Departmental news
Highly Commended Award for former BA Student
In a remarkable achievement, Emily Swallow has been honored with a 'Highly Commended' recognition in the Literature category at the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards 2023. Emily's outstanding essay, titled “Holy Capitalism Batman! Exploring the Relationship Between Urban Capitalism and the Hard-Boiled Genre,” garnered well-deserved acclaim. The essay was originally crafted for the module 'Twentieth-Century American Literature'
The BACLS Edited Collection Prize
We are delighted to share the news that "World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent has been awarded the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies 2019 Edited Collection Prize. Panellists thought that this hugely impressive collection makes a tremendous contribution to the kind of research that BACLS promotes.”
This is an essay collection that Stephen Shapiro and Sharae Deckard carried out for Prof Neil Lazarus' and Prof Pablo Mukherjee’s Palgrave series.
This is a culmination of work carried out by Mike Niblett, Claire Westall, Kerstin Oloff, and Richard Godden, who all have essays in it, so it speaks to the research culture of the department.
Congratulations to Marta Meazza, winner of the Literature category at the 2019 Global Undergraduate Awards
We are proud to announce that Marta Meazza (BA English Literature with Intercalated Year) is the winner