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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

Bettbehandlung is a feminist re-visioning of historical and medical treatments of ‘hysterical’ female subjects and performative spaces of illness. It focuses on historical acts of diagnosis and the shifting of bodily propriety, alongside issues … Read more

Dragan Todorovic was interviewed on the Julia George programme last Tuesday, discussing the theme ‘books started but never finished.’ In the ten minute segment, Dragan … Read more

The world’s premier solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie told students that she was ‘out of her comfort zone’ playing alongside pioneering Scottish ensemble Trio HLK … Read more

Emerita Professor Jan Montefiore is to feature on the Radio 3 series ‘Minds at War’ on Tuesday, delivering a talk on Kipling’s “Epitaphs of the … Read more

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

14th November, 18:00, Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 In her inaugural lecture, Catherine Richardson, will discuss the difference between London and the provinces in Shakespeare’s time, and what that might … Read more

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

According to the Food Standards Agency, estimates suggest that about 5-8% of children and 1-2% of adults are affected by food allergies in the UK. The … Read more

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan and Catherine Waters was launched by Malcolm Andrews, Emeritus Professor of … Read more