Monthly Archives: June 2015

The latest publication from Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein has just published a new, edited, volume, for which she has also written the introduction and first chapter, and which includes contributions from a wide range of colleagues from CIRCL (The Graduate Centre for International Research in … Continue reading

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Paddy Bullard looks forward to joining us

We are delighted to welcome to the department Paddy Bullard, who is one of several new colleagues joining us this Autumn. Paddy writes: Enlightenment-period literature and the history of the book are the two great enthusiasms of my professional life, … Continue reading

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For Simon

The current issue of English: The Journal of the English Association (Vol. 64 No. 245, Summer 2015) contains an obituary for Simon Dentith by Prof. Helen Wilcox, of the University of Bangor. It is followed by ‘Weather Events‘, a poem in … Continue reading

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On the rise…

We are delighted to announce that  English at Reading (English Literature, English Language, and Creative Writing) has moved from 27th to 13th in the Guardian League tables: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RTG3Jf6kretwMuFpgo6Nbaq0gM1rvuz0-NB_2Mc1Xq0/edit?pli=1#gid=137705090 The Institution as a whole has also risen, from 30th to 25th: … Continue reading

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