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Bryan A. Whitelaw Recipient of Harry White Doctoral Prize
Latest News | 30 January, 2023

The School of Arts, English and Languages offers many congratulation to Bryan A. Whitelaw on being the recipient of this year’s Harry White Doctoral Prize.

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Frank Delaney's Documentary selected by broadcaster TG4 as their Christmas Day Special
Latest News | 14 December, 2022

‘Dessie: Glor na Bo Finne’, a new documentary produced by Broadcast Production’s Frank Delaney has been selected by broadcaster TG4 as their Christmas day documentary special.

Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, spots two further forgeries
Latest News | 9 December, 2022

Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, spotted two forgeries being offered at auction by Fonsie Mealy’s in Kilkenny.

The Times features a piece on a new Dickens letter, just published by Dr Leon Litvack
25 October, 2022

Today’s edition of the Times (24 October 22) features a piece on a new Dickens letter, just published by Leon Litvack on the Dickens Letters Project website.

Prof Mark Thornton Burnett receives a British Academy Newton International Fellowship award of £120k
26 September, 2022

Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (English/AEL), with Dr Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University), has been awarded a British Academy Newton International Fellowship. The value of the award is £119,250.

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ANJOOL MALDÉ YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (co-hosts Queen's University Belfast)
21 September, 2022

JOINT WINNERS: Yilin Cao, Fangzhou Yang, Ya Li for their Documentary 'The Gift Tree'

MA in Film production,has been selected for the 'Disappear Here Film Festival'
1 September, 2022

Still Shielding, an QUB MA in Film production, has been selected for the 'Disappear Here Film Festival', Ballyliffin, Donegal 23-25, September 2022

Dr Michael Brown wins Best Documentary Award at the Nepal America International Film Festival
4 July, 2022

Dr Michael Brown was in Washington DC (June 2022), where his film ‘Brick Mule’ won the Best Documentary Award at the Nepal America International Film Festival. Brick Mule was screened in the main theatre in the prime slot at the closing ceremony.

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Final year French & Portuguese student, Ana Torres wins prestigious Camões Institute Award 2022
Latest News | 30 June, 2022

Final year French & Portuguese student, Ana Torres, is the winner of the prestigious Camões Institute 2022 Award for Best Final Year Student of Portuguese in the UK!

The Sunday Telegraph carried a report of a new Dickens letter, found and published by Leon Litvack
Latest News | 28 June, 2022

The Sunday Telegraph of 26 June carried a report of a new Dickens letter, found and published by Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, that enhances what we know about the author’s abhorrence of the slave trade.

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INAUGURAL FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGES TEACHERS: CANADA ROOM/COUNCIL CHAMBER, FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2022
17 June, 2022

Based on the theme ‘Languages: The Key That Opens Doors’, Prof Isabel Torres, Prof Maeve McCusker and Dr Marcas MacCoinnigh were delighted to welcome so many to the first Forum for Modern Language Teachers on Friday 17 June.

Dr Gail McConnell wins the 2022 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
26 April, 2022

Dr Gail McConnell, poet and Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast, has been announced as the winner of the 2022 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her debut book The Sun is Open. 

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AEL Professor awarded France’s prestigious Palmes Académiques
4 April, 2022

Professor Janice Carruthers has been made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ambassador to the UK, Her Excellency Mme Catherine Colonna, at a special ceremony at Queen’s University Belfast.

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Success for AEL students at Royal Television Society NI Student TV awards

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Charlemont Grant awarded to Liberal Arts Lecturer

Congratulation to Sophie Cooper, who has been awarded a Charlemont Grant by the Royal Irish Academy for the project 'Histories of Emotion in the Built Environment' (HEBE).

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Success for AEL in the North-South Research Programme

Four projects in the School have received funding for their collaborative research projects between academics and institutions in Ireland and in Northern Ireland under the first funding call from the North-South Research Programme.

Prof. Mark Burnett (English) has been awarded a Marie Curie/EU Postdoctoral Fellowship grant.
31 March, 2022

The project, ‘Shakespeare and the Irish Actor’, brings experienced researcher Dr Emer McHugh (NUI Galway) to work with Mark for two years, starting next academic year, and is for Euros 220,000.

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Good Vibrations for AEL International Students

AEL International students were treated to the sights and sounds of an Alternative Ulster when they came along to a special screening of Good Vibrations in the Harty Room on Wednesday 23 February.

Prof Pedro Rebelo collaborates with Geraldine Timlin in a show called Silent Spring
22 November, 2021

Pedro Rebelo, Professor of Sonic Arts and director of SARC has collaborated with Donegal based visual artist Geraldine Timlin in a show entitled "Silent Spring”.

