Five international writers read pieces of their works and shared their experience at UIC on 9 November. They were Bidisha (UK), Alecia McKenzie (Jamaica), Mariko Nagai (Japan), Oumar Farouk Sesay (Sie...

Dr Graham Lock spoke of new ways of teaching English grammar in a lecture on 14 April. This adjunct associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong argued for a shift to grammar tea...

DHSS Lecture Series The Institute of Cross-Cultural StudiesWriter’s WorkshopCo-sponsored by the Programmes of Contemporary English Language & Literature (CELL) andApplied Translation Studies (ATS)Div...

Five international writers came up with some top tips for a UIC audience at the International Writers Workshop on 30 October. The writers, who were Sonya Sones, Petri Karra, Marjorie Evasco, Maxine Ca...

What is the stereotype of China and Chinese people in Western literature? Dr. James I. McDougall, Associate Professor of American Studies from the Centre for International Studies of Shantou Universit...

Creativity is a buzzword in advertisements, in the workplace and even in the classroom. But what is “creativity”? How can we estimate whether teachers or students are “creative”? Dr Rodney H. Jone...