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Welcome to the School of English, Journalism and European Languages

We are a large and vital cross-campus School, bringing together the disciplines of English, Journalism, Media and Communications, French and German.

Discipline of English
English
Discipline of French
French
Discipline of German
German
Discipline of Journalism and Media Studies
Journalism, Media and Communications

Screen Studies major in 2008

Staff and Student Resources

For information about units and courses follow the links to the individual disciplines.

 

Research

 

Publications

 

News

"Imagining Antarctica"

Christchurch, New Zealand: 4 - 6 September, 2008

Gateway Antarctica and the English programme at the University of Canterbury, together with the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania, will host a conference examining Antarctica from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the arts, social sciences and humanities, the conference will focus attention on the ways in which we perceive and represent the southernmost continent. This will be followed by a second conference in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2010. Click here for more information.

ANZAMEMS 2-6 December 2008

Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.), 7th Biennial International Conference will be convened at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This year the conference has an open theme. Twenty-minute papers on all aspects of medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies (all broadly defined) are most welcome. Panel proposals of 3 papers are also welcome. Click here for more information.

Recipes for Empire

Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 20-22 January 2009.

Recipes for Empire provides the opportunity to explore the multiple ways in which food, cookbooks, and recipes reveal the dense and complex relationships established under the aegis of empire, particularly, but not exclusively, the nineteenth-century British Empire. This interdisciplinary conference is jointly convened by the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath, the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania; and the Department of English, Mar Ivanios College, Kerala. Click here for more information.

 


As one of the largest Schools in the Faculty of Arts, we are able to offer a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs run by staff who are fully committed to providing a high quality learning experience.

The School has an international reputation as a centre for research and publication in colonial and postcolonial studies, and is a leading partner in the University’s Centre for the Study of Colonialism and its Aftermath. Further details about the disciplines, Colonialism and its Aftermath and individual degree programs are given on relevant pages.