Category: Events

The School of English is hosting a lecture and drinks reception as part of the University of Kent’s 50th Festival on Saturday 5 September. Rod … Read more

On the 14 May friends and former colleagues of the late Professor Frank Cioffi came togther at Kent to celebrate the launch of a The … Read more

Entitled, ‘Reading Chaucer’ this year’s lecture will be given by Professor A.S.G. Edwards of the University of Kent. Taking place on Friday, 29th May at … Read more

The Festival of English Tokaido Road: Chamber opera  A Journey after Hiroshige Saturday 23 May, 7.30pm – Gulbenkian Theatre Okeanos Ensemble Nicola LeFanu composer Nancy … Read more

This Friday (24 April) sees the start of a 2-day conference on `Global Realism: Capital, Empire, and the Politics of Form`convened by Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh … Read more

On Thursday 26 March staff and students from the School of English collaborated on a day-long reading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel The Waves. The … Read more

A new book on Shakespeare’s London co-authored by School of English Early Modern Literature specialist Dr Sarah Dustagheer will be launched at Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus, on 23 … 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

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