English Literature research, news and events from our world-class Department of English Studies @durham_uni.
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Congratulations to the new Dr Wanjie Feng who has now completed her viva and submitted her final thesis. 🎉
Read more about Dr Feng’s work at: 👉 etheses.durham.ac.uk/id/epri…
Wanjie’s PhD was supervised by Dr Elizabeth Swann and Professor Mandy Green.
Dr @alibrown18 and Tom Marshall's new paper 'The English Literature Essay Question in the Age of AI: Unlocking the Black Box of AI Responses' is now published by @OxUniPress at:
👉 academic.oup.com/english/adv…
Find out more about Alistair’s research at:
durham.ac.uk/staff/alistair-…
Dr Guy Woodward's new book ‘Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing’ is now published by Oxford University Press at:
👉 academic.oup.com/book/61749
Find out more about Guy’s research at:
👉durham.ac.uk/staff/guy-t-woo…
Dr Katharina Herold-Zanker's new book 'Transforming Orality: Articulating Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Britain' is now published by Liverpool University Press.
👉liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
This publication is paywalled and only available to subscribers, but you can also explore Durham Research Online, which includes a range of open access articles, chapters, and books from our colleagues across our Department. 📚
👉 durham-repository.worktribe.…
📢 Coming up: 20th MEMSA Conference 📢
There's still time to register for this year's Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) at Durham University.
Register below by 20th June:
👉forms.office.com/pages/respo…
📅13-14th July
📍St. John's College, Durham
📚 North East Book Events: June Highlights 📚
See our newsletter for the full event details:
👉 readdurhamenglish.wordpress.…
Various Author Talks
📍The bound, FORUM Books, Waterstones, and Collected Books
Crossing the Tees Book Festival
📅 11th-29th June
📍Stockton-on-Tees
Various events at The Lit & Phil, including 'Phantoms at the Phil'
📍The Lit and Phil, Newcastle
A Measure of Success: Durham Almunus Miles Hudson
📅8/6/2026
📍Hild Bede College, Durham University
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.…
Find out more about Maryam’s research at:
👉durham.ac.uk/staff/maryam-mi…
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-…
📢 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'.
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/respo…
📢 '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.
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.
More info here:
👉 durham.ac.uk/research/instit…
📅Friday 8th May
📍Lower Mountjoy, Durham & Online
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.…
Find out more about Sam’s research at:
👉 durham.ac.uk/staff/samuel-th…
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.
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…
