Category: Research

The Research Excellence Framework 2014 has produced very strong results for the School of English at Kent. With 74% of our work graded as world-leading … Read more

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

‘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

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

On March 18, the School of English and MEMS will host scholars at a symposium about Christopher Marlowe’s plays. Canterbury-born Marlowe was a leading playwright … Read more

The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing will be hosting a series of lunchtime conversations about writing, sexuality and history next week (17th-21st February) to mark LGBT History … Read more

Dr Norbert Bugeja has been awarded the sum of € 5,000 for the translation into English of a collection of fifty of his poems, that … Read more

With contributions from Professor Caroline Rooney (Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies) and in association with the Global Uncertainties programme, the critically acclaimed Moving … Read more