2023 events
Join us to see a preview of three papers submitted for the next annual conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Sandrine Parageau and Kevin Killeen in conversation with Katie Murphy and Line Cottegnies, hosted by Namratha Rao.
Join us for the launch of City of Marvels, a new chapbook by J. R. Carpenter, published by Broken Sleep Books.
In this lecture, Dr William Rossiter will discuss his paper on Aretino, considering his diverse relationships with the courts, counsellors, and diplomats.
This talk reconsiders the state of contemporary fiction genres through the recent vogue for fungi as an imaginative resource for withstanding the twin crises of economics and ecology of the present moment.
Join poets Susie Campbell and Ruth Wiggins for an evening of readings and discussion about their recent poetry publications: The Sleeping Place (Susie Campbell, 2023) and The Lost Book of Barkynge (Ruth Wiggins, 2023).
In this lecture, Professor Jane Grogan will discuss what happened at the Siege of Smerwick.
The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The 2023 York Asia Research Network (YARN) Autumn Lecture, in association with the Modern School.
Modern School Research Seminar, in collaboration with YARN.
In this lecture, Dr Sara Miglietti will discuss their new paper, which considers self-translation in early modern Europe.
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Denise Wong from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell.
Black History Month Lecture with speakers Dr Keshia Abraham and Dr John Woolf.
All are welcome for this reading by poets Kit Fan and Tristram Fane Saunders.
As part of our Writers at York series, the Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to host a reading by the poets Kit Fan and Tristram Fane Saunders.
York CREMS (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
Join us for this two-day Exploratory Workshop. A collaboration between the Department of English and Related Literature Modern School, University of York UK and the Department of English Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
In this lecture, professor Claire Preston will discuss her paper on 'big science', from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Oppenheimer.
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Margarita Vaysman from New College, Oxford.
In this seminar, Dr Stephen Clucas will discuss the work of Renaissance polymath, John Dee.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL).
All staff and students are welcome to share their poetry, prose, song, and other work at this informal open mic.
In this talk, Dr Danielle Terrazas Williams will share their research into Challenging Evangelization.
Event details to be confirmed.
The third in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The third in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
Join writer Richard Smyth for a reading and discussion of his memoir, 'The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell'.
Join Preti Taneja - writer, educator, activist and Professor of Worid Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University - in conversation with Juliana Mensah, writer and University of York lecturer.
Join us for the Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex).
Award-winning Bristol-based poets Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans will read and talk about their work, chaired by expert in tidalectics Christ Astwood.
Samual Lasman (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Paul Wake from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Dr Sayan Chattopadhyay in conversation with Prof Claire Chambers about his book 'BeingEnglish: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation' (2022).
Professor Nicolette Zeeman (King's College, Cambridge)Annual Riddy Lecture
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Xine Yao (UCL).
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Kevin Quashie (Brown University).
Talk by Sayan Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by MonicaMastrantonio, visiting Professor at the University of York.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Nicholas Gaskill (Oxford).
Join Adam Farrer as he discusses his debut book, 'Cold Fish Soup' with Rebecca Bevington and Wiktoria Tunska of the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature.
The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The second in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
Professor Christine Chism (UCLA)
Reading by Sadia Abbas, professor of postcolonial studies at Rutgers University-Newark and director of the Center for European Studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Christine Okoth (King's College London).
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Miranda Anderson of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling.
This salon will feature readings of LGBTQ+ works and an informal discussion about how these ideas and identities manifest across history.
Further details about this event will be posted shortly. THIS EVENT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
What is love? Still unsure? Love your dog? Love your comrades? Love solitude? Queer joy? Winter blues? Please join us for a sad, glad, and in-between evening of ancient and modern textual explorations.
queer! hosts a drag night alongside Haus of Dench with a performance by Crudi Dench.
Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell (York). THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
This exhibition will explore sexuality in all its forms and the world beyond a gender binary.
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by David Wylot of the University of Leeds.
Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr David Hering (University of Liverpool).
A literary salon in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A REVISED DATE WILL BE POSTED IN DUE COURSE.