"Sermon" is a word with an image problem. But then so is "lecture". During the week, I'm a lecturer; on Sundays I morph into an Anglican lay preacher. For a while, in both jobs I held the title of...
No book in the entire field of film studies has had a greater impact on me than this one. Robin Wood's passionate and insightful analysis is the best possible companion to the films of the great...
Despite the awkward translation, Helen Castor is moved by an absorbing study of medieval life
From the very beginning of European integration in the 1950s onwards, observers have disagreed about whether the process is driven by European states and adds to their power or, on the contrary, sets...
Blog Theory brings the heavy guns of literary theory to bear on the purportedly trivial activity of blogging. The usual artillery is deployed - a bombardment of arguments from Slavoj Žižek and...
A sonic explorer gives Andrew Blake a new channel into the ambient soundscape and its effects on us
Robin Feuer Miller on an admirable reassessment of the writer's strange and melodramatic death
A renowned university creative-writing programme is joining forces with a literature development agency to launch a website to showcase new talent. The site, provisionally titled www.newwriting.net,...
A "house of the future" that captivated millions of television viewers is to be rebuilt on a university campus. In Channel 4's 2008 programme Grand Designs Live: The House That Kevin Built, the...
Researchers from the UK and China are collaborating on a way to neutralise the unpleasant taste of medicines. Teams from the University of Bradford and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese...
A campaign is being launched to find thousands of "lost" graduates. The University of Bedfordshire is initially targeting its "Where are you now?" campaign in the local area, where it believes many...
A sale of work by artists including David Hockney, Tracey Emin and Bridget Riley has raised £225,850 towards a new campus. Alumni, staff and supporters of the Royal College of Art donated 15 lots for...
Scientists have succeeded in turning embryonic stem cells into ones that generate cartilage, paving the way for new treatments of diseases such as arthritis. The researchers, based at the University...
A university is holding a series of free masterclasses across the country to help the public use and analyse the increasing amount of data available on the internet. The course, run by the Centre for...
Scientists have won £3 million from the research councils and the government to study the environmental effects of nanoparticles found in products such as clothing and cosmetics. The University of...