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Category: COVID-19

Refugee Tales project reaches school students in lockdown

By | 29 January 2021

The Refugee Tales project recently notched up another success. Since 2015, Refugee Tales has enriched the national conversation about migration and the situation of refugees. Inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury … Read more

Amy Sackville on lockdown and writing for The Guardian

By gjm32 | 23 July 2020

Amy Sackville, Novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, has written a piece for the Guardian entitled ‘I am not … Read more

Third-Year students share their independent research projects in Creative-Critical Showcase

By gjm32 | 28 May 2020

Students on the third-year module EN729 Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance are sharing their independent creative-critical research projects in a Creative-Critical Showcase hosted on … Read more

Jennie Batchelor to give talk on Jane Austen at Lockdown Literary Festival

By gjm32 | 15 May 2020

Professor Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English, will give a talk entitled Jane Austen Embroidery at the Chawton House Lockdown … Read more

Jillian Cadell on Normal People and COVID-19 for CNN

By gjm32 | 11 May 2020

Dr Jillian Caddell, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature in the School of English, has written an opinion piece for CNN on the new adaptation of … Read more

PhD candidate Aysegul Sentug releases podcast mini-series on boredom

By gjm32 | 28 April 2020

Aysegul Salamis Sentug, PhD Candidate in The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research in the School of English, has launched a podcast miniseries, entitled ‘Let’s Get … Read more

Dragan Todorovic launches new Creative Writing prompts series

By gjm32 | 27 April 2020

Dragan Todorovic, author and Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, has created a series of video prompts for Creative Writing students, applicants … Read more

Dr Eleanor Perry launches online creative writing resource

By gjm32 | 24 April 2020

Dr Eleanor Perry, Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, has launched a new online creative resource entitled Writing Minds. Creative writing can … Read more

English at Kent: resources for applicants

By gjm32 | 21 April 2020

All of us at the School of English are keenly aware that we are living through an uncertain time for everyone – especially applicants whose … Read more

Dragan Todorovic on self-isolation and creative writing

By gjm32 | 20 April 2020

Dragan Todorovic, author and Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, was interviewed by Steve Ladner on BBC Radio Kent’s Mid Morning programme … Read more

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