Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Amitav Ghosh in Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture. The chapter, co-written with Akshita Bhardwaj (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), tracks Ghosh’s shifting representations of endangered cetaceans in his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019). Blue Extinction is edited by Vera […]
Continue Reading‘Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice’ edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025
Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025. Link to further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74093-0 Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice is part of the ‘Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature’ book series. Subha Mukherji is Editor-in-Chief for the series. Series Editors […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is proud to congratulate and support Ally Louks, one of our PhD students, who passed her viva last week with no corrections
The Faculty of English is proud to congratulate and support Ally Louks, one of our PhD students, who passed her viva last week with no corrections. Her thesis ‘Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose’ studies how literature registers the importance of olfactory discourse – the language of smell and the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale is made an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Bale was made an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London, on 4 December 2024. Link to further information: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fellows
Continue ReadingClair Wills wins Non-Fiction Book of the Year for ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ at the An Post Irish Book Awards, November 2024
Clair Wills received the 2024 WHSmith Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award for ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ at the awards ceremony which took place in Dublin on 27 November. First awarded in 2006, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Link to […]
Continue ReadingDominic O’Key gives plenary lecture on extinction at the University of Leeds
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has been invited to give a plenary lecture at a symposium on extinction at University of Leeds on Wednesday 11th December. The symposium is organised as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded cross-disciplinary Doctoral Training Programme in Extinction Studies, and Dominic will share work from his current project on […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives an invited guest lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark, 25 November 2024
The title of Professor Bale’s lecture is ‘The Siege of Rhodes (1480) and late medieval news’. Link to further information: https://cas.au.dk/en/cvm/events/view/artikel/anthony-bale-the-siege-of-rhodes-1480-and-la-te-medieval-news Professor Bale will also be giving a student masterclass on medieval gender and a work-in-progress seminar on medieval witchcraft.
Continue ReadingProf. Hurley’s new book, ‘Angels and Monotheism’, will be published with CUP in Dec. and is available for pre-order now
While angels have played a decisive role in all the world’s major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically interpreted them as mere symbols and metaphors: they […]
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