Faculty of English

Timothy Glover has curated an exhibition of medieval manuscripts and early modern books at the Parker Library. This exhibition explores the practical kinds of books priests used to educate ordinary people, including manuscripts that teach through diagrams, flowcharts, unusual page layouts, and pictures. Tours take place on Tuesday afternoons in July (see here for availability), and […]

Co-edited with Professor Bruce Robbins, Teaching Politically (Fordham University Press) brings together a global group of academics, activists, public intellectuals, poets, and novelists to examine the way politics manifest pedagogically, and how a commitment to educating manifests politically, in and beyond the classroom. At the heart of the discussion is how political and professional paradigms […]

The journal Arthurian Literature awards the Derek Brewer Prize for a scholarly paper on an Arthurian topic. This year’s prize has been awarded to Dr François·e Charmaille for their essay “Transgender Grammar in the Tale of Grisandole.” The essay will be published in the 2026 issue of Arthurian Literature.

Amy Morris will be giving a keynote lecture entitled ‘Putting it all Together: Early American Literature and Modern Art’ at the University of East Anglia’s ‘In The Making’, a summer celebration of critical and creative work by PhD students in UEA’s Literature, Drama and Creative Writing programme.

Professor Subha Mukherji gives a keynote speech on ‘Knowing Encounters: towards an intermedial poetics in early modern culture’ at the Society for Renaissance Studies 11th Biennial Conference in Bristol, Wednesday 2 July-Saturday 5 July.  

The conference, Tragic Forms Across Europe and Beyond, takes place from 2-3 July 2025 at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.  Dr Wallace gives her Keynote Lecture, entitled ‘Tragic Forms for Global Warming: Hamartia in the Anthropocene’, on Wednesday 2 July.

The title of the article is Eliot’s “Polish plains”  and it is part of ‘The Eliot We Need’ Special Forum of The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching depictions of Poland and East Central Europe in twentieth-century anglophone and Polish literature.

Professor Pettitt gives her Plenary Lecture, entitled ‘Speed, Relay and the Digital Empire’, on Thursday 19 June, at ‘Speed and Acceleration‘, the 2025 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference.  INCS takes place in Genoa, Italy, from 18-20 June.