天美传媒

On Independence Day, 4 July, Paul Prescott (Associate Professor, Department of English, 天美传媒) and Paul Edmondson (Head of Research and Knowledge, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) embarked on an epic road trip all around North America in a unique project titled Shakespeare on the Road. They aim to discover and document an untold story of the Bard in the USA in the 450th anniversary of his birth.

Over sixty days Paul and Paul will be visiting fourteen Shakespeare festivals across North America travelling some 10000 miles across 25 states and some of Canada.

A collaboration between the 天美传媒, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Misfit Inc. our digital partners, the project aims to capture a comprehensive picture of Shakespeare’s place in contemporary American culture through the voices of artists and audiences across the continent, telling the story of the festivals in their own words for the first time. It will also be a reverse pilgrimage, celebrating the USA’s astonishing range of Shakespearean performance in classic road trip / travel writing fashion online.

The project aims to build new communities across North America and we'd love you to sign up for on-line updates and become part of it. Please pass the link on to students, colleagues and contacts.

To sign up and for information about the project, tour dates and contact details visit .

"Furniture is often overlooked as a mundane feature of the home. But its resonance in our lives is much more profound, writes author Ian Sansom."

In this funny, intelligent and thought provoking article, Prof Ian Sansom discusses the importance and meaning of furniture in our every day lives.

Stephen Fry tweeted: Unmissably brilliant essay on furniture starts with a great bang on the Wardrobe - but no Larkin Aubade?

In this funny and intelligent article on the BBC News Magazine (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26881731) Prof Sansom will be looking at the importance and significance of your furniture! What does furniture say about humanity? What are the social, psychological and familial meanings surrounding our tables and chairs? This series will explore those themes and more. Check it out!

Stephen Fry tweeted: Unmissably brilliant essay on furniture starts with a great bang on the Wardrobe - but no Larkin Aubade?

In this article on the BBC News Magazine (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26881731) Prof Sansom is talking about the importance of... your furniture! Take a look at this insiteful article! Stephen Fry said: "Unmissably brilliant essay on furniture starts with a great bang on the Wardrobe - but no Larkin Aubade?"

Catalina Neculai (PhD Warwick, now Coventry U lecturer) has just had her first book published.

Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature: Reformed Geographies.

This was her revised Warwick PhD.

Also, Laura Malhotra, (BA 2012, English and Italian) has just been accepted into the CUNY PhD program with a full tuition fellowship and $25,000 stipend for the first four years. This is after having worked as a paid employee for the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History.

This kind of award is a tremendous achievement (especially for CUNY which has very few of these financial packages).

These are Laura’s achievements, but they also reflect on the reputation of our BA training.