News | Friday, 29th May 2020
CELL Recent News
Read below to find out about recent news from the Centre for Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University.
English Shared Futures
Planning for e-activities for the replacement ‘English: Shared Futures’ weekend, June 26th-28th, is underway, including podcasts with the plenaries, publishers and ‘Fringe’ performers, interviews with the chair of the REF panel and ‘salonistas’, and updates on the disciplinary response to C-19 and the delayed REF period (Antony Rowland). Find out more here.
Centre for Place Writing E-Launch
June 12th 2020. (Rachel Lichtenstein and David Cooper)
In response to the Covid-19 crisis the Place Writing Centre has commissioned some of the greatest thinkers, artists and writers in the field to examine what 'place' means to them in 2020. Contributions for PLACE 2020 include new work from filmmaker Andrew Kotting, writers Iain Sinclair, Amy Liptrot, Ken Worpole and many others. The site will launch on 12th June 2020 and is expected to gather considerable press coverage.
British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant (£8000)
Professor Dale Townshend has received a British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant for a current monograph project on MG Lewis.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Eighteenth-Century Studies (one month)
Professor Dale Townshend has received the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California.
Poetry Book Society
Andrew McMillan will be hosting the Poetry Book Society online bookclub for lockdown, doing bi-weekly broadcasts about poetry.
Write Where We Are Now
Andrew McMillan has written for The Conversation promoting the ‘Write Where We Are Now’ project, as well as appearing on BBC News. See Andrew's appearance here. Find out more about the project here.
Avron-At-Home
Andrew McMillan is devising and delivering the first ever Arvon-At-Home poetry in June. Find out more here.
Accdentism Workshop
Rob Drummond and Erin Carrie are developing an e-version of the Accentism workshop for schools. Find out more here.
Launch of Memory Map of Jewish East End
29th March 2020 (Rachel Lichtenstein)
A collaboration with UCL and Survey of London, the Memory Map of Jewish East End has attracted over ten thousands visits since launching and significant press and media interest, for example an article with the History Workshop Journal here.
The Manchester Game Studies Network has launched a series of e-seminars
The first one took place on May 13th on Zoom. Find out more here.
The second seminar will take place on Wednesday 17th June and is a zoom workshop run by PhD student Mick Chesterman (education) entitled Raiding the Arcade: Playful Techniques to Introduce Game Making Concepts and Systemic Thinking. Find out more and book your ticket here.
The third scheduled event is designed around the forthcoming publication of the book Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead (edited by Matt Coward-Gibbs) in which Chloe Germaine Buckley has a chapter.
In mid-May the Manchester Game Studies Network launches its first online game jam (run by Paul Wake, Chloe Buckley and Matthew Crossley) and with contributions from colleagues in the faculty including Hwa Young and Marsha Courneya. Details are here.
BAFTSS Conference
Andrew Moore is involved in the planning of online events for e-version of the BAFTSS conference with plenary speakers and the Outstanding Achievement Award recipient, Mark Cousins. Online discussions with responses to the Cousins’s newest film planned over the summer. Find out more here.
Two AHRC studentships awarded
· Emma French (supervised by Chloe and Wake)
· Rebecca Wynne-Walsh (supervised by Xavi Aldana-Reyes)
Lord Ruthven Award
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn has been awarded the Lord Ruthven prize for her monograph Vampire Non-Fiction (2019), which was awarded by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, USA. Find out more here.
Blogging a Novel
Catherine Wilcox is blogging her new novel and a podcast is planned for June. Find out more here.
