Category: News

This week sees the start of the Wise Words Festival 2013, running from Thursday 12 –Sunday 16 September, taking place in and around the City … Read more

In a new initiative for the 2013/14 academic year, single and joint honours students of English and American Literature taking the year-long compulsory Stage 1 … Read more

On Sunday 1 September Canterbury-based poets and readers will enact a ‘completion’ of the Canterbury Tales journey, walking the final (partly unfinished) leg of the … Read more

Graduates from the School of English at the University of Kent are among the most employable in the UK. 67% of English students that graduated … Read more

Dr Will Norman, Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English, has received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. The scholarship, which begins this academic year, … Read more

This year will mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Events are being organised up and down the country to celebrate … Read more

Over the last few weeks the School of English has been eagerly anticipating the opening of the Marcel Duchamp ‘I am not dead festival‘ in Herne … Read more

Two university dance enthusiasts (including our very own Head of School, Professor Peter Brown) recently enjoyed a meeting with TV dancing stars, Vincent Simone and … Read more

Reading as a Contemporary Art at the ICA was a sell-out in the Friday Salon slot on the 5th of July. An enthusiastic audience participated … Read more

Stuart Morrison, a final year English and American Literature student, gave his first conference paper last week entitled: The role of signatures in the creation of … Read more