Faculty of English

Seven Arguments with Grief, End of Life Care – A Ghost Story and A Look, A Wave explore, through personal stories, some of the questions and emotions that the pandemic has prompted or intensified. Written and recorded during lockdown, along with video interviews with all those involved, Seven Arguments with Grief, End of Life Care […]

Louise Joy has published a new monograph called Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections. https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030460075 The book assesses the mediating role played by ‘affections’ in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, […]

Modernist Invention: Media Technology and American Poetry attends to the work of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes, and to scenes of communication not often considered in relation to lyric poetics: telegraph posts, snowed-in farmhouses, sickbeds, recording booths, and antebellum watering holes, to name a few. For further information, click here: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/modernist-invention-media-technology-and-american-poetry?format=HB

Professor Nicolette Zeeman has published a new book called ‘The Arts of Disruption. Allegory and Piers Plowman’ (Oxford University Press, 2020). For more information, click here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-arts-of-disruption-9780198860242?cc=gb&lang=en&  

On 25th September at 7.30pm (UK time) Dr Ian Burrows will launch his book Shakespeare for Snowflakes live on Youtube. Dr Burrows will be answering questions from members of the public while in conversation with Dr Lesel Dawson (organiser of the Good Grief Festival; co-editor of Revenge and Gender from Classical to Renaissance Literature; author […]

The award is for Dr Morgan’s first book, Turn-taking in Shakespeare, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The judges comments were as follows: “Oliver Morgan’s Turn-taking in Shakespeare provides a galvanising new way of interpreting Renaissance plays. The mechanisms of dialogue – the sequencing of speakers, their interruptions, pauses, and failures to respond – open out new insights into character, dramaturgy, […]

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/” —

‘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 […]

The Faculty of English fully supports all our members in our commitment to freedom of speech. Members should be able to make lawful expression of challenging views without fear of disrespect or discrimination. We abhor the racist language and threats that have been received by our colleague, Prof Priyamvada Gopal.