Faculty of English

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Arundhati Roy in Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives. Turning to Roy’s 2017 novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the chapter asks how her representation of vulture extinction challenges the ways we tend to think about species endangerment. Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives is […]

This symposium will think about how narratives of risk are employed in legal and social institutions and how emergent narratives of risk are driving new forms of legal inquiry and ways of thinking about criminal responsibility. It will draw together legal scholars, criminologists, journalists, and narrative theorists to investigate the question of risky character in […]

The 2025 Henn Lecture at St Catharine’s College will be given by Hester Lees-Jeffries (University Associate Professor and Fellow) on 1 December at 5.30pm. Entitled ‘Shakespeare and the early modern textile imagination’, it will present material from her new book, Textile Shakespeare, and will be followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the book’s publication. […]

Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mgcl37 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/44fHgV6uJqaFiGL1oYdjVQ Catch up on other recent broadcasts by Prof. Hurley on: AI, beauty, language.  

A performance followed by a discussion with Jay Bernard. Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. Her work is challenging and direct, bringing a subtle London edge to Black avant-garde traditions stemming from Europe, the Caribbean and America. Core to her […]

A new book on Shakespeare and material culture – specifically textile culture – by Hester Lees-Jeffries (University Associate Professor) will be published by Oxford University Press on 11 November.  Textile Shakespeare takes as its starting point the centrality of cloth to the culture and economy of early modern England, as it explores what it terms […]

Dr Sarah Kennedy has a chapter published today in The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press), contributing new insight into the work of the celebrated Australian poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. This landmark volume edited by Ann Vickery and Philip Mead brings together First Nations experts, internationally recognised scholars, distinguished practitioners, and emerging […]

Juliette Bretan has been awarded a one-month Fellowship at the Nordost Institut in Lüneburg, to look at the idea of the study of Eastern Europe in English and European culture. The Nordost Institut is a research institution focusing on the history and culture of Germans in northeastern Europe as well as the history and culture […]