Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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At the Faculty of Education, Lizzi leads on the Secondary English PGCE course and supervises Masters and PhD students. She has taught on the Diploma and Advanced Diploma in English Literature and contributed guest lectures to Creative Writing Courses at ICE. She has taught literature on a number of International Summer Programmes courses, focussing particularly on experiments in narrative form from 1880s-2000s. She also loves teaching poetry and supervises on the undergraduate English Tripos.
With a mixture of lecture-style teaching with seminar discussions, Elizabeth encourages students to develop their own critical confidence in responding to literary texts and critical issues.
My current research draws on extensive international archive research into popular poetry of the South African War, with a particular focus on poems published in British newspapers. I present a wealth of new material which disrupts the traditional picture of literary endeavour at the turn of the century, making a case for the range and value of a form of poetry which one newspaper commentator at the time called ‘dismal twaddle’ – an assessment which has been too readily accepted by literary historians. Meanwhile, the poems I have amassed constitute a rich and democratic historical source for complicating accounts of British responses to the South African War, and to imperial politics more generally.
This research is part of my wider interest in the place of poetry in society and popular culture. I am motivated by a conviction that poetry can and should be accessible and available to everyone, as a way of finding and building communities of understanding, and of articulating complex responses to the world around us.
The English Association
NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English)
