BGU English

🙏 Thanks to our students for the boost: they gave 100% overall satisfaction with our degree in English Literature, placing us... 1st in the UK!!! 🍾 Hear more from them here youtu.be/5n8EL7zI-Ww #NSS #studyenglish #studyliterature #englishliterature #litchat @BGULincoln

Congratulations to our final-year Andrew Pearse, whose poem ‘The Statue’ wins the Tennyson Poetry Award 2023! 🎉🎉🎉 It will be soon published on @BGULincoln website.

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Thank you all for sharing this amazing adventure with me @BGUEnglish @BGULincoln @AndrewJHJackson @amb1860 #VPFAHiddenHistories

Our conference organisers, including our own @ccapancioni . We have had a fantastic time, thank you so much! #VPFAHiddenHistories

Panel time! Let’s talk Victorian animals! #VPFAHiddenHistories

It’s almost time for our Reading Group session at #VPFAHiddenHistories! This afternoon, we’re discussing the joys and challenges we encounter while recovering victorian queer histories through research. Join us at 14:00 (BST) online or in Teaching Room 7!

Great to share a panel earlier on 'Literary Geographies and the Local' at #VPFAHiddenHistories @VPFA1 with @KentMaps1 @TimDavi25224265 @ccapancioni @BGUEnglish

Time for Keynote Speaker #3: @AdrianWisnicki We are excited to hear his talk on ‘Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom’! #VPFAHiddenHistories

@cryingtheoretic Wasn’t it fantastic!

@BGUEnglish That Earl grey tart though 🤤🤤🤤

What a fantastic evening at the #VPFAHiddenHistories The meal was fantastic!

Question time for Panel Ten with our own beautiful Amy

What an interesting start to the day, Sophie. #VPFAHiddenHistories

Marginalised citizens are not just represented as victims but as people who stand up for themselves and reaffirms their identities by allowing them a place in society.

First speaker of Panel Ten: Sophie Bantle, discussing ‘Ripper Street’, which focuses on ‘one of the most famous crimes in history’. It is a counter narrative to the Ripper myth, which focuses on humanising the victims and asks the audience to sympathise with the girls.

Wealth and status of those in power means that crimes against women were covered up. Victims that survive are given a a voice to accuse and confront their abusers directly allowing them to reclaim power and energy.

Sex workers are not viewed through the male gaze, but given an evoking back story which attracts sympathy.

Day Two of #VPFAHiddenHistories BGU conference assistants are already busy !💪🏻