The University is delighted to be hosting the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2015 International Conference on ‘Creative Style’, from 15-18 July 2015 in Woolf College.

PALA is the leading international academic association for those who work in stylistics, poetics, and associated fields of language and linguistics and the annual conference is the main event of the year for members.

This year’s conference has been organised by Dr Jeremy Scott, from the Department of English Language & Linguistics, and has over 180 delegates including high profile speakers such as Katie Wales (University of Nottingham) on ‘Thing Theory Meets Prosopodoeia’ and Michael Toolan (University of Birmingham) on ‘Harris and Leech on Creativity and the Teaching of Poetry’.

The conference also includes a series of special interest groups on Crime Writing, Pragmatic Literary Stylistics, Creative Writing, and Reader Response Research in Stylistics. Further details and the full programme of events can be found at http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/creative-style-conference

The PALA Conference will be preceded by a three-day summer school on critical stylistics, taught by leading scholars in the field and aimed at undergraduates and postgraduate students with interests in intersections between language and literature. Further details are available at: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/creative-style-conference/crime-writing-sig/pala-summer-school/