Category: News

Where is our Home? The Kent postgraduate community organised an interdisciplinary conference reflecting on the meaning of the word ‘home’. Co-organised by English PhD students … Read more

School of English alumna Emmi Itäranta launched her debut novel at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus where the first chapter was written during her studies in 2008. Emmi, … Read more

Festival Review  (Festival organisers: Georgie Evans, Peter Adkins, Joel Tennant) I don’t think any of us had quite envisioned quite how much fun (and hard work) … Read more

The Marcel Duchamp Festival, which took place in Herne Bay last summer, was nominated in 4 categories in the East Kent Cultural Awards. The winners were … Read more

‘Found in Translation’ was a one-day interdisciplinary conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the 30 May. The conference was aimed at postgraduate students from … Read more

The School of English hosted the Amiri Baraka Retrospective conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts  on 12 April, 2014. The conference considered and critiqued one of the … Read more

Kent Review Vol. 1 has arrived! A party at Waterstones in Canterbury on 14th May celebrated the launch of the anthology. Staff, students, and guests … Read more

School of English alumnus George Temple has been awarded a prestigious fully funded scholarship to study for a PhD at the Simon Fraser University in … Read more

On 20 May the School of English hosted a book launch to celebrate the publication of Nancy Gaffield’s most recent collection of poetry Continental Drift. … Read more

Dr Jennie Batchelor (Reader in Eighteenth Century Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century) has been awarded a prestigious … Read more