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Alice Hall
Alice Hall named New Generation Thinker

Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013

English Department lecturer Alice Hall has been named as one of ten 2013 New Generation Thinkers by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC.

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Hugh Haughton and Alice Oswald at Senate House

Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013

Under the title 'Poetry and Rivers', the poet Alice Oswald along with Professor Hugh Haughton did a double-event at Senate House, University of London.

F R Leavis
F R Leavis Studentships for MA study

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

We are delighted to announce the creation of two new studentships for MA study commencing in 2013.

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Prison Fictions and Human Rights project wins Gold Award

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

Michelle Kelly, Claire Westall and a group of students from the Department of English and Related Literature have been given a Vice-Chancellor's Outstanding Achievement Award for their groundbreaking Prison Fictions and Human Rights project.

Forthcoming events

Tue
18
Jun

Putting England in its Place: Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages

An afternoon presentation of CMS (York) papers given at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University (9-10 March 2013)

Wed
19
Jun

The Fate of the Book

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Eric Rasmussen

Fri
21
Jun

Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800

This two-day international, interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars working on the role played by the senses in the experience and expression of religion and faith in the pre-modern world.

Mon
24
Jun

Anti-Happenings/Anti-Politics: Experimental Art in Late Socialist Central Europe

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar with speaker Dr Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Tue
25
Jun

Unnatural Stories, Plots, Progressions and Endings

A graduate workshop led by Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

 

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