Literary studies

The academic institutionalisation of English studies is a relatively recent phenomenon, with Oxford University having inaugurated an Honours School of English Language and Literature in…

I joined the University of Delhi as a student in 1974, having quit a course in Engineering, hoping to hone my writing skills in an…

English at the University of Canterbury has had a long and vigorous tradition. It continues to be an exemplar of vitality within the discipline in…

Leigh Dale's request was straightforward. She wrote, 'I am particularly interested in contributions which analyse the state of teaching and research, in the context of…

Ever since India scented the potential of a global economic order to offer unprecedented educational and employment opportunities to a large proportion of its citizens…

As academics whose teaching and research fall under the lazy umbrella term 'theory' we experienced some of the collateral damage of the 'theory wars' of…

Ken Goodwin grew up in Homebush, Sydney, son of a lift driver and a dressmaker. He was the first member of his family to go…

There is a burgeoning critical literature of higher education which comments on the cultural changes associated with ‘research quality measurement’. This essay is an introduction…

This paper draws on interviews conducted as part of the Australian Research Council funded Discovery project Investigating Literary Knowledge in the Making of English Teachers…

Published as part of the Routledge Focus series on Environment and Sustainability, Blanche Verlie’s Learning to Live with Climate Change (2021) explores the ways we…