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Following the death last year of Professor Reg Foakes, the School of English and the Gulbenkian Theatre commissioned a memorial plaque in his name. Reg … Read more

Claire Hurley, a third year PhD student in the School of English, has been awarded this year’s Christine and Ian Bolt scholarship. The scholarship was … Read more

Olympic Poet, Lemn Sissay, and the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, are just two of the major stars featuring at this year’s Wise Words … Read more

Results published today reveal that in the National Student Survey 2014 our students gave us an outstanding rating of 94% for overall student satisfaction. The … Read more

Early June at the University of Kent saw the UK’s first ever creative writing undergraduate conference, an event designed to provide ambitious and enthusiastic students … 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

School of English alumna Emmi Itäranta launched her debut novel at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus where the first chapter was written during her studies in 2008. Emmi, … Read more

Festival Review  (Festival organisers: Georgie Evans, Peter Adkins, Joel Tennant) I don’t think any of us had quite envisioned quite how much fun (and hard work) … Read more

The Marcel Duchamp Festival, which took place in Herne Bay last summer, was nominated in 4 categories in the East Kent Cultural Awards. The winners were … 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