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Getting the most out of CorpusMOOC
The second run of Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation started a fortnight ago. It’s an eight week massive open online course. The course description says it offers “a practical...
View Articlewhy I won’t tweet my students’ exam howlers
Another summer marking season, another article in Times Higher Education soliciting student “exam howlers”. This is predictable and wearying and I can’t help but feel that we keep having this exact...
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haunting texts
Graffiti from 1632 carved into a pillar of Winchester cathedralLast semester I was teaching a History of English module. With little in the way of previous teaching materials, I had considerable scope...
View ArticleStylistics and grief
[content note: death, especially of loved ones. Descriptions of guts, blood and assorted viscera) Last term I was teaching a literary linguistics module. Literary linguistics, or Stylistics, basically...
View Articlewe are here (even when we’re not)
Last month I spoke at GENOVATE’s international conference on diversity within research and universities. I am not thrilled about the term “diversity” and find a lot of the discourse around it really...
View ArticleLearning to fail
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” I first encountered these words in my first year as an undergraduate – scrawled on a desk in one of the carrels in Liverpool’s...
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