Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War and 80 years since the publication of Three Guineas, the 28th Annual International Conference on … Read more
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The Cartographic Imagination
A two-day international conference funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, in conjunction with the Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent … Read more
The Irish Writer in ‘Little England’
How have Irish writers, dramatists, poets, artists, academics, thinkers, activists, performers, and other cultural producers worked to undermine, or indeed, support, an impoverished cultural imaginary … Read more
Horses and Courts: The Reins of Power
Donna Landry of Kent’s Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century is co-hosting an international symposium on courts and horses from the sixteenth century … Read more
The Book Project Module
The Book Project is a hugely popular module with Creative Writing undergraduates at Kent. An intensive course run by Simon Smith, it gets students writing new … Read more
Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel
A new book by Dr Barbara Franchi and Dr Elvan Mutlu looks at how the Victorians viewed and divided space. How did Victorian travelers define … Read more
Poet pens Pride of Britain poem read by actors and sports stars
Patricia was commissioned to write the introductory poem for the show for the third year in a row. Patricia said it was fantastic to be … Read more
Native North Americans in Kent
On Wednesday 1st of November, Professor David Stirrup – principal investigator on ‘Beyond the Spectacle’ – spoke to KMTV about the history of Native North … Read more
Project to reassess history of Native Americans in Britain
The School of English has begun a major three-year project to provide a comprehensive history of Native North Americans in Britain over the last 450 … Read more
Alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who studied for a BA in English and Philosophy at Kent, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017. In awarding the … Read more