Prof Ursula Hurley will give a public talk at the Working Class Movement Library (WCML) on Wednesday 24 April at 3pm entitled “The Everyday Marvellous: Surrealist Writing Practices and Salford’s Dream Other” In a project exploring creative writing and wellbeing, the University of Salford partnered with local charity Salford Loaves and Fishes to create a […]
Arts for the Blues is involved in a new mental health project for children and young people which has won £2.5million from UKRI. The Arts4Us project will bring together the best practice in arts and arts therapies in one digital platform, making it easier for young people and their families to find crucial help. It […]
We are excited to announce the publication date for Jade Munslow Ong’s co-authored book with Matthew Whittle, Global Literature and the Environment (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2024) as 8th August 2024. Here is an extract from the description of the book on the publisher’s website: Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect […]
‘”Make them roll in their graves”: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level’ has just been published in English in Education journal. It was co-written by four colleagues within the School: Dr Hannah Helm (Impact and Engagement Fellow), Dr Emma Barnes (Knowledge Exchange Fellow), Katie Barnes (PhD student) and Prof Jade Munslow Ong. You can […]
Our guest speaker Dr Chris Vardy (University of Manchester) presents: ‘Contemporary Prehistories’ Wednesday 26 April 2-4pm at the University of Salford Irwell Valley campus Please write to S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you would like to join us! Abstract This paper analyses the representation of human ‘prehistory’ in contemporary writing. Politicised and racialised fantasies about the ‘prehistoric’ human […]
Scott Thurston will be delivering his inaugural professorial lecture entitled ‘Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through dance, poetry and therapy’ on Tuesday 19 March at 5:30pm at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus in the Digital Performance Lab. The lecture is described as follows: With the worldwide challenge of mental health at an all-time high, we […]
We are delighted to announce further details of this book launch taking place this week. UK Book Launch: Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der Vlies, eds., Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024) 7:00pm-9:00pm Friday 15th March 2024 Event Space, Home MCR All are warmly welcome to attend the UK launch of the co-edited […]
Hazel Price’s recent research in collaboration with the UK House of Lords is now available. The chapter ‘Respeaking as a Form of Intralingual Translation: Intersections between linguistics and respeaking in the live subtitling of parliamentary debates‘ was published last month with Routledge. The chapter reports on a collaborative project between linguists, a subtitler and the Editor […]
Professor Jade Munslow Ong will host this year’s prestigious Percival Lecture on the South Africa’s relationship with modernism and its modernist writers. The lecture, entitled ‘South Africa’s Modernism, Modernism’s South Africa’ will take place at The Old Fire Station, University of Salford, on 18 April at 6pm, and is organised by Manchester Lit & Phil, […]
Caroline Magennis will be launching her latest book Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women (Icon Books, 2023) at the International Anthony Burgess Centre in Manchester on Thursday 9th May at 6pm. Caroline will be in conversation with author and academic Prof Claire Lynch to discuss how the book attempts to look beyond the often-divisive conversation […]