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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A photograph of Scott Thurston performing in Arts Council funded project Together Un/Tethered, linked to Arts for the Blues, has been published in The Lancet as part of a photo essay to raise awareness of creative approaches to health. The photo essay was launched at a special event held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York […]
PhD researcher Xsara Helmi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Research Doc Hub, LAURA), will have her poem To Be Unmade featured in Issue #9 of Indelible, the literary and arts journal from the London Arts-Based Research Centre. The issue, themed Awakening, launches on 11th October in print and digital formats. Helmi integrates poetic writing into her practice to navigate conscious […]
Lucy Hulton, current Creative Writing PhD student, and Widening Participation Fellow for the NWCDTP (2024-2025) has released a four-part podcast series themed around PhD applications. Lucy interviewed four current PhD students in the humanities from universities in the North West. So if you’re thinking about a PhD or are just curious, you can listen to […]
PhD candidate Lauren Pearl Holmes was delighted to present a paper at the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2025 Conference. The conference, held on 11 July 2025 at Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds, explored the theme of emotion in scholarship on women in the Americas. Lauren’s paper […]