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Congratulations to Matthew Sperling!

Dr Matthew Sperling, of our department, has been awarded this year’s Faculty RETF Prize for the best output by an Early Career Researcher. This is for his monograph, based on his recent PhD thesis, on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill: … Continue reading

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Matthew Sperling: a publication and review update

Matthew writes:   I’ve had a couple of pieces published online in recent days: my review of new poetry books by Paul Batchelor, Oli Hazzard and Toby Martinez de las Rivas, which was published in last week’s New Statesman, has now gone … Continue reading

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Matthew Sperling’s recent work includes…

Matthew Sperling writes: 1)      My first scholarly monograph, Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words, was published by Oxford University Press at the end of March. 2)     In the April issue of Apollo: The International Art Magazine you … Continue reading

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Welcome back to the Modern Studies seminar

Do come along to the first Modern Studies Seminar of the Spring this Tuesday 4th Feb at 5pm in Humss 125, Whiteknights Campus.   .  

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Matthew Sperling and the Open Book

Mathew Sperling recently posted to the Apollo blog here — http://www.apollo-magazine.com/books/ — about a recent symposium he attended entitled ‘Art, Poetry and the Making of the Book’.

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Going Viral, Part Two

Matthew Sperling writes: 5 October 2013 Around midnight one day at the start of September, I got an email from an Evening Standard journalist who had found me through twitter. He was seeking comment for the next day’s paper for … Continue reading

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Going Viral, Part One

Matthew Sperling writes: 5 October 2013 I’ve had a twitter account for about a year now. In twitter terms, my follower count is woefully small – it’s roughly a fifth of the number that my colleague Grace Ioppolo has, for … Continue reading

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An art critic amongst us…

 Matthew Sperling on art: 5 October 2013 I’ve become an art critic this summer. The cover story of the October issue of Apollo, the international art magazine founded in 1925, is a piece I wrote on the relation between art … Continue reading

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