Banging the Drum for Samoan Cultural Heritage
By recording the musical knowledge found across Samoa’s islands, researchers hope to celebrate the heritage they find while retaining its diversity.
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Women in Drama: Recreating Theatre for the 21st Century
While theatre is full to bursting with ‘everyman’ roles, the ‘everywoman’ has been notable mostly by her absence. In the School of English, Professor Zinnie Harris addresses these fatal flaws in theatrical tradition by…
The Music in Virginia Woolf’s writing
Professor Emma Sutton reveals the full significance of Virginia Woolf's declaration that ‘I always think of my books as music before I write them’.
In defence of the wolf
Wolves are returning to their former ranges across Europe and North America, resurrecting a centuries’ old war with humans. Yet wolves are losing this battle, because in our arsenal we possess not only guns, traps, and…
Virginia Woolf in Tehran
The novel, ‘Vanessa and Virginia’, by Susan Sellers, a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, has been translated into Farsi by Zahra Amini, a graduate of the University of Tehran where she studied…
‘New Generation Thinker 2016’ winners! Dr Victoria Donovan and Anindya Raychaudhuri
Congratulations to Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri, School of English, and Dr Victoria Donovan, School of Modern Languages two early career researchers from St Andrews (out of 10 total!) who have been chosen as New Generation…
The Fair Intellectual Club
Research by the School of English’s Professor Robert Crawford into the first of the great city rivalries of the English-speaking world – that of Edinburgh and Glasgow – has inspired a play by the comedian Lucy Porter.
English poetry goes digital
The study of Medieval and Renaissance English poetry conjures up images of quiet libraries and beautiful volumes, but researchers in the School of English are endeavouring to change this image.
The exponentially engaging Vanessa and Virginia
Extensive editorial and biographical research on the work of Virginia Woolf by Susan Sellers, Professor of English and Creative Writing in the School of English, led to the composition and publication of her first…
‘Where have all the flowers gone?’ and the ubi sunt motif
‘Where have all the flowers gone?’ by American folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger is not just an arrestingly powerful protest song from the era of the Cold War and McCarthyism; it draws on a deep tradition…