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.

In the five-book shortlist for University English's Outstanding First Manuscript Prize, no fewer than three members of the Bristol English Department have been selected for their publications in 2022: Dr Natalie Ferris's Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1845-1980, Dr Noreen Masud's Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language, and Dr Doug Battersby (previously Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Global Fellow at Bristol)'s Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form

You can read the judges' comments at the University English website, where Dr Ferris's work is praised for its 'brilliant analysis [...] fine-grained research', Dr Masud's work as 'highly original [...] excellent rigour', and Dr Battersby for his 'Impressively clear-sighted and precise [...] method'.