The launches for this term’s Book Project were probably the most exciting part of the entire module. Getting to hold and display physical copies of your work was surreal. There was a sense…
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 of English alumna Emmi Itäranta…
Professor David Herd, Head of the School of English at Kent, talks about his part in the Refugee Tales project. For more information about the project please click here.
In the module we studied a wide and diverse range of literature, spanning all the way from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. We generally focused on one…
It took me a little while to settle on Hong Kong as my Year Abroad destination, simply because it seemed so distanced from Kent- both geographically and culturally. In the…
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 Booker Prize for Fiction. Professor…
When I applied for the Internship to work with the Turner Contemporary, through the University of Kent, I didn’t fully appreciate the scale of the project I would be joining.…
On Saturday 7th November 2015 the School of English held its fourth annual English at Kent Day, an event which enables prospective students to experience being an English student for…
My experience of the University of Kent has been amazing so far. Naturally, I was nervous to go to university. Living in a new place did seem daunting, but the…
We asked some of our students firstly why they chose to study English at Kent and secondly why they were glad that they had made that decision. Here is what…