School of English alumna Shahd AlShammari won the Social Impact Award at this year’s British Council Study UK Alumni Awards in Kuwait on Tuesday 5 March. … Read more
Category: Global Impact
Introducing Saima Afreen, Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow for 2019
The School of English is pleased to welcome Ms Saima Afreen, who will be working at the School of English until May 8th. The Charles … Read more
School of English student appointed as Summer Field Communications Officer in Costa Rica
Caitlin Casey, a student on the School’s English and American Literature and Creative Writing with a Placement Year programme, has been invited to undertake a … Read more
MOVES – Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges
This doctoral programme is defined by a unique collaboration between university researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences and partners across sectors (NGOs, charities working with … Read more
The Return of the Mughal
New book by Alex Padamsee, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the School of English, published by Palgrave Macmillan This Pivot explores the uses … Read more
Sex after ’68
May ’68 captured a revolution in many aspects of social life, but few have considered how the discourse and understanding of sex changed since this … Read more
On Abdulrazak Gurnah: Belonging, Colonialism, Arrival
This special event is dedicated to engaging the work of Abdulrazak Gurnah: one of the most important contemporary postcolonial novelists writing in Britain today. It … Read more
New print and audio release of Nancy Gaffield’s Tokaido Road
This book is an invitation to go on a poetic journey through timeless Japanese pictures of the floating world (ukiyo-e). In this anthology, a meaningful … Read more
School of English receives grant worth £450,000 to investigate organised crime
Professor Caroline Rooney will join Dr Raphaël Lefèvre (Oxford University) on a three-year project examining the impact of Transnational Organised Crime (TNOC) emanating from deprived districts … Read more
Kent Hosts Indigenous Canadian Film Maker Jooles Koostachin
The Centre for American Studies is delighted to host indigenous Canadian film maker, Jooles Koostachin, during her visit to the UK for the 12th Native … Read more