English at Kent ranked 26th out of 107 UK institutions in the Complete University Guide 2017, an increase of four places on last year’s league … Read more
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Vybarr Cregan-Reid and Catherine Richardson appear on BBC radio
The School of English’s Vybarr Cregan-Reid was on national radio last week discussing his forthcoming book Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human. Peter White of … Read more
Writers renew call to end indefinite immigration detention
Many of the UK’s leading writers and poets have renewed their call to end indefinite immigration detention by participating in Refugee Tales 2016 (3-8 July). … Read more
Exhibition reveals the therapeutic power of bookmaking
Artwork by a little-known US artist, who used book making as a form of therapy in her battle against cancer, will go on show at … Read more
School of English success stories
The School has been overwhelmed with good news stories of late. Here are a few highlights: Film rights sold to recent graduate’s first novel School … Read more
Shakespeare 400 comes to Canterbury
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and it is being marked nationally and internationally by events and celebrations of the … Read more
Amy Sackville and Vybarr Cregan-Reid appear in the Literary Review
Two academic staff in the School of English appeared in this month’s Literary Review. Amy Sackville has reviewed Amy Liptrot’s new memoir The Outrun. The book … Read more
The Great Lady’s Magazine Stitch Off goes to Chawton House Library
Before Christmas, the Leverhulme-funded Lady’s Magazine project that Jennie Batchelor, Koenraad Claes and Jenny DiPlacidi are working on, launched a public engagement initiative called the … Read more
Award-winning journalist Amira Hass to speak at Kent
The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (in collaboration with the Palestine Centre at SOAS, University of London) has invited Amira Hass, Israel’s leading reporter … Read more
Postgraduate taster courses at the Tonbridge Centre
The School of English will be offering two short postgraduate taster courses at the University’s Tonbridge Centre in 2016. English and American Literature: British Romanticism … Read more