytic poetry project which you can find out about at the catalytic poetry website
me
I guess you know me by now. . .
Contact me if you'd like more info or anything:
[email protected]
There's a flier here:
2016 Integrating English conference flier
A booking form here:
http://www.integratingenglish.com/#!conference-2016/gci7v
And I'll be sharing the programme here soon.
I can't wait!
Billy
PS This conference has been organised by the Integrating English project. We are, of course, hugely grateful to our sponsors, Middlesex University School of Media and Performing Arts and the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)