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
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Global Realism Conference, 24-25 April
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
Day-long collaborative reading of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
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
‘Shakespeare in London’ launch event to celebrate the Bard’s birthday
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
Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid wins Kent Union Teaching Award 2015
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 publishes in the LA Review of Books
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: Poet in Residence reads from Telling Tales
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 invited to speak at the Library of Congress
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
Pilgrim’s Way walk in solidarity with refugees and detainees
Writers from the School of English will join leading poets and novelists Ali Smith, Avaes Mohammed, Carol Watts, Denise Riley, Hubert Moore, Patience Agbabi, Iain … Read more
Festival of English 2015 opens at Canterbury Cathedral
The Festival of English 2015 opened last week (Tuesday 3 February) at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Reading Room with a lecture on Chaucer given … Read more