Category: Tutor News

  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Belinda Jack, 14th May 2015

    “Cliché: The Nemesis of Exciting Writing”

    with Professor Belinda Jack

    Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
    62 Banbury Road
    5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

    Writers need an acute attentiveness to language when reading, and a self-consciousness when writing, which together foster a creative use of words. It is only an imaginative use of language that allows for new ideas and for a new understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. We need to be linguistically inventive and ingenious if new insights are to be conceived of, and articulated. And we also need to be aware of language that is no longer fit for purpose. We need to do something about words which have lost their vivacity and lounge lazily on the page. The term ‘verbicide’ (the killing of words) emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. In the twenty-first century it is cliché that needs to be in our sights.

    Belinda Jack’s first two books are on francophone writing. She then wrote a biography of George Sand, George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large and a group biography, Beatrice’s Spell. Her most recent book is a history of women’s reading, The Woman Reader, published by Yale University Press. She is a Student (‘Fellow’) and Tutor in French at Christ Church and is currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. The title of her three-year lecture series is ‘The Mysteries of Reading and Writing. Belinda Jack also writes for a number of periodicals, reviews widely and speaks at literary festivals and on the radio.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

    http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

  • MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s TEDx talk on “The Wonders of Writing”

    MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s University of Nicosia TEDx talk on “The Wonders of Writing” in November 2014 is now available to view online.

  • MSt tutor Roopa Farooki calls for diversity in fiction for children in “The Author” magazine

    In “The Author” magazine, the journal of the Society of Authors, MSt tutor Roopa Farooki, “calls for more diverse heroes in books written for children and young adults”.

    Download and read the full article  (thanks to “The Author” magazine for permission to make the pdf available. You can see more about the magazine and subscribe to it here).

  • MSt tutor Roopa Farooki “On Making Time to Write” blog post on Tinder Press

    Farooki_Roopa_6414MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has a new blog post for Tinder Press

    “…in the end, being a writer isn’t a grand and complicated thing. A writer is simply someone who makes the time to write.”

    Read the rest of the post at http://tinderpress.co.uk/2015/03/roopa-farooki-on-making-time-to-write/