Dr Jennifer Wallace is invited to speak about “Byron and Greece: A ‘motley scene’” at a concert arranged to honour his memory in this bicentenary year at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens on Tuesday 1st October.

Online book launch of Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology Edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson Published with the Technographies Series of Open Humanities Press (2024).  Series editors: Steven Connor, David Trotter, James Purdon Wednesday 2 October 2024 12-1:30pm on Zoom Register here for the link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centrefordronesandculture/1393136 The editors will be in conversation with the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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/

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 […]

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/

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 […]