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:
Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words (OUP, 2014)
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701088.do
The library have an ecopy of the book: http://idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198701088.001.0001
Matthew’s prize will be awarded to him formally on March 23rd, at the University’s annual Court.
Many congratulations, Matthew!