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Activities and Events: Film Talk

There are lots of opportunities on campus to engage with the texts and topics you love outside of the classroom. We’ve just launched a new ‘Film Talk’ series, for example. Film Talk is an informal space to meet and chat about the latest big screen releases with staff, students (and sometimes even Mark Kermode!). Our first movie of of the series was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Coming up this term we’ll be chatting about The Shape of Water, Black Panther, and many more. Films are voted for by our students, and each meeting features a range of student speakers giving their own reviews. You can find information about the Film Talk series on our Film Studies Twitter feed: @ExeterFilm

Activities and Events

If you study with us at Exeter you’ll be invited to attend of a rich programme of events and activities alongside your studies. The Department of English and Film hosts an exciting range of visiting speakers and events across the academic year.

Some recent visitors include the UK’s foremost film critic Mark Kermode, who dropped by campus in December to give a masterclass and Q&A on film journalism for our students.

 

We are international

Are you thinking of coming to study English with us at Exeter from outside the UK? International students give their take below on what it’s like to study with us, and how they’ve made Exeter a home away from home:

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Research bites: literature of the long 18th century

‘We have extraordinary students, and exceptionally interesting colleagues, and their ideas, their enthusiasm informs my work and enriches it.’

Hear Dr Daisy Hay‘s thoughts about passion, life writing and archives in her research and teaching on the literature of the long eighteenth century.

Here’s Daisy’s book Young Romantics, and a Guardian review of her most recent, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance – winner of a Somerset Maugham Award in 2016.

You can study with Daisy on her specialist option: EAS3178 Life Writing: History, Form, Practice.
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We are Researchers

You will be taught by active researcher and leaders in their respective fields when you come to study at Exeter. We are passionate about bringing you into the latest debates and ideas across the spectrum of literary studies, including creative writing and film.

Here are just a few of the faces you will encounter across your degree. Click on a profile to find out more.

    

Teaching bites: Imperial Encounters

Take a trip into the archive and explore the workings of Victorian adventure stories!

Dr Paul Young, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature & Cultures, gives you a taster of what you might study on the level 3 specialist option Imperial Encounters: Victorians and their World.

Take a look at the video below for a flavour of the kinds of texts and artefacts that will form a key part of your study in all things Victorian here at Exeter.

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We are student researchers

It’s not just staff who actively research in English at Exeter: we encourage you to develop your own skills as a researcher, and give you unique opportunities to develop your original work to the highest level. Many of our students publish in The Undergraduate, for example – a multidisciplinary journal of undergraduate students, run by and for undergraduates at Exeter. Editors Caroline Hughes and Rosemary Lennie are here to introduce you to the work the Journal does.

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We are Postgrads

We have a thriving postgraduate community in English at Exeter, with many of our Undergraduate students choosing to stay with us to study further and expand their interest and expertise in English at MA level. You can find out more here.

Take a look at Tara’s video below – her pathway through Exeter English led her from Oscar Wilde to Japanese literature.

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We are the English Society

The English Society is an open forum for Exeter English students and others to discuss their courses, allay their fears about MLA referencing and anything else that takes their fancy!

You can join the Society’s Facebook group to find out more.

Research bites: women writing cinema

How did writers respond to the birth of film? What impact did cinemagoing have on literary cultures – particularly for women, cinema’s dominant audience in its golden era? Dr Lisa Stead explores how women ‘penned the screen’ in pre- and interwar British literature.

Want to learn more? You can study with these artefacts and create your own video essay on the third year module EAF3236 The Dream Palace

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