Jill Damatac gives a paper at ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: the consequence of emigration for sending countries’, CRASSH Interdisciplinary Conference, 27-28 January 2022

Jill Damatac’s paper, ‘Literatures of the left behind: Missing mama and papa in the Philippines’, examines poetry, short stories, and novels focusing on family members left behind by parents working overseas as part of the Philippine labor export industry.  It is presented on the second day of the conference, Friday 28 January, in the closing […]

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Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi wins the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award

Mathelinda Nabugodi, has won the 2021 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for her “engaging and fascinating” work of non-fiction The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive. The Award gives £10,000 to an unpublished writer with outstanding literary talent, to enable them to complete a first book, either fiction or non-fiction. Dr […]

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Professor Sarah Dillon was on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ to discuss ‘The Day of the Triffids’, Thursday 2 December 2021

Professor Sarah Dillon joined presenter Matthew Sweet to discuss the resonance of John Wyndham’s novel, The Day of the Triffids, 60 years on from its publication. Other guests were writers Amy Binns and Tanvir Bush, and broadcaster Peter White. Sarah Dillon is a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. Her most recent book is ‘Storylistening: Narrative […]

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Dr Rebecca Anne Barr is awarded the 2022-23 Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy at CRASSH

The aim of the Fellowship is to enable scholars developing interests in philosophical study from an interdisciplinary perspective to spend additional time exploring these.  Dr Barr’s project is on ‘Philosophies of Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction’. Once designated the ‘Age of Reason’, the eighteenth century has been recast in recent work as the ‘Age of […]

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‘Forms of Late Modernist Lyric’, edited by Edward Allen, and featuring the work of several members of the Faculty of English, is published by Liverpool University press, November 2021

A collection of essays entitled Forms of Late Modernist Lyric has been published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Edward Allen, and featuring the work of several members of the Faculty of English – Ruth Abbott, Fiona Green, Drew Milne, Esther Osorio Whewell, and Sophie Read – the collection makes the case for a variegated theory of […]

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‘Oh, to Be a Painter!’ Claudia Tobin selects and introduces a collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts

The twentieth volume in David Zwirner Books’ ekphrasis series (published late November 2021), this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the author. Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of […]

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