Professor Clair Wills elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, July 2020

Congratulations to Professor Clair Wills (Faculty of English and Murray Edwards College) who has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her work on 20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration. The full announcement can be read here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-across-humanities-and-social-sciences/” —

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‘WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper’ by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English) is now available from University of Iowa Press.

‘WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper’ by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English) is now available from University of Iowa Press. https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386917/wrong Description: Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, Dennis Cooper has been a punk poet, a queercore […]

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