AEL SWAN International Men's Day Fundraising Event for PIPS
23 November, 2021

Staff and Students came together for a coffee and a traybake, and support PIPS, a local suicide and self-harm prevention and support charity

Launch of Friel Reimagined, new drama project in AEL
10 November, 2021

A project team led by Dr Paul Murphy has launched ‘Friel Reimagined’, an innovative drama engagement and research project.

Vivienne Griffin, PhD Student at SARC is one of this years Oram Award Winners
9 November, 2021

The Oram Awards - a platform for innovation in sound, music and related technologies returns in 2021 for it's 5th edition.

Caring from Behind the Face Mask in Healthcare: Learning from the Dramatic Arts
9 November, 2021

Dr Paul Murphy has recently published an article in a leading medical education journal with colleagues in Medicine at QUB and Psychiatry at RVH.

Dr Leon Litvack presents a short BBC broadcast on author James Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'
Latest News | 1 November, 2021

To commemorate the birth of eighteenth-century Scottish travel writer and literary biographer James Boswell, Leon Litvack presented this short BBC broadcast on the author’s Life of Samuel Johnson:

Recent Graduate of AEL Dr Anselm McDonnell has a recently commissioned work played on BBC Radio 3
28 October, 2021

The short work, Coimheascar (which means both twilight and ambush in Irish), was one of three commissioned to mark the autumn season

Right Now I Want to Scream: Prof Cahal McLaughlin and UU's Siobhán Wills interviewed on Canada’s CTV
4 October, 2021

Watch Canada's CTV News's Angie Seth interview with Directors Cahal McLaughlin and UU's Siobhán Wills on their AHRC funded film, Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Killings in Rio.

Six more full recordings added to the PMA research project website
Latest News | 4 October, 2021

We are delighted to announce that six more full recordings have been added to the PMA research project website.

Dr Leon Litvack discovers three more Charles Dickens Letters
Latest News | 30 September, 2021

Dr Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, has discovered three new letters written by Dickens to a Glasgow woman only identified as “Miss J.D”.

Lucy Baxter, Lecturer in Film Practice, has article published in the Irish News
Latest News | 22 September, 2021

Lucy Baxter's article entitled 'Commercialising our creative industries' was published in the Irish News 22nd September 2021

Film Studies and Production Students win the Anjool Maldé Young Journalist of the Year Award
Latest News | 30 July, 2021

Jack McCann (Director and Producer), Malin Hempill (Cinematographer) and Joseph Scott (Editor) receive the prestigious Anjool Maldé Young Journalist of the Year Award for their film 'Skeletor' produced as part of their BA in Film Studies & Production

Meet Our Modern Languages' Olympians
20 July, 2021

Two former Modern Languages' graduates, James MacSorley, (Law with Spanish) and Rebecca Edwards (French and Spanish) will be representing Team GB in the forthcoming Olympics in Tokyo

Junior Academy of Music launch their Virtual Summer Concert Video 'This is Why We Sing'
Latest News | 19 July, 2021

The Junior Academy of Music (JAM) programmes, a part of AEL, have launched their Virtual Summer Concert Video, 'This is Why We Sing', celebrating the end of the academic year and the 10 year anniversary of JAM.

Broadcast students and Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan launch "Civil Rights, Climate Wrongs" animation
7 July, 2021

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has launched "Civil Rights, Climate Wrongs," an interdisciplinary animation project consisting of two animated stories directed by Broadcast MA students and alums, and sound designed by a recent graduate of Music.

Congratulations to PhD student Brian Devlin on his successful viva
7 July, 2021

Many congratulations to PhD student Brian Devlin on his successful viva (6 July 2021). Thanks so much to examiners Dr Kevin Murray (UCC), Marcas Mac Coinnigh (QUB) and well done too to Brian’s supervisor, Dr Micheál Ó Mainnín.

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MA Arts Management included in the Economic Recovery Masters Studentship
28 June, 2021

MA Arts Management is included in the Economic Recovery Masters Studentship Scheme where the Department for the Economy (DfE) will be offering fully funded places for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria and who have applied by 5th July 2021.

Dr Leon Litvack discovers further Charles Dickens Letters

The Times reported on a Charles Dickens letter discovered and published by Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project.

JAM 4 students’ end of the year showcase 11 June 2021
16 June, 2021

JAM 4 students’ end of the year showcase: promising electronic music producers and our future sound engineers!

Outstanding success for AEL at the National Student Media Awards, SMEDIA 2021
Latest News | 10 June, 2021

At the recent SMEDIA awards Queen's students came out on top taking home the largest haul of awards.

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