We are delighted to announce the details of Jade Munslow Ong’s inaugural professorial lecture on Wednesday 12th March 2025, between 5.30pm-8pm in the Chapman Building at the University of Salford. Jade’s lecture, entitled ‘Literature Unbound: Decolonising Modernism In and Beyond the Classroom,’ moves from a nineteenth-century South African farmhouse to the twenty-first-century classroom via a […]
Join us on 5th February 2.30-4.30pm for the next English Research Seminar, presented by guest speaker Stephen O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin). The talk will be livestreamed in Lady Hale 100 and on Teams. Please contact Prof Scott Thurston (s.thurston@salford.ac.uk) for the link to join online. The Partition of Ireland and the Festival of Britain Between […]
Emma Barnes has announced that she is participating in a virtual book launch on 24th Jan 2pm-4pm for the Palgrave edited collection Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to Land. Emma has contributed in a chapter to the book entitled ‘Aloha ‘Āina: Island-Wahine Relationality in Hawaiian Mo‘olelo‘. To book your ticket for the event, please follow the link below. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-indigenous-storytelling-and-connections-to-the-land-tickets-1116714907349?aff=erellivmlt To […]
We are delighted to report that Qudsia Akhtar will be presenting an amazing line-up of poets Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Jamal Mehmood and Alycia Pirmohamed to read and discuss their poems, followed by a Q&A session at London’s Southbank Centre on Wednesday 15th January. The discussion focuses on the poetic concept of the […]
We are delighted to announce Lauren Pearl Holmes’ latest publication which has appeared as a post on the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) blog (reviewed by Dr Anne James of the University of Regina). The post is entitled ‘[T]o prevent [thei]r being guilty of like wickedness:” Proto-sentimentalism in Benjamin Wadsworth’s sermon on Judges 5, […]
“COVID-19 and the Slow Death of Interdisciplinarity in the Practice and Teaching of American Studies,” a roundtable panel formed of University of Salford postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes, University of Manchester postgraduate researcher Heena Hussain, and University of Salford undergraduate student and qualified primary and secondary school teacher Charlotte Stevenson, has been awarded £5,000 from […]
Lauren Pearl Holmes (University of Salford) and guest speaker Heena Hussain (University of Manchester) presented the seminar “American Studies: Then and Now” on Wednesday 04 December 2024. The seminar considered American Studies’ long understanding that histories and historiographies of American society and culture represent an attempt to impose an ordered narrative on its national origin […]
Caroline will be talking about Harpy at The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast on 28th November at 6:30pm For more details and to register please use the link here.
Scott Thurston and other members of the Arts for the Blues research team are presenting the project this week at the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO)’s annual meeting at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin 3-6 October. The theme of the gathering is Unveiling the Connections: Research in Psychodrama and Arts-based Approaches. The […]
Postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes will present a paper entitled “‘Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:’ Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge” at this year’s “Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes: New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript” conference, held 3-5th October at Harvard Divinity School and the […]