An article by Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, features on the front cover of this week’s Times Literary Supplement (TLS), … Read more
Category: Centre for Modern European Literature
Comparative Literature student on BBC2’s University Challenge
Alexander Atmore, an undergraduate student from the Department of Comparative Literature will be appearing on BBC2’s long running quiz University Challenge tonight, 27 July 2015, as part … Read more
Axel Stähler co-edits companion to Jewish fiction
Dr Axel Stähler, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, has just co-edited with Professor David Brauner (University of Reading), The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish … Read more
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán on Latin-American literature and medicine
Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán from the Department of Comparative Literature has just edited a new collection, Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (Routledge, … Read more
Skepsi to hold its 8th conference on ‘Disgust’
Skepsi will be holding its 8th annual conference later in the month, under the theme ‘Disgust’. The event will be held over two days, 29 and … Read more
Author Emmi Itäranta to read at Kent
Finnish science-fiction author Emmi Itäranta will be giving a reading of her book Memory of Water (Harper Voyager, 2014) for the Centre of Modern European … Read more
Wellcome Trust award for Larry Duffy
Dr Larry Duffy from the Department of Modern Languages has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Medical Humanities for his research project … Read more
Research award for critical edition on HC Artmann
Dr Heide Kunzelmann from the Department of German has won funding from the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach [German Literary Archive Marbach] for her project to compile a … Read more
PhD student to give Sylvia Naish lecture
Melanie Dilly, a PhD student in German and Comparative Literature, has won the 2015 Sylvia Naish Lecture Competition and will deliver her lecture entitled ‘One … Read more
PhD student publishes on poetry in the Third Reich
Stefanie Hundehege, a PhD student in the Department of German, supervised by Dr Deborah Holmes, has just published a chapter in an anthology about writers … Read more