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Reynard wins second award
Poetry Education Group
Laurence Publicover on In Our Time
ALA Award and Memorial Lecture for Philip Smallwood
Reynard the Fox animation film wins an award
Reynard the Fox, a stop-motion puppet animation film, has won a major award.
Emma Parker wins the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize
Medieval Manuscripts at Bristol Central Library
Emma Parker wins BACLS Monograph Prize 2025
Jo Nadin nominated for Carnegie Medal
Dr Jo Nadin, Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, has been nominated for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing.
Building Grief Literacy and Community
Building Grief Literacy and Community with Dr Lesel Dawson, Associate Professor in Literature and Culture in the Department of English, and Professor Lucy Selman, Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care in the Bristol Medical School
Dr Noreen Masud awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
Dr Noreen Masud is among 30 recipients from across the UK who will each receive £100,000.
Making Connections at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference
The Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) Conference was held at the University of Bristol on 2-5 July, 2025. Dr Rachel Hare reports on the proceedings.
Dr Harriet Soper Wins University English Book Prize
Dr Harriet Soper has been awarded the 2024 University English Book Prize.
'Writing for Art' Students Go to Oxford
In February 2025, a group of English students went to Oxford as part of a field trip for the unit Writing for Art.
Prof Rowena Kennedy-Epstein awarded New York Public Library Fellowship
Professor Rowena Kennedy-Epstein has been announced as one of fifteen Fellows at The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Exit Pursued by Bear: English Students Reflect on The Tobacco Factory’s Production of The Winter’s Tale
English Students Reflect on The Tobacco Factory’s Production of The Winter’s Tale
'A pen shaped like a syringe': English students reflect on Bodies 2
English students reflect on the second 'Bodies' event.
Prof Rowena Kennedy-Epstein wins MLA Archival Prize
Professor Rowena Kennedy-Epstein has won the Modern Language Association Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship for her study on Muriel Rukeyser.
Dr Michael Malay wins the Wainwright Prize
Dr Michael Malay has won the prestigious Wainwright Prize for Top Nature Writing.
Dr Mary Bateman wins Arthurian Studies Prize
Dr Mary Bateman has won the 2024 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies.
Dr Michael Malay wins the Richard Jefferies Award for Best Nature Writing
Dr Michael Malay has won the Richard Jefferies Award the best nature writing issued in 2023.
Dr Noreen Masud Wins University English Book Prize
Dr Noreen Masud has won the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript.
Shakespeare's Sister Speaks
Dr Matthew Steggle discovers potential work by Joan Shakespeare Hart, sister of William Shakespeare.
Three Bristol colleagues shortlisted for University English Book Prize
Dr Noreen Masud, Dr Natalie Ferris, and Dr Doug Battersby have all been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript.
Abs Ashley selected for GW4 Crucible Leadership Programme
Dr Abs Ashley has been selected as a future interdisciplinary research leader in tackling health inequalities.
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein wins the MLA Matei Calinescu Prize
Dr Rowena Kennedy-Epstein has been awarded the Modern Language Association's Matei Calinescu Prize.
Noreen Masud wins MSA First Book Prize
Dr Noreen Masud has been awarded the Modern Studies Association's First Book Prize.
Zadie Smith In Conversation with Professor Madhu Krishnan
Zadie Smith spoke with Bristol's Professor Madhu Krishnan on the publication of her new novel, The Fraud.
Tarini Bhambukar Wins RSVP "Expanding The Field" Prize
English PhD student Tarini Bhamburkar has been awarded the 2023 "Expanding the Field Prize" from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Rachel Hare Wins 3 Minute Thesis Competition
English PhD student Rachel Hare has won Bristol's 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
Bristol Common Press campaigns to restore 200-year-old printing press
Bristol Common Press launches crowdfunding campaign to save the Albion, a 200-year-old printing press.
Michael Malay wins at the Bristol Teaching Awards
Dr Michael Malay, Lecturer in English Literature and Environmental Humanities, has won the Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award at the Bristol Teaching Awards.
Symposium celebrates the Furnivals
On Saturday 22 April, students, academics, writers, publishers, and artists came together for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to explore the lives and legacies of two of the South West's most important figures in the literary arts and arts education, Astrid Furnival (1940-) and John Furnival (1933-2020).
Bristol academics collaborate on Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
The research of three Bristol academics has been featured in a new Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro.
Ash Bond lands six-figure deal for book series
Creative Writing PhD student Ash Bond has signed a six-figure book deal with Piccadilly Press for her mythological series
English students present new play, 'Hamsters'
'Hamsters', a play written by Bristol English student Rosalie Roger-Lacan, will be produced and performed by the new Bristol-based theatre company Talkers & Doers next week.
A MAP OF BRISTOL IN 1480
Prof. Helen Fulton Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
Professor Helen Fulton to give O'Donnell lecture
Several posts now being advertised as part of the School of Humanities' Global and Local research theme
Several posts now being advertised as part of the School of Humanities' Global and Local research theme