Artwork by a little-known US artist, who used book making as a form of therapy in her battle against cancer, will go on show at … Read more
School of English success stories
The School has been overwhelmed with good news stories of late. Here are a few highlights: Film rights sold to recent graduate’s first novel School … Read more
Shakespeare 400 comes to Canterbury
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and it is being marked nationally and internationally by events and celebrations of the … Read more
Amy Sackville and Vybarr Cregan-Reid appear in the Literary Review
Two academic staff in the School of English appeared in this month’s Literary Review. Amy Sackville has reviewed Amy Liptrot’s new memoir The Outrun. The book … Read more
The Great Lady’s Magazine Stitch Off goes to Chawton House Library
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
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