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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

The School of English hosted the Amiri Baraka Retrospective conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts  on 12 April, 2014. The conference considered and critiqued one of the … Read more

Paris was home to so many eighteenth-century philosophers, there could be no more suitable place in which to revisit the history of the Enlightenment. A … Read more

Reflections around the Eight Annual Feminist Theory Workshop Duke University, 21-22 March 2014 The Feminist Theory Workshops organized by Duke Women’s Studies are a worldly-renowned … Read more

All Just, the latest collection of poetry by David Herd, Professor of Modern Literature in the School of English, has been described as ‘one of … Read more

Professor Donna Landry provided a keynote address at the Centre for 18th Century Studies conference, ‘Encounters, Affinities. Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day’ … Read more