280225 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.8 Today we’ll be talking about the renowned writer Maggie O’Farrell. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, in the year 2000 she published her debut novel, After You’d Gone, and she is now the author of highly acclaimed novels such as The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must [...]
310125 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.7 Virginia Woolf In this episode we talk about the great feminist icon, Virginia Woolf. Born in 1882, Virginia was an influential English writer and a central figure in the modernist literary movement. Known for her innovative narrative techniques, such as stream of consciousness, her notable works include A Room of One’s [...]
231224 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.6 Louisa May Alcott, Joan Didion, Agatha Christie and many more women have written about Christmas, a time when women have been pictured as caring and as the glue of the family unit, and also a time when women feel they should not put up with the burden of having to care [...]
051224 Podcast EOI Inglés Ep.5 In this episode we pay homage to a fascinating Irish writer, EDNA O’BRIEN, who died in London last August at the age of 93. A fearless, outspoken and often controversial figure, O’Brien wrote more than 20 novels, biographies, as well as plays, screenplays and a memoir. I also interview Irene Ruiz, another [...]
081124 EOI Episode 4. Philippa Gregory After a few summery months, A TALLER MOUNTAIN IS BACK. And we are delighted because we have to celebrate! What? Not a few things: last 19th of October was WOMEN WRITERS DAY; a woman, HAN KANG, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature; and two women writers have won two [...]
160524 Podcast EOI Inglés WHY “A TALLER MOUNTAIN”? In this episode you’ll find out why the name of this podcast is A TALLER MOUNTAIN, and much more. We talk about the amazing Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a novelist and an essayist of postcolonial feminist literature. She is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus, [...]
Podcast EOI ELCHE-LITERATURA INGLESA Ep.2 A TALLER MOUNTAIN- In EPISODE 2 we talk about the QUEEN OF CRIME, Agatha Christie. We talk about her fascinating life, her incredible work, and we interview Malu, a huge fan of this author and a student at the UMH and at Elche’s Official School of Languages. Don’t miss our section [...]
Podcast EOI ELCHE-LITERATURA INGLESA Listen to our new monthly podcast about English Literature written by female authors. It has been produced by the EOI of Elche and UMH RADIO, and created by the teacher of the EOI of Elche, Natalia Hernández. In this first episode we talk about Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein. Escucha nuestro nuevo podcast mensual EN [...]
021123 Podcast ESPECIAL RUANDA Ruanda es conocida en la Universidad Miguel Hernández como el quinto campus. En este país africano, la UMH lleva a cabo un programa de voluntariado que este año celebra su décimo aniversario. Cada verano, un grupo de voluntarios que pueden ser alumnis, estudiantes, Personal Docente e Investigador y Personal de Administración y [...]
020623 Programa EOI Durante el curso 2022-2023 en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Elche se ha impartido un curso de dos horas a la semana titulado “Aprende inglés a través de la literatura”. La profesora ha sido Natalia Hernández y los matriculados fueron cinco estudiantes, de niveles C1 y C2. En la descripción del curso, para [...]