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  1. Late Heaney
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    Late Heaney

    Book Launch and Talk with Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia USA

    Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, all set in conversation with his work at...

  2. English ModCon Research Symposium

    English ModCon Research Symposium

    School of English

    Join us for an afternoon showcasing some of the School's dynamic work-in-progress in Modern and Contemporary literature. We'll be grappling with all...

  3. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA

    AI and Assessment Design

    AI and Assessment Design

  4. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow

    The elixir, the editor and the platonic lover: pathologising and calibrating asexuality in William Davenant's The Platonick Lovers

    What do early modern recipes for love and sex and modern editorial assumptions reveal about early modern asexualities and their pathologisations? In William...

  5. Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Plenary Speaker: Professor Eva von Contzen, University of Freiburg

    For updates and information on purchasing tickets please visit our website https://chosen-symposium-2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Fees

  6. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA

    'Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare'

    Scozzaro is a specialist in Renaissance literature and culture, with a focus on law and the history of sexuality. She has also published work on contemporary...

  7. In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: Documentary Screening and Q&A with Director Leslie Askew

    In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: Documentary Screening and Q&A with Director Leslie Askew

    'In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters' is a 35-minute short film that reveals the little-known love story of Phillis Wheatley---America's...

  8. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Tom Houlton, University of York

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Tom Houlton, University of York

    Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance

    Monuments and memorials mark where terror and counterterror did and do occur. They can also become agents of terror and counterterror themselves, drawn...

  9. English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Associate Professor Henghameh Saroukhani, Durham University

    English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Associate Professor Henghameh Saroukhani, Durham University

    Black British Writing and the Autotheoretical Impulse

    "Anyone who speaks about himself," Roland Barthes once argued, "gets lost." This talk examines the politics of writing, and losing, the...

  10. The George Jack Memorial Lecture: 'They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters

    The George Jack Memorial Lecture: 'They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters

    Dr Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University

    In commemoration of George Barr Jack (1946 to 1999). Celebrated as one of the greatest poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen is less recognised as an...