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 […]
You are invited to join us for our English Research Seminar on 1st October 2025 from 1.15-3pm. Please contact Prof. Caroline Magennis on c.magennis@salford.ac.uk for the venue and any further details. Our speakers will be Aisling Logan (PhD Candidate) and Dr Jack Wilson (Lecturer in English Language). Both abstracts are below – Aisling’s paper is […]
What does it mean to feel Irish in 2025? Salford’s own Professor Caroline Magennis will seek to answer this question in her inaugural lecture this October.Caroline, Professor of Contemporary Irish Literature, will deliver a wide-ranging lecture on Thursday 9 October in the iconic Peel Building on our Peel Park campus that will explore how Irish […]
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 […]
English colleagues were recognised at the University’s recent Research and Innovation Awards, a ceremony for which was held on 3 July. The categories in which our researchers were awarded are as follows: Best Cultural Sector Collaboration Best Community or Public Engagement Initiative Congratulations to colleagues!
We are delighted that Salford English is hosting the 2023 Babel Lecture on Friday 9th June at 5:30-7pm at the Digital Media Performance Lab at the University of Salford’s Media City UK campus. The lecture will be delivered by Robin Ince, the comedian, writer and broadcaster. Admission is free of charge. Please book your tickets […]
Please join us on 8th December at 3pm on Teams for a panel discussion on Open Access publishing after REF2021. This is a must for anyone contemplating their first steps into academic writing or who wants to make an informed decision about where to place their scholarship. There will be opportunities for discussion and questions […]
Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts Please join us for the English research seminar, 3pm-5pm on 10th November 2021. The seminars will be held on Teams this semester. If you are a Salford postgraduate student or graduate who would like to attend this event, please contact Caroline Magennis on c.magennis@salford.ac.uk Emma Barnes, Sanja Nivesjö and Jade […]
We are delighted to report that our PhD student Qudsia Akhtar won first prize in the New World Oral Presentation category at the 13th annual Manchester Metropolitan Postgraduate Conference on 17 March. Congratulations! Qudsia’s paper was entitled ‘Exploring the Fourth Space: Writing the ‘I’ of the British-Pakistani Experience’. The organisers said: ‘Our committee, delegates and […]