In Memoriam
Professor Ron Carter
2018
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Dr Susan Cockcroft
2025
Susan taught stylistics, narratology, and rhetoric in the School of English at Nottingham for many years. In the 1980s she was instrumental in the creation of the UK English Language A-level, influencing colleagues in the discipline for generations to come.
Professor Zoltán Dörnyei
2022
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Professor Norman Page
2025
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Dr George Parfitt
2018
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Dr Peter Preston
2011
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Dr Betty Taylor
2025
Elizabeth Taylor grew up in British India and South Africa. Before embarking on her doctorate at Rhodes University (Grahamstown), Betty published travelogues on the Transkei in South African newspapers such as the Cape Times, the Cape Argus and the Eastern Province Herald. She worked as a lecturer in English Literature at Rhodes before moving to England, where she was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Nottingham. At the height of European opposition to and awareness of apartheid she introduced students to South African fiction in English.