Dr Rod Mengham’s poem ‘Repeat This’ is chosen by Carol Rumens to be The Guardian’s Poem of the Week.  ‘Repeat This’ is taken from Dr Mengham’s 2015 collection, Chance of a Storm, published by Carcanet Press. Dr Mengham has written books on Henry Green, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and on language and cultural […]

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, […]

Dr Sarah Haggarty joins Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time to discuss Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience.  This programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 23 June and is available at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Dr Haggarty is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of English, and a Fellow of Queens’ College. She […]

Headlands – A New Exhibition on the First Floor In 2015 Yvonne Salmon and James Riley travelled through North Cornwall. They went in search of evidence pertaining to two fictional and folkloric events: the filming of the sci-fi drama *The Nightmare Man* (1981) in Port Isaac and the 1645 ‘abduction’ of Ann Jefferies from the […]

Dr Kasia Boddy gives a Keynote entitled ‘American Girl: The Iconographies of Helen Wills’ at ‘Visualities: Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’. This interdisciplinary conference, devoted to the study and analysis of various types of visual sources from the realm of sports, takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 24-26 June 2016.

Dr Elizabeth Savage is awarded this year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, is curated and presented by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut […]

Dr Laura Wright is a Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21,  taking place  at the University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. In 2016, the general theme of Europe’s premier international conference on language in society is Attitudes and Prestige.

Holly Corfield Carr has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for the year 2016/17 in order to research the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. For more information: https://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/hmi-visiting-research-fellowships/fellowships-archive/201617-fellows