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News

Recent PhD student's debut novel acquired by Atheneum Publishers

Monday 20 October 2025

Warm congratulations to recent English / CECS PhD, Sharon Choe, on the acquisition of her first novel!


MA student Elizabeth Riddick wins first prize in the JASNA essay contest

Monday 20 October 2025

Congratulations Elizabeth!


CECS director's book a finalist for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Congratulations to CECS director, Professor Chloe Wigston Smith!


News Archive

Events

Sat
8
Nov

Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on

York Georgian Society Lecture with Mary Fairclough

Tue
11
Nov

Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.

Tue
25
Nov

James Tassie: A Maker of the Scottish Enlightenment

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth discusses the modeller, collector, inventor and businessman James Tassie.

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