English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Congratulations to WATE Winners and all nominees
Many congratulations to all who have been recognised for their teaching via the recent WATE Awards.
Nancy Haijing Jiang and Michael Meeuwis were both short-listed and in the postgraduate group, Owain Burrell and Andy Irwin received a Commendation, and Elizabeth Sharrock was declared a winner.
Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023)
We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn that Peter Mack died as the result of a car accident on Thursday 5th October.
Peter Mack was a rigorous scholar and an excellent administrator. He directed the Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2014 and was both Head of the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies and Chair of the Faculty of Arts, besides being actively involved in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. A Fellow of the British Academy and a leading authority on the English and European Renaissance, combining Shakespeare and Montaigne, his work and kindness touched everyone who met him, from students to colleagues, across various disciplines. His many books included Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (2002); Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010); A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (2011); and Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation (2017)
Further details about the funeral and memorial event will be announced as soon as we have them. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.