The Faculty of English is holding two online study evenings on Thursday 7th and Thursday 14th November 2024. The events are aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English at university. If you are in Year 11 and thinking about taking English next year you are […]
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Faculty of English renews its Athena SWAN bronze award
The Faculty is very pleased to announce that it has renewed its Athena SWAN bronze award status, which it will hold for the next five years. Athena SWAN is an accreditation scheme that recognises and celebrates good practice in higher education promoting gender equality. The renewal rewards great success in following through the previous action […]
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking about the transformative power of art and literature on BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day
Listen to Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking about the transformative power of art and literature on BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jnsnnb
Continue ReadingDr Katrin Ettenhuber awarded prestigious prize by the British Academy
Dr Katrin Ettenhuber has been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 (OUP, 2023). It is the British Academy’s oldest prize, and one of the most significant awards in international literary scholarship. More information can be found here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/rose-mary-crawshay-prize/
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam will give the annual Religion and Literature lecture at the University of Notre Dame on 19th September
The annual Religion and Literature lecture is sponsored this year by The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Departments of Art/Art History/Design, English, Philosophy, Program of Liberal Studies, and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, together with the academic journal Religion & Literature, which also […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Alex Houen gives Keynote Paper at the German Association of English Annual Conference, 16 September 2024
On 16 September, Professor Houen gives a keynote paper entitled “Poets’ Novels and Free Indirect Affect” at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English, University of Augsburg: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/philhist/forschung/tagungen-konferenzen/anglistiktag-2024/academic-programme/
Continue ReadingProfessor Alex Houen publishes ‘Sacrifice and Modern War Writing’ (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Professor Houen’s monograph Sacrifice and Modern War Writing: Atavisms, Martyrdoms, and Economies of Loss has been published online and in hardback by Oxford University Press. The book examines writings by over 110 authors and is the most extensive monograph survey of 20th- and 21st-century war literature to date: https://academic.oup.com/book/57966
Continue ReadingCall for Papers: ‘English Studies in Africa’ Special Issue: The Beat Generation and Africa
English in Studies in Africa invites contributions to a special issue, ‘The Beat Generation and Africa’ guest edited by Eva Kowalska and A. Robert Lee. Over the last few decades, scholarly work on the Beat Generation writers has become increasingly transnational, comparative, and inclusive of work on authors from outside of the core canon of […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman (Clare) publishes ‘Mother State: a political history of motherhood’ (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2024)
When we talk about mothering and politics together, we usually consider isolated moments: the policing of breastfeeding, or the cost of childcare. This book argues that this is not enough, constructing an alternative history of the UK—from the Women’s Liberation Movement to austerity—that reveals motherhood itself to be an inherently political state. ‘Mother State places […]
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