English and American Literature graduate, Erica Williams, tells us about what she’s been up to since leaving Kent in 2010. What are you doing now?  … Read more

Professor of Modern Literature, David Herd, recites passage from Refugee Tales in recent podcast episode of ‘On the road with Penguin Classics‘, hosted by host, … Read more

To mark this year’s LGBTQ+ History Month, we have put together a list of some literary texts (and a few films), which we think will … Read more

Continuing the theme of this year’s LGBT+ History Month: ‘Body, Mind, Spirit.’ To celebrate and recognize this, the School of English’s Centre for Gender, Sexuality … Read more

We caught up with Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Dr Juha Virtanen, to find out more about studying English at Kent. Dr Virtanen shares the … Read more

The theme of this year’s LGBT+ History Month is ‘Body, Mind, Spirit.’ To celebrate and recognize this, the School of English’s Centre for Gender, Sexuality … Read more

Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dr Michael Falk, has recently published an article, Digital Humanities, which has been featured in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia in Literature … Read more

Many of our staff in the School of English are professional writers and publishers. Dorothy Lehane, as well as being a Lecturer in Creative Writing … Read more

The Refugee Tales project recently notched up another success. Since 2015, Refugee Tales has enriched the national conversation about migration and the situation of refugees. Inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury … Read more

We asked our lecturers in the School of English for their recommendations on books, podcasts and films to get stuck into over the festive season, … Read more