Juliette Bretan talks about her review of ‘Europe in British Literature and Culture’ on the TLS Podcast

Juliette Bretan features on this week’s Times Literary Supplement (TLS) podcast, talking about her review of ‘Europe in British Literature and Culture’ (CUP, 2024), edited by Petra Rau and William T Rossiter. To listen to the podcast: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/the-podcast/the-tls-podcast-october-10-2024. To read the review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/literary-criticism/europe-in-british-literature-and-culture-petra-rau-william-r-rossiter-book-review-juliette-bretan. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of […]

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Read Dr Dominic O’Key’s article on Nobel Prize winner, Han Kang

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to Han Kang. The Swedish Academy praised the South Korean author for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Dr Dominic O’Key, a Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published an article on Han’s work that explores the […]

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Online Book Launch: ‘Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology’, Wednesday 2 October, 12-1.30pm

Online book launch of Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology Edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson Published with the Technographies Series of Open Humanities Press (2024).  Series editors: Steven Connor, David Trotter, James Purdon Wednesday 2 October 2024 12-1:30pm on Zoom Register here for the link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centrefordronesandculture/1393136 The editors will be in conversation with the […]

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Faculty of English renews its Athena SWAN bronze award

The Faculty is very pleased to announce that it has renewed its Athena SWAN bronze award status, which it will hold for the next five years. Athena SWAN is an accreditation scheme that recognises and celebrates good practice in higher education promoting gender equality. The renewal rewards great success in following through the previous action […]

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Dr Katrin Ettenhuber awarded prestigious prize by the British Academy

Dr Katrin Ettenhuber has been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 (OUP, 2023).  It is the British Academy’s oldest prize, and one of the most significant awards in international literary scholarship.  More information can be found here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/rose-mary-crawshay-prize/

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