A Serbian translation of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, by Anthony Bale, was published by Laguna in March 2026.  Link to further information: https://laguna.rs/proizvodi/knjige/turisticki-vodic-kroz-srednji-vek/ A Hebrew translation, published last month by Keter Books, was the subject of a long review article in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, available here.

Louis Klee has been awarded the 2025 University English Book Prize for The Constellational Novel (Oxford University Press, 2025). Link to further information: https://universityenglish.ac.uk/ue-2025-book-prize-winner/

Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n88xqj And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AQHp0IWb5mewhYOt9Rv0M

Professor Hurley will give a paper on “Newman’s Sources of the Self” at a panel “drawing new maps of hope” to navigate the current challenges of our wounded world with wisdom, courage, and renewed purpose for individuals, communities, and future generations: https://convergenceuk.org/drawing-maps-of-new-hope The panel on Newman is part of Convergence, a two-day cultural event (28-29 March) […]

Professor Orietta Da Rold has been named one of twelve lecturers to receive the prestigious 2026 Pilkington Prize, an award established in 1994 by Sir Alastair Pilkington to recognise and acknowledge excellence in teaching. Professor Da Rold was credited as ‘an inspirational teacher whose visionary approach to teaching has had a transformative effect felt far […]

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English, served as gender-diversity consultant to the Cambridge Festival this year.

Zoë Svendsen and Roman Senkl give a keynote lecture on Story.glitch and the Politics of Interactivity, at ‘ANALOGUE vs. DIGITAL HUMAN feat. ART’, an international, interdisciplinary conference organised by the Theatre Faculty of Janáček Academy of Performing Arts Brno (JAMU), in the Czech Republic, 26-27 February 2026. Link to further information about the conference: https://www.theatreconferencejamu.cz/en/keynote-speakers

This improvised evening session will be centred on the idea of “catastrophe”. Open to the public, featuring readings of both newly created and canonical texts, audience members are invited to bring short texts / poems / songs that respond to the topic. Central to the evening will be poet and professor D.S Marriott (Emory University), […]

Lloyd Meadhbh Houston will be performing in a work-in-progress sharing of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Playwriting finalist Danielle James’ new play Sun Day as part of the Front & Centre: International Women’s Day Playwriting Festival in Derry from the 6th till the 8th of March. Link to further information about the Festival: https://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/front-centre-international-womens-day-playwriting-festival Link to further information […]

On Monday 2nd March, Professor Sarah Dillon will join presenter Tom Sutcliffe on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week to discuss “why we should read”. She joins alongside fellow guests, the publisher Margaret Busby and the writer Lottie Moggach. BBC programme billing: “The UK government has declared 2026, the National Year of Reading. The numbers […]