Meet the people behind our centre, discover their areas of expertise, interests, and recommendations. Dr Rona Cran is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century American Literature at the University of Birmingham and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of North America. Their scholarship is interdisciplinary and centres on the literature and culture of New … Continue reading “CCLC Profiles: Dr Rona Cran”
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‘Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers’: Birmingham Literature Festival 2019 (10/10/2019)
Members of CCLC attended a Birmingham Literature Festival event celebrating the recent publication Common People, an anthology of 33 working class writers, edited by Kit De Waal and published by Unbound. The four authors present read segments from their published works in the anthology. Lisa Blower spoke of childhood in Stoke-on-Trent and ‘always being ten … Continue reading “‘Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers’: Birmingham Literature Festival 2019 (10/10/2019)”