English at Bristol
@bristolunienglish.bsky.social
Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
Next Thursday 4 Dec, Professor Ad Putter will be delivering a free lunchtime lecture at the Central Library to accompany a new exhibition of Bristol’s medieval manuscripts! Book here bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252...
‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social
‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Next Thursday 4 Dec, Professor Ad Putter will be delivering a free lunchtime lecture at the Central Library to accompany a new exhibition of Bristol’s medieval manuscripts! Book here bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252...
‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social
‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social
Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social
Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm
Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.
Michael Kalisch on Andrew O’Hagan’s On Friendship - Book of the Day & lead review in the @newstatesman.bsky.social 📖 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Michael Kalisch on Andrew O’Hagan’s On Friendship - Book of the Day & lead review in the @newstatesman.bsky.social 📖 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
PhD student Sarah Scaife has recently published a new open-access 🔓 article in the Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Medicines of Uncertainty and Objects of Care: Creative Engagement with an Ancient ‘Folding Almanac”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PhD student Sarah Scaife has recently published a new open-access 🔓 article in the Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Medicines of Uncertainty and Objects of Care: Creative Engagement with an Ancient ‘Folding Almanac”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
September 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
… and landing ‘like the end of a rainbow’ on Sunday evening.
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
… and landing ‘like the end of a rainbow’ on Sunday evening.
Bristol Balloon Fiesta took over the skies this weekend! 📸 by Dr Ronald Musto, including of the balloons rising up early on Saturday morning…
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Bristol Balloon Fiesta took over the skies this weekend! 📸 by Dr Ronald Musto, including of the balloons rising up early on Saturday morning…
We are excited to be taking part in this year’s Being Human Festival, 6–15 November. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social is the UK’s national festival of the humanities, led by School of Advanced Study with AHRC and @britishacademy.bsky.social #BeingHuman2025. Find out more: beinghumanfestival.org
July 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We are excited to be taking part in this year’s Being Human Festival, 6–15 November. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social is the UK’s national festival of the humanities, led by School of Advanced Study with AHRC and @britishacademy.bsky.social #BeingHuman2025. Find out more: beinghumanfestival.org
Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...
June 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...
In a presentation entitled ‘Archives of Dreams; Desires, and Selfhood’, Oroosa communicated her research on Urdu women’s magazines, tracing the recurring themes in popular literature that reflect and shape the everyday lives and identities of North Indian Muslim women.
June 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
In a presentation entitled ‘Archives of Dreams; Desires, and Selfhood’, Oroosa communicated her research on Urdu women’s magazines, tracing the recurring themes in popular literature that reflect and shape the everyday lives and identities of North Indian Muslim women.
Oroosa Anwar, a PhD student from the Department of English, has taken first place in the University’s Three Minute Thesis competition! #universityofbristol #threeminutethesis #3MT
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
June 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Oroosa Anwar, a PhD student from the Department of English, has taken first place in the University’s Three Minute Thesis competition! #universityofbristol #threeminutethesis #3MT
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...
June 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...
24 hours later, ANOTHER new article by Alice Hill-Woods has been published, this time a very powerful set of reflections on her grandmother Barbara’s feminist memoir. Congratulations, Alice! 🔓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
24 hours later, ANOTHER new article by Alice Hill-Woods has been published, this time a very powerful set of reflections on her grandmother Barbara’s feminist memoir. Congratulations, Alice! 🔓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A new article by Bristol PhD student Alice Hill-Woods, who is supervised by Dr Maria Vaccarella (Bristol) and Dr Arthur Rose (Exeter)! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A new article by Bristol PhD student Alice Hill-Woods, who is supervised by Dr Maria Vaccarella (Bristol) and Dr Arthur Rose (Exeter)! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dr Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024) @hattiesoper.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Dr Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024) @hattiesoper.bsky.social
Dr Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature 1793-1845 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) @eeforbes.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Dr Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature 1793-1845 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) @eeforbes.bsky.social
Dr Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @mareganlefay.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Dr Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) @mareganlefay.bsky.social
No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! A message from Annie and Lucy to the whole third-year English (and joint-honours) cohort:
'Having finished our assessments, a few of us are organising a publication called Endnotes which would showcase work from this degree!'...
'Having finished our assessments, a few of us are organising a publication called Endnotes which would showcase work from this degree!'...
May 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! A message from Annie and Lucy to the whole third-year English (and joint-honours) cohort:
'Having finished our assessments, a few of us are organising a publication called Endnotes which would showcase work from this degree!'...
'Having finished our assessments, a few of us are organising a publication called Endnotes which would showcase work from this degree!'...
Find 'Of Light and Colours', a new poem by Dr William Wootten, in today's @thespectator1828.bsky.social. This poem is from Dr Wootten's forthcoming full collection Landline, to be published by Worple Press in the autumn. Have a read here 👉 www.spectator.co.uk/poem/of-ligh....
May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Find 'Of Light and Colours', a new poem by Dr William Wootten, in today's @thespectator1828.bsky.social. This poem is from Dr Wootten's forthcoming full collection Landline, to be published by Worple Press in the autumn. Have a read here 👉 www.spectator.co.uk/poem/of-ligh....
Today is the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway! Dr Elizabeth Gourd writes on the novel’s relevance to post-pandemic life in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-it-was...
May 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Today is the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway! Dr Elizabeth Gourd writes on the novel’s relevance to post-pandemic life in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-it-was...
First up, one of the biggest English-related media stories of the year: Professor Matthew Steggle has analysed a 17c letter fragment that sheds exciting new light on the relationship between William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway! @matthewsteggle.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
First up, one of the biggest English-related media stories of the year: Professor Matthew Steggle has analysed a 17c letter fragment that sheds exciting new light on the relationship between William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway! @matthewsteggle.bsky.social