Dr Alison Knight Awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2017-2020

Dr Alison Knight is awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for 2017-2020, to work on a project entitled “Stranger Churches: Hate Speech and Religious Refugees in Early Modern England.” For this project, Dr Knight explores the heated public discourse surrounding risks and responsibilities toward migrant European Protestant populations in sixteenth century England, primarily Dutch and French […]

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Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill Dies Aged 84

The Faculty is sad to note the death of Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill on 30th June.  Geoffrey Hill came from a lectureship at Leeds to a teaching Fellowship in English at Emmanuel from 1981 until 1988, during which time he lectured in the Faculty.  He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel in 1990, and […]

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Congratulations to Hunter Dukes!

The English Faculty would like to offer our congratulations to PhD Student, Hunter Dukes; this year’s national first-prize winner of the British Association for Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay Competition. The competition is open to graduate students researching topics in Irish Studies across all disciplines. Ms Dukes attended an awards ceremony hosted by the Irish Ambassador, […]

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