English 2014 Teachers' Conference

Several presenters at the conference lead this discussion on the subject of preparing students for a degree in English.

Angela Goddard is AQA Lead Developer for A Level English Language, and English Language and Literature. Adrian Beard is AQA Lead Developer for A level English Literature. It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. This talk covers: - The new Ofqual subject criteria for English Language, English Literature, and English Language and Literature A levels - Structural and regulatory aspects of the new A Levels and AS Levels - Implications for teaching and issues of transition - Approaches being taken by AQA in developing new specifications

Dr Joe Bray from the School of English looks at Austen’s Style, drawing on examples from Sense and Sensibility (1811), Emma (1816) and Persuasion (1818). It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. Joe's profile from the University of Sheffield website: "My main research interests are in literary stylistics, specifically the narrative style of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel. I am also interested in book history, textual culture and experimental literature. I was awarded my PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1997, having previously taken a BA in English and an MPhil in General Linguistics there. The topic of my thesis was the emergence of free indirect discourse in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen. I then taught for two years (1997-9) at the University of Strathclyde and for five (2000-5) at the University of Stirling. In both departments I taught on literature and linguistic courses, as well as in the area of literary stylistics. At Strathclyde I taught on the MPhil in Literary Linguistics, and at Stirling I convened the core undergraduate course Language and Literature. In September 2005 I joined the University of Sheffield, where I teach on the Language and Literature undergraduate degree, the MA in English Language and Literature and various Literature modules."

Dr Mark Faulkner of the School of English. It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. Mark arrived at Sheffield in September 2012, after two years at University College Cork as Lecturer in Old English. He is a product of the medieval-intensive English Language and Literature Course II at Oxford, where he also completed his PhD.