Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships Applications Open (Deadline 31/10/23)

The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic welcome applications from potential applicants for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme 2024. The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF) is a highly prestigious and competitive, post-doctoral award for researchers who are near the start of their career. The Leverhulme Trust awards approximately 100 three-year […]

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Ross Wilson publishes ‘Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750–2020’, Oxford University Press, September 2023

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Link to further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/critical-forms-9780198881117?lang=en&cc=au#

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Dr Julia Empey co-edits “Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From ‘Annihilation’ to ‘High Life’ and Beyond”, published by Bloomsbury, September 2023

Science fiction (SF) as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations and human exceptionalism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist and feminist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. Where typically […]

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Bhanu Kapil is offering a workshop as part of a conference organized by the European Alliance of Academies: “On Freedom of Artistic Expression in Literature in the 21st Century”

The conference, organized by the European Alliance of Academies, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Literature, takes place at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 26-27 August 2023. Link to further information about the conference: https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-08/eaoa_homerton-college_2023_booklet.pdf

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