Dr John Gilmore speaks about the light Francis Williams’s one surviving poem sheds on the lesser-known functions of Latin in the British colonies. He shares how Latin poetry became a conduit for arguments about the intellectual capacity of people of African descent and, by extension, about the illegitimacy of the slave trade.

Shahidha Bari is joined by Stephen Shapiro and guests to read volume 4 of Foucault's History of Sexuality, which has been translated into English for the first time.

Melvyn Bragg and guests, including our very own Prof Paulo de Medeiros, discuss the works and life of one of Portugal's greatest poets - Fernando Pessoa.

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We are delighted to announce that the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department, have again been placed in the top 20 English departments in the world by the QS World University Rankings by Subject.