Dual Honours Students Yzzy Bostyn (English & Hispanic Studies) and Laura Corkhill (English & Music) talk about what it's like being Dual Honours students, writing dissertations, performing in recitals, the Sheffield food scene, and more. 

Laura is a third year Music and English Literature student.

School of English: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/undergraduate

Department of Music: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/undergraduate

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Third year students Hannah Dibble (English Literature & History) and Luke Wakeman (East Asian Studies) have a conversation about their dissertations, modules, why they chose Sheffield, student living, and more. 

Luke is a third year East Asian Studies student with a particular research interest in mobility, migrant communities and cultural histories. Outside of his university work, Luke loves to cook food from all over the world, explore the Peak District by walking and climbing, and share his love of music on Forge Radio where he hosts a disco and soul show.

School of English: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/undergraduate

School of East Asian Studies: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/undergraduate

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn talk to Dr. Iona Hine about her academic career, biblical studies, Heinz Cassirer, and more. 

Dr Iona Hine is the Heinz Cassirer Research Associate at the School of English. You can check out her webpage on the School of English website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/iona-c-hine

Further links to explore from the episode: 

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn talk to fellow student Dom (DP) about his interest in linguistics, passion for poems, blog writing, Bakewell Tarts, and more. 

DP is a second year English Language and Linguistics student with a passion for writing, baking and hiking. You can read his linguistics and poetry series on the School of English blog. http://soeblog.group.shef.ac.uk/tag/student-writing-series/

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn talk to Dr Maisha Wester about her fascination with horror (disappointment with Edgar Allan Poe!), moving from Indiana to Sheffield, Black Lives Matter, racial discourse in horror, and more.

Dr Maisha Wester is a Global Professor at the School of English. You can check out her webpage on the School of English website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/maisha-wester

Special shoutout to Mary Going, her Research Associate: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/mary-going

Links for further reading:

Black Lives Matter US Home Page: https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Black Lives Matter UK Home Page: https://blacklivesmatter.uk/

In Memoriam: I Can't Breathe: https://www.reneeater.com/on-monuments-blog/tag/list+of+unarmed+black+people+killed+by+police

The Equiano Project: https://www.theequianoproject.com/about

Black and British: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0499smp

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn chat with Mariyah Mandhu about her academic career, striking the work/life balance, hiking, baking, Sheffield, reading, and more. 

Mariyah is a PhD student in the School of English working on the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She also works full time at the British Psychological Society as a Partnership and Accreditation Officer. An avid reader and a fan of nature, she loves hiking in the Peak District and the Lake District, contemporary art and baking.

Lisa Holloway is a student on the MA English Studies (Online) programme. Lisa lives in West Yorkshire with her husband (a police officer) and two children, Erin and Finley. Lisa is a secondary school English teacher in an 11-18 school, and she leads on GCSE English Literature and whole-school literacy. She is an avid reader of fiction, particularly dystopian, Booker/Pulitzer Prize winners, and anything with a feminist angle, but she is open to anything! She enjoys Medieval literature but her eyes are being opened to many other interesting topics on the MA English (Online) programme!

Find out more: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/2021/english-studies-online-ma

Questions asked:

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn interview Dr Chris Montgomery on his academic career, research, how to pronounce words like 'bath', and more. 

Dr Chris Montgomery is a Senior Lecturer in Dialectology at the School of English. You can check out his webpage on the School of English website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/chris-montgomery

Check out Hielke's episode, 'Congratulations on Your Accent': https://anchor.fm/shefenglish/episodes/Congratulations-on-Your-Accent-escu96

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassador Yzzy Bostyn interviews Dr Veronica Barnsley on her research, projects and favourite thing about Sheffield.

Dr Veronica Barnsley is a Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature at the School of English. You can check out her webpage on the School of English website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/veronica-barnsley

Additional information from the episode:

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662

Student Ambassadors Hannah Dibble and Yzzy Bostyn interview Hielke Vriesendorp on his PhD studies, higher education journey, Sheffield, accents, and more. 

Hielke Vriesendorp is a Teaching Associate in Sociolinguistics at the University of Sheffield, and specialises in the perception of accents and language and sexuality. He did a PhD at the university researching how accent information is stored in memory.

Intro and Outro clips by Tamás Varga:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dGOv5rGlA4AN44RCdbA2g/featured?view_as=subscriber

https://soundcloud.com/tamas-varga-984570662