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Category > Classics

Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?

Maria Seijo-Richart - March 9, 2017

On the 8th March, International Women’s Day, I wish to pay homage to one of my favourite heroines of literature: Mary Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. I discovered Jane Austen…

Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx

Maria Seijo-Richart - October 25, 2015

When I was in high school, the Spanish education system required fifteen-year-old students to choose between three options: from then on, they would study Ciencias [Maths and Science subjects], Letras…

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Everything I did wrong…

Caroline Magennis - October 21, 2015

…while hunting for an academic job. For five years I was employed in a variety of (most welcome) short term contracts, and I interviewed the length and breadth of the…

Cruel Summer

Caroline Magennis - June 24, 2015

‘You get the summer off, right? Go on loads of holidays, yeah?’ I imagine you’ve been asked this once or twice, and you’ve rolled your eyes so hard you pulled…

Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline

Geoff Mills - June 14, 2015

When I became a student of Creative Writing in 2007 the pedagogue within me broke through. I came into contact with good teacher-writers, but as a teacher myself I was…

The day Ray Bradbury died

Maria Seijo-Richart - June 5, 2015

What a difference a day makes? Today is 5th June, 2012. Here you are, at your university, with a gigantic bundle of paper in your arms. You enter the department,…

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Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library

Maria Seijo-Richart - February 15, 2015

I have always loved Ray Bradbury. In his novel Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future, a totalitarian government orders all the books to be burned and (ironically) employs firefighters…

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“The computer is not working”: being let down by technology

Maria Seijo-Richart - January 17, 2015

I have always hated to rely on technology. Maybe it is because I grew up in a place where computers and electric devices never seemed to work properly, and repairs…

Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary

Maria Seijo-Richart - February 20, 2014

I recently read an article on a national newspaper, mocking the suggestion of the Minister of Education that state school pupils should study Latin and Greek. The author (a comedian…

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Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions

Geoff Mills - October 11, 2013

Today, in the supermarket, I hit a small girl square in the face. I didn’t, of course, but few would read this and fail to read on. It had, I…

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