The London Rare Books School (LRBS) at the Institute of English Studies, University of London runs a series of intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects

Focus: Theme: 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space' Description: The ISLE Summer School 2026 will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from 7th to 13th June 2026. The Summer School theme is 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'. The academic programme includes courses, plenaries, roundtable disucssions, poster sessions, expert consultancy, and a day trip to see selected runic inscriptions in the area. Our six co

The present article advances an ecocritical and ecofeminist reading of masculinity in Beowulf. It argues that the representation of masculine embodiment and subjectivity is intricately entangled wi...

This paper examines the reception of the classical myth of Persephone in Louise Glück’s 2006 poetry collection Averno. It argues that Glück reimagines Persephone’s descent into the Underworld as a ...

Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

This essay focuses on balance, a central motif in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, seeking to illustrate how Austen endorses the value of balance and how it is negotiated through three salient ...

David Szalay is a Hungarian-British author. His first novel, London and the South East (2008), won the Betty Trask Award, while in 2016 All That Man Is was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Sza...

The multitude depicted in David Mitchell’s networked fiction is frequently interpreted as a stark articulation of the potential for political emancipation of the oppressed under global capitalism. ...

African American poet Russell Atkins (1926–2024) is an esteemed figure among readers and critics of experimental English poetry. His honours and awards include an Honorary PhD from Cleveland State ...

18th European Society for the Study of English Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela Seminar #7: The English Verb: Driving Syntax, Shaping Meaning and Framing Thought Verbs are traditionally seen as the backbone of sentence structure, with their semantic requirements establishing syntactic relations between arguments. However, this fundamental role extends beyond clause-level relations, reaching into discourse, giving rise to various implicatures and shaping idiomatic use. The