Professor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture, ‘New news’, at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee  on 11 April. Link to further information about the Colloquium: https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/

Conference organisers: Anthony Stonestreet (Third Year English PhD, Homerton) Rachael Hodgson (Third Year English PhD, Murray Edwards) Deadline for submissions: Thursday 28 May Call for Papers:

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), […]