Category: Staff News

Professor David Stirrup’s extensive research into Indigenous people from North America, and their journey to, and life in Britain, is one of nine selected Arts … Read more

Erasmus+ funding has been awarded to the University of Kent to lead a project supporting higher education reform in Georgia.  Kent will work with Ilia State University (ISU), which is based in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi to support initiatives focused on curriculum … Read more

To mark the 100th anniversary of Agatha Christie releasing her first novel, Professor Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English, was interviewed by … Read more

Professor David Stirrup, Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies in the School of English, has commented on Hasting Museum & Art Gallery’s new Indigenous … Read more

Dr Callan Davies, Research Associate in the School of English, has published a monograph entitled Strangeness in Jacobean Drama (Routledge, 2020). In his book, Callan … Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, School of English Emeritus Professor, has just published a new novel, entitled Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2020). Afterlives tells the story of three characters whose lives … Read more

Professor David Stirrup, Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies in the School of English, has provided a comment for an article entitled Native Americans … Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, School of English Emeritus Professor, has had his new novel Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2020) reviewed in the Evening Standard. Afterlives tells the story of three … Read more

Professor Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English, will host ‘Crafting through COVID: A Virtual Sew Along and Conversation‘ with practising … Read more

Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies, has edited a special issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on ‘Jonathan Swift and Queerness’, published … Read more