Author: EC

Daný van Dam and Lara Atkin report from a conference celebrating the fascinating cast of opera singers, mountaineers, cross-dressers, actors and tourists of both genders … Read more

The 35th Annual Dickens Universe, and the “Long, Wide Nineteenth Century” conference, both sponsored by the Dickens Project, were held consecutively 31 August- 08 August … Read more

After a successful collaboration last March between Kent Union and the Centre for Gender Sexuality and Writing, it was decided that a reprise was long … Read more

University of Kent, 13-14 June 2015 Now that over half a century has passed since Lionel Abel coined the term ‘metatheatre’ with particular reference to … Read more

Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance Conference Report 5th-7th September 2014, University of Kent Human experience of time and space has … Read more

Who would not enjoy a week on a lovely Californian campus, drinking tea, meeting eminent academics and fellow-students while discussing a book? As the lucky … Read more

Dr Jennie Batchelor (Reader in Eighteenth Century Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century) has been awarded a prestigious … Read more

A 2-day symposium presented by the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent (Canterbury) on 2-3 May 2014. In collaboration with the Associazione … Read more

On 20 May the School of English hosted a book launch to celebrate the publication of Nancy Gaffield’s most recent collection of poetry Continental Drift. Attended by friends, family … Read more

Without Mastery, Dr Sarah Wood (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)  Without Mastery comes from outside the current scene. It takes its bearings from writers and characters that … Read more