News and Events

New publication from Caroline Magennis

We are delighted to hear that Caroline’s new book is to appear in Spring 2024. The publisher’s press release follows: Icon is to publish Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women a meditation on the choice of not having children, and critique of the structures that condemn women who make an active choice not to be […]

6th Annual Performance and English Research Day

We’re delighted to be running this event today: see programme below. If you want to join online, please contact Scott Thurston on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk 6th ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND ENGLISH RESEARCH DAY 2023 7th June 9:45 Arrival and refreshments 10-11 Session 1: Abby Bentham & Hazel Price followed by Intro to Comedy Sidebar 11-11:15 Refreshments and Comedy […]

Southern Voices: 28th June

Dr Emma Barnes is organising an event with the Manchester community group Southern Voices entitled ‘Exploring Legacies of Empire: Perspectives from the Global South‘ on 28th June at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The event is directed at 16-24 year olds and a packed programme will feature our new Professor Jackie Kay as a […]

Irish Studies at Salford

Salford will be well represented at the 21st conference of the Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) at the University of Valencia. Three papers have been accepted –  from Reader in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature Dr Caroline Magennis and two PhD students, Elsie Unsworth and Katie Barnes. Caroline will present from her work on […]

Visit the South African Modernism blog!

The SA Modernism team has been busy as usual, catch up with all the latest news at their blog here. There, amongst many other delights, you can find out about Jade Munslow Ong’s recent appearance on BBC Radio 3 presenting ‘The South African Bloomsberries’ for The Essay, and read the full script of the programme.

English Research Seminar: Alicia Rouverol and Sanja Nivesjö

We are delighted to announce the latest English Research Seminar, taking place in person on Wednesday 26 February between 2:30 and 4:30 on the University of Salford campus. If you wish to attend as a member of the public, please contact Scott Thurston on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk. The seminar is also available to online participants. Abstracts and […]

New publication from Hannah Helm

We are delighted to report more publishing success from Hannah Helm, who has recently placed her article “My Dear Mute Foundling with Those Telling Eyes of Yours”: Female Agency, Visual Forms, and the Disabled Gaze in “The Little Mermaid” in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Congratulations Hannah! You can view the abstract […]

English Research Seminar: Joseph Darlington

We are delighted to announce the latest English Research Seminar, taking place in person on Wednesday 8 February between 2:30 and 4:30 on the University of Salford campus. If you wish to attend as a member of the public, please contact Scott Thurston on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk. The seminar is also available to online participants. Abstract and […]

English Research Seminar: Emma Barnes

We are delighted to announce the latest English Research Seminar, taking place in person on Wednesday 7 December between 2:30 and 4:30 on the University of Salford campus. Unfortunately Caroline Magennis will now not appear due to illness. If you wish to attend as a member of the public, please contact Scott Thurston on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk. […]