We are very happy to share that Dr Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College) will be joining us for one of the MA sessions of Modern War Poetry and Theatre. In this lecture, Tanoukhi will talk about her forthcoming book, What It Takes to Want to Turn to Others, which examines the crisis of public discourse in […]
Last Friday, 13 February, the annual Winter Workshop was held in the Sala d’Actes of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Coordinated by Dr Carme Font, the seminar offered doctoral students the opportunity to share their research with fellow PhD candidates and the teaching body of the English Department. This year, the format shifted from […]
We are happy to share that Dr Nicholas Spengler participated in the MLA 2026 Convention. At the invitation of the Melville Society, Dr Spengler organised the panel “Melville and the Geopolitics of Reading,” focusing on Melville’s literary reception in the Global South during the Cold War. Against the nationalist readings of Melville that predominated in […]
Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture We are happy to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming collected volume “Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture.” In the same spirit as our homonymous October seminar, which showcased a variety of literary […]
On 28 January 2026, the 12th edition of the Teaching English Language and Culture (TELLC) Workshop will be held at the Sala d’Actes (Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres) from 9:00 – 14:00. Organized and coordinated by Dr Sara Martín, the event brings together the teaching staff of the Department of English and German Studies to […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Christina Howes has recently published an article titled “From war memory to planetary consciousness: ecological postmemory and reconstructive metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7.” In her contribution to the journal The Grove, Howes examines Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (2023) as a transformative work of postmemorial literature that fuses […]
We are happy to announce that Dr Sara Martín has contributed with the chapter “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte’s Wars in The Expanse Novel Series” to Wars We Never Fought — a collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in […]
We are happy to announce the successful defence of Enas Talib Farid Hamidi’s doctoral thesis, “Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Cultural Factors in Language Learning for Syrian Women Refugees in the UK,” presented in the Doctoral Programme in Humanistic Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Although Enas’s project does not sit strictly within literary […]
SAVE THE DATE ⚖️Jornada Cooperació per la Justícia Gobal, Fundació Autònoma Solidària 🗓️24 November 2025, 9-14h 📍Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres Dr Cristina Pividori will contribute to the Jornada de Cooperació per la Justícia Global by presenting Words Beyond War, a FAS-funded initiative designed tobond higher education with lived experience by cultivating […]
We are pleased to share that Dr Cristina Pividori has contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue Giorni di Guerra – Days of War, produced for the project Days of War – The Photographer’s Shadow, which marks the 110th anniversary of Italy’s entry into the First World War. The event brings together historical and contemporary visual work […]