The University of Exeter has a huge array of student societies covering sports, art, music, performance, film… you name it, and there is probably a society for it (yes, there IS a Hide and Seek Society).

Most relevant for the Department of English & Film, there is an English Society. In recent years they have arranged field trips, balls, talks, Christmas dinners, quizzes… you can see more info on their Facebook page.

The students certainly seem to enjoy the annual weekend break to a European city. This year it was Paris! Cue literature-themed photo opportunity:

Here is first-year student Mary Helafi outside the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, where James Joyce’s Ulysses was published for the first time in its entirety in 1922. Which seems like a good opportunity to mention that my colleague Professor Vike Martina Plock convenes a third-option focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses. I didn’t make Mary visit Shakespeare and Company just so I could mention Vike’s Ulysses module – honest!