Research in English At Durham

Dr Maryam Mirza's new paper ‘"What’s Gone is Gone”: Partition, Ownership, and Loss in Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand’ is now published by Taylor & Francis Group. Read for free: 👉 durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5073892… Find out more about Maryam’s research at: 👉durham.ac.uk/staff/maryam-m…

Professor Alastair Renfrew's new paper ‘Lenin as an Object of Formalist Discourse’ is now published by Wiley at: 👉 tinyurl.com/467vpmsm Find out more about Alastair’s research at: 👉 durham.ac.uk/staff/alastair…

📅13-14th July 📍St. John's College, Durham

Our colleague Dr Natalie Goodison, Dr Lisa Kattenberg, and Professor Stuart Carroll will lead the conference which will also include a special collections library tour and tour of Durham city. Register by 20th June: 👉forms.office.com/pages/response…

📢 MEMSA Conference 2026 📢 Register by 20th June for the 20th Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) Conference at @durham_uni. The theme of this year's conference is 'Connection, Conversation, and Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World'.

More info here: 👉 durham.ac.uk/research/insti… 📅Friday 8th May 📍Lower Mountjoy, Durham & Online

The hybrid symposium explores the therapeutic relationship from cross-sectoral perspective, inviting scholars from the humanities and social sciences and experts in therapy research and policy, as well as clinicians spanning the spectrum of contemporary therapies.

📢 'The Relationship is the Therapy': A Collaborative Symposium 📢 This Friday, our colleague Dr Josh Pugh, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, is hosting a symposium on therapy research and practice.

Dr Samuel Thomas’ new paper 'Lines of Flight, Lines of Force: Thomas Pynchon & Star Wars' is now published by @JHUPress. Read for free via Durham Research Online: 👉 durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5156659… Find out more about Sam’s research at: 👉 durham.ac.uk/staff/samuel-t…

This is indicates how exciting undergraduate dissertations can be in laying the foundations for postgraduate degrees and in literary studies and beyond. Congratulations Jake! Read his article: 👉journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Recent Undergraduate Dissertation Success 🎉 As our finalists have recently submitted their dissertations, we have the pleasure to highlight former student Jake Henson, who recently had an article published in Spenser Studies that was based on his undergraduate dissertation.

Congratulations to the new Dr Ellen Charlesworth who has now completed her viva and submitted her final thesis. 🎉 Read more about Dr Charlesworth’s work at: 👉 etheses.durham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1648… Ellen’s PhD was supervised by Professor Claire Warwick and Dr Leonardo Impett.

@PennPress have also published Marco's paper on 'AI as Character', which can be read for free here for 90 days: 👉scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/style/art… Find out more about Marco’s research at: 👉 durham.ac.uk/staff/marco-be…

Dr Marco Bernini's new paper ‘Phantasmal Intersubjectivity: Co-Presence and the Emersivity of Literary Characters’ is now published by @DukePress at: 👉 read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/…

📢 TODAY: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question Symposium 📢 Today, Durham's Centre for Culture and Ecology and our colleague Dr Dan Hartley have co-organised a symposium to explore the current agrarian question. 📅 TODAY, 10:30am-6:00pm 📍Business School, Durham Uni

Dr @barbara_franchi new chapter ‘Writing and Weaving the Neo-Victorian Decadence: A. S. Byatt's Golden Exphrasis’ is now published by @degruyter_brill: 👉 brill.com/display/title/… It is part of a collection co-edited by our colleague, Dr Kostas Boyiopoulos, and Dr Joseph Thorne.

📅 21st April, 10:30am-6:00pm 📍Business School, Durham University Reserve your free space here: 👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-and-…

In response to the 21st-century rebirth of the agrarian question under the sustained capitalist crisis and climate catastrophe, this symposium intends to study the cultural logic and implications of the contemporary agrarian question.🌱

📖 Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question: A Symposium 📖 Dr Daniel Hartley has co-organised a one-day symposium exploring the intersection of culture and the 21st-century agrarian question, featuring lectures delivered by academics from across the UK and US.

Emeritus Professor David Fuller's new book 'Shakespeare and Ballet' is now published by @BloomsburyBooks at: 👉bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespeare… Read a Q&A with David Fuller about how Shakespeare's thought can be explored through dance: 👉durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…