English & Comparative Literary Studies News

Congratulations to Sarah Moss, shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize, for her novel The Tidal Zone. The prize "celebrates exceptional works of fiction and non-fiction that engage with the topics of health and medicine and the many ways they touch our lives."

Sarah Moss is a professor, teaching on the Warwick Writing Programme.

Congratulations to Will Eaves on being shortlisted for this year's Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry, for his book The Inevitable Gift Shop (CB Editions). The book is described as, "An intriguing, complex and revealing mixture of prose and poetry, The Inevitable Gift Shop is a ‘memoir by other means’, lassoing consciousness, memory, desire, literature, illness, flora and fauna, and problems with tortoises and cable ties." The judges comment: “This accomplished collection is an original compilation of different kinds of writing and thinking. It is clever, witty and philosophical, a subtle long playing book which unfolds with every reading.”

The Inevitable Gift Shop was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Will Eaves is an Associate Professor, teaching on the Warwick Writing Programme.

The 2017 QS World University Rankings have been published, and our department has climbed to joint 16th in the world, and 5th in Europe. You can read the University's press release here.

A new prize has been established at Warwick to recognise writing by women in translation.

Rita Dashwood, a PhD student in the department working with Dr David Taylor and Dr Tina Lupton, has won this year's President's Prize for best postgraduate paper at the annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.