The final Festival of English event will take place on the Canterbury campus next week. Dr Derek Ryan will be giving a paper entitled ‘Virginia Woolf: Voyaging Out, 1910-1915’ at 18.00 on Tuesday 17 November in GLT1 as part of the Festival Open Lecture Series which highlights Canterbury and Kent’s prominent literary figures. A wine reception to follow in the Grimond Foyer. All are warmly welcome.

English Literature was one of the University of Kent’s founding subjects and to celebrate the milestone of fifty years at the forefront of local, national and international literary studies the School hosted the Festival of English throughout 2015. Highlights included a residency by the renowned poet Patience Agbabi, the Open Lecture Series and a performance of the opera Tokaido Road, based on the award-winning poems by Nancy Gaffield, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. We would like to thank all those that supported the festival by participating and attending over the last year.