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
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Call for Papers: Cross-Disciplinary Phenomenology
SYMPOSIUM Cross-Disciplinary Phenomenology: A Readiness for the Questionable (Canterbury, Kent, 24 June 2016) Name of organization: The School of English, University of Kent supported by Oxford … 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
Abdulrazak Gurnah appointed to Man Booker Prize judges panel
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English, has been appointed as one of the judges for the 2016 Man … Read more
The Guardian ‘Best Novels of 2015’
Alex Preston (Lecturer in Creative Writing) appeared in the Guardian over the weekend, contributing to their ‘Best Books of 2015’ series. Alex’s ‘Best Novels of … Read more
Special screening of ‘Carol’ at Curzon Canterbury
The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing will be hosting a post-screening panel discussion of the film Carol at the Curzon cinema in Canterbury on Sunday 6th … Read more
‘The Queer Persistence of Shakespeare’: Professor Stephen Guy-Bray
‘The Queer Persistence of Shakespeare’ Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (British Columbia) Chair: Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) 5pm, Monday 23 November Eliot Lecture Theatre 2 … Read more
Festival of English Open Lecture: Woolf
The final Festival of English event will take place on the Canterbury campus next week. Dr Derek Ryan will be giving a paper entitled ‘Virginia … Read more
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2015
The School of English and the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Kent were proud sponsors of this year’s Canterbury Festival Poet of … Read more