Sooo #PALA2025 is coming to Aston! Dr Chloe Harrison and Stephen Pihlaja introduce Aston plans for the conference next year PALA English at Aston University Aston's Research Centre for the Humanities

That's it for #pala2024. What an incredible time. SHU Stylistics is a special place with the most incredible people.

The Aston Stylistics Research Group were out in force at #PALA2024 this year 💪 English at Aston University

And that’s a wrap! Thanks from us, the SHU Stylistics organising team of this year’s PALA Conference 2024 conference! Thanks to everyone who came for making it such a friendly and intellectual stimulating week! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! #pala2024

Dr Louise Nuttall and I have worked very hard to get this important survey online, so shares would be very much appreciated 🙏

🗣️📜| Congratulations to Aston University's linguistics, languages and sociology graduates! 🎓Graduation ceremony #15 took place at Eastside Rooms in Birmingham this afternoon 👉t.ly/7YPLH #TeamAston

THE READING LIST PROJECT is built BY teachers, FOR teachers so that we can find new books for students! If you’ve read a great book recently, please take 2 mins to fill in a form and we will do the rest! All phases & genres welcome! We NEED more primary! funkypedagogy.com/the-reading-li…

9 million tulips, a 16 ton moving Train, Munchkinland, Emerald City, Shiz University with a lake entrance, a working giant Wizard head… we had to build these things for real. That’s beside incredible costumes, hair, make up, stunts and of course singing and choreography. Add on

reading a series of unfortunate events as a little girl made me think i’d encounter a lot more anagrams than i have….nobody wants to rearrange words to conceal true names, sinister messages, and secret locations these days 🙄🙄🙄

Delighted to see Aston in 29th place in The Guardian 2025 subject rankings for English. This places us in the top 1/3 of universities offering English degrees and reflects all the wonderful work my colleagues English at Aston University do to support our students. theguardian.com/education/ng-i…

Here we go…PALA 2025 will be hosted by Aston Stylistics Research Group Aston University. Really looking forward to this! #stylistics

Aston Stylistics Research Group is back with another research seminar series for 2024-25. Once more we have a brilliant line up of speakers. Further details of titles and how to register soon! PALA Literary Semantics University English English Association appliedstylistics.com/research-semin…

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’

✨ Partner News ✨ We are delighted to share that Aston University is now a Litdrive partner! buff.ly/4gGwYBa #Litdrive #TeamEnglish English at Aston University Team English

Our hearts are broken beyond description to learn about the passing of Gavin Creel, an unparalleled artist, activist, and songwriter with one of the biggest hearts on Broadway. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and the entire Broadway community. What a devastating loss.

When they say “lighting up the boards”, Gavin Creel is what they mean. A heartbreaking loss for the Broadway community, as performer and person. A genuinely bright light to go out. But how lucky we were. A true Broadway baby, saying goodbye way too soon. It’s been grand, Gavin.

We should all aspire to the kind of extraordinary kindness that is universally remembered after we're gone.

It’s so important that we recognise that ALL engagement is good. It’s damaging to tell a child that what they enjoy isn’t ‘proper’ reading. Let them read graphic novels and comics, let people listen to audiobooks without nitpicking about definitions and whether they ‘read’ a book

Finding the right book, for the right reader can be the key that unlocks a love for reading and literacy skills for life. We believe that *all* reading is valid. Comic books and graphic novels can be especially powerful for reluctant readers. #GrowAGenerationOfReaders

The CFP for PALA2025 at Aston Uni, Birmingham UK is now live! Theme: Digital Stylistics. Deadline 31st Jan, 2025. 🥳