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 […]

Dr Amy Gaeta and Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston give a talk on “More Than Gender, More Than Neurodivergence: Autism and Egg Theory” as invited speakers at the Neurodivergent Humanities Network’s symposium Neurodiversity is More Than… on the 4th of March. Link to further information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiversity-is-more-than-tickets-1975828909456

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2026) is edited by Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew L. Reznicek.  Dr Houston’s chapter is on ‘James Joyce’s “The Sisters”: Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse’. Link to further information: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244837

Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n1dpwy And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OO3QCCR8T8oaEilCfvMBY

On Tuesday 17th February, Sarah Dillon will join other panelists for a discussion of narratives in policy-making, at the London School of Economics. The event marks the publication of the LSE Public Policy Review journal’s special issue on Narratives in Policy-making, in which Sarah, along with collaborators, has published her most recent storylistening work.

Ross Wilson will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Walter Benjamin’s Power of Judging’ for the Center of Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, 17th February. Further details here: https://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2026/2/17/ross-wilson-benjamins-power-of-judging

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of postcolonial studies. The essay explores how Dangarembga’s documentary film, Elephant People, depicts community-based wildlife conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Read the essay here.

Professor Alex Houen has published an essay in C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writing.  The title of the essay is ‘Free Indirect Thought Felt and Lived’ and it is one of multiple collated responses to Timothy Bewes’s book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022). Link to journal and essay: https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/25944/

Dr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, discussing labour, productivity and reproduction. Broadcast on Friday 30 January 2026, you can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh2x

Professor Anthony Bale will talk on ‘Conflict, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West’ on Thursday 5 February as part of the University of Hong Kong’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26. During this visit to the University of Hong Kong’s School of English, Professor Bale will also lead a Workshop on ‘The […]