Author: EC

Professor David Herd’s recent essay ‘The View from Dover’ has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay discusses the ‘Citadel’ at … Read more

Patience Agbabi, sought-after poet, performer, mentor and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University will be reading from her poetry collection Telling Tales at … Read more

Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah (Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in the School of English) has been invited … Read more

Writers from the School of English will join leading poets and novelists Ali Smith, Avaes Mohammed, Carol Watts, Denise Riley, Hubert Moore, Patience Agbabi, Iain … Read more

The Festival of English 2015 opened last week (Tuesday 3 February) at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Reading Room with a lecture on Chaucer given … Read more

David Nicholls, critically acclaimed author of One Day, will be opening the spring season of the Creative Writing Reading Series on Wednesday 28 January. David’s … Read more

A recent article by Dr Sarah James (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature) has been selected as one of the Editors’ Choice Articles for 2015 by … Read more

The Research Excellence Framework 2014 has produced very strong results for the School of English at Kent. With 74% of our work graded as world-leading … Read more

Emmi Itäranta’s first novel Memory of Water has been listed as the one of the best science fiction novels of 2014 in a Guardian Review. … Read more

The School of English welcomed academic staff from Kogakkan University, Ise, Japan and the Ise Mayor, Kenichi Suzuki and his delegation in November. Kogakkan University … Read more