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The Festival of English Tokaido Road: Chamber opera  A Journey after Hiroshige Saturday 23 May, 7.30pm – Gulbenkian Theatre Okeanos Ensemble Nicola LeFanu composer Nancy … Read more

In light of several newly approved postgraduate programmes the School of English has extended its MA scholarship deadline for entry in 2015. All students who … Read more

The School of English and the Centre for American Studies are delighted announce the launch of a new online journal. Transmotion is a biannual, fully and … Read more

This Friday (24 April) sees the start of a 2-day conference on `Global Realism: Capital, Empire, and the Politics of Form`convened by Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh … Read more

On Thursday 26 March staff and students from the School of English collaborated on a day-long reading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel The Waves. The … Read more

A new book on Shakespeare’s London co-authored by School of English Early Modern Literature specialist Dr Sarah Dustagheer will be launched at Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus, on 23 … Read more

The Kent Union Teaching Awards recognise and reward those academics who are committed to delivering excellent teaching. Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Senior Lecturer in English and … Read more

Professor David Herd’s recent essay ‘The View from Dover’ has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay discusses the ‘Citadel’ at … Read more

Patience Agbabi, sought-after poet, performer, mentor and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University will be reading from her poetry collection Telling Tales at … Read more

Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah (Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in the School of English) has been invited … Read more