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Welcome to the News & Events area.
Here you will find all our current news, events listings and details of our research seminars as well as information about our staff and PhD student successes. Should you need any more details on any of the information contained in these pages, please contact encap@cf.ac.uk
BAAL Book Prize 2011
The BAAL Book Prize 2011 has been awarded to The Handbook of Language and Globalization edited by Professor Nik Coupland.
The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) offers an annual prize for ‘an outstanding book in the field of Applied Linguistics.’ Two or more (anonymous) judges read each of the short-listed books and one of them had this to say about this year’s winner:
‘This is an excellent collection of twenty nine wide-reaching, rich and engaging papers on diverse aspects of an immensely important theme, language and globalisation, written by an impressive array of experts in diverse fields of linguistics. The collection comprehensively covers all the major issues, approaches and perspectives on the relationships between globalisation and language, and it also presents a range of contrasting voices, from around the globe, from different research traditions, and from different political positions’.
Learning to Teach
The first cohort of ENCAP Postgraduate Tutors have completed the School's Learning to Teach module as featured in Cardiff News for October 2011 available here:
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/3752d1a8#/3752d1a8/12
RECENT STAFF PUBLICATIONS
Dr Tristan Hughes, holder of an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, launched his new novel 'Eye Lake' at Waterstone's in Cardiff on Wednesday 15 June.
VISIT DR TRISTAN HUGHES'S PROFILE PAGE
We are pleased to announce that Dr Neil Badmington's new book 'Hitchcock's Magic' was published in April 2011 by University of Wales Press. The book focusses draws on the poststructuralist theories of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida and takes issue with the biographical and psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated studies of Hitchcock's films to argue instead for the signifiance of textuality. Click the book cover to enlarge the image.
VISIT DR NEIL BADMINGTON'S PROFILE PAGE
We are also pleased to note that Dr Carl Phelpstead's new book 'Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity' was published in May 2011, also by University of Wales Press. Dr Phelpstead's text describes more fully than before the extent and depth of Tolkien's debt to Welsh language and literature, and argues that Tolkien's love of Wales and Welsh is inseparable from his love of, and sense of belonging to, England. Click the book cover to enlarge the image.
Tolkien and Wales: A Celebration
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Dr Katie Gramich, Reader in English Literature, has published a monograph on the author Kate Roberts, as part of the University of Wales 'Writers of Wales' series.
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES 'WRITERS OF WALES' SERIES
Dr Richard Gwyn, Reader in Creative Writing, has published a novel 'The Vagabond's Breakfast' which was launched on 15 April 2011 at Waterstone's, The Hayes, Cardiff.
VISIT DR RICHARD GWYNS'S PROFILE PAGE
Dr Claire Connolly, Reader in English Literature, in association with Prof. Angela V John has edited and written a new introduction for 'You're Welcome to Ulster' by Menna Gallie.
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RESEARCH GRANT SUCCESSES
Mr Tim Rhys, Lecturer in Creative Writing, has a feature film script going into production - called ‘Crow’, with a £250,000 budget. Shooting will start early in June for three weeks, with the film due for release late in 2011.
Dr Becky Munford, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, has won a British Academy grant to undertake a research project 'Women in Trousers: A Cultural History, 1789 to the Present'. The project looks at the way in which the history of trouser-wearing women in the West is entangled in controversy.
Dr Anthony Mandal, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, is one of the collaborators in a Royal Society of Edinburgh project to prepare and publish the first thirteen volumes of a new standard edition of Robert Louis Stevenson.
PhD SUCCESSES
Rebekah Humphreys and Sophie Vlacos, who recently completed PhDs in Philosophy in the School, have edited a volume titled 'Creation, Environment and Ethics' published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book contributes to a critical understanding of ethics, evolution and creation and provides a pluralistic response to some of the most pressing issues facing the global environment today. Click the cover to enlarge the image.
The following students have all recently completed PhDs in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Gerardina Antelmi
Title: Chaucer's Models of Dreaming: Definitions, Sources and Meanings
Date Completed: 23 May 2011
Anthony Austin
Title: Reading Alzheimer's: Theory, Fiction and Culture
Date completed: 30 June 2011
Elidir Jones
Title: Mary Magdelene in literature
Date completed: 4 July 2011
Tomos Owen
Title: London-Welsh Writing 1890-1915: Ernest Rhys, Arthur Machen, W.H. Davies and Caradoc Evans
Date completed: 3 March 2011
CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY
Aiden Tynan
Title: The Literary Clinic: Deleuze, Criticism, and the Politics of Symptoms
Date Completed: 28 March 2011
Mareile Pfannebecker
Title: Early Modern Limitrophies: English Representations of Travel to Italy
Date completed: 8 August 2011
PHILOSOPHY
Andrew Buchanan-Smith
Title: Democracy and Diversity: Political Theories, Liberalism and Modi Vivendi
Date Completed: 3 January 2012
Kathleen Kerr-Koch
Title: Modernity and the (Postmodern) Intellectual Romance with Fascism: Shelley, Benjamin, de Man
Date completed: 6 June 2011
Ronen Shayovitz
Title: The Philosophy of terror and terrorism
Date Completed: 1 July 2011
Sophie Vlacos
Title: Hermeneutics and Literary Interpretation
Date completed: 15 March 2011
CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
Clyde Ancarno
Title: Public acts of contrition as apologies in the British and French press: Focus on evaluation and ideology
Date Completed: 23 May 2011
Chin- Hui (Irene) Chen
Title: Portraying older age in television advertisements: a comparative study between the UK and Taiwan
Date completed: 22 March 2011
Gilbert Gabriel
Title: Altered States, Altered Sounds. An investigation of how 'subjective states' are signified by the soundtrack in narrative fiction cinema
Date Completed: 25 January 2012