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One Day We Will Dance With You: film and discussion evening with Kate Adams

Dr Kate Adams will be screening her co-directed film One Day We Will Dance With You at the Gledhill Arts Library in Jedburgh on Friday 27th February 2026 – 6:30pm until 8pm. The press release for the event is as follows. Facing and building change together: arts and science Join us for a talk and […]

Terry Eagleton’s personal archive arrives at the University of Salford

The English Research Centre is proud to announce the University’s acquisition of the personal archives of prominent literary scholar, Terry Eagleton. Professor Eagleton, who was born in Salford, has bequeathed an extensive collection of his writings and other material relating to his academic life from the early 1960s all the way to 2021. Eagleton, who […]

The Writers’ Cafe exhibition in Chorlton

Doctoral researcher Lucy Power reports on the opening of an unusual exhibition devoted to a writer’s group in Chorlton, South Manchester… Shhh! The Chorlton Writers’ Cafe Library Exhibition There was a joyful atmosphere last Thursday evening at Chorlton Library, when members of the Chorlton Writers’ Cafe gathered to celebrate the launch of our first exhibition […]

Jackie Kay at the National Year of Reading launch in Scotland

We are thrilled to report that Prof Jackie Kay appeared alongside Her Majesty The Queen at the launch of the National Year of Reading in Scotland on Monday 19 January. The event featured other Scottish authors, local primary school children and Dennis the Menace (!), and took place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. The scheme […]

New article from Elsie Unsworth on Irish Literature

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Elsie Unsworth on the publication of their article in the Irish Studies Review – ‘Community, nationalism and folklore collection: a comparison of W.B. Yeats’s The Celtic Twilight and Oein DeBhairduin’s Why the moon travels’. The article can be read here. Congratulations, Elsie! This examination of W.B. Yeats’s The Celtic Twilight and Oein DeBhairduin’s Why the moon travels explores […]

English Research Seminar – 4th February 2026

Please join us at 2.30pm on Wednesday 4th February both in-person and online for our final English Research Seminar of Trimester 2. Please contact Prof. Scott Thurston for more details. Reflections from a Monograph in Progress: Reimagining Madness, Motherhood, and Disability: From Fairy Tales to Disney and Beyond Dr Hannah Helm (Salford) In this exploratory presentation, […]

Lucy Hulton and Szilvi Naray at international conference: Interweaving Languages

Third year Creative Writing PhD student Lucy Hulton presented at the interdisciplinary and multilingual conference Interweaving Languages that took place from the 7 to 13 October. The main conference (9 to 11 October) took place in Budapest, Hungary, with other sessions being offered online.  The conference was organised by LangueFlow, an international research team exploring how multilingualism […]

English Research Seminar: 2nd December (Lauren Holmes and Alicia Rouverol)

Please join us at 2.30pm on Wednesday 3rd December both in-person and online for our final English Research Seminar of Trimester 1. Please contact Prof. Caroline Magennis for more details. Seventeenth Century Sermon Studies, but Make It Transatlantic (Lauren Holmes) The field of sermon studies is an interdisciplinary one. It examines the structure, content, delivery, and […]

English Research Seminar on 5th November 2025 – The Unfinished Business of Astley Castle

Please join us for our English Research Seminar at 2.30pm on 5th November on a project featuring Jade Munslow Ong, Simon Stanton-Sharma, Maire Tracey, Vashti Gbolagun Suwa, Liza Ryan-Carter. Please contact Prof. Caroline Magennis on c.magennis@salford.ac.uk for the venue and any further details. The Unfinished Business of Astley Castle: Interdisciplinarity, Palimpsest and Contemporaneities In 2024 […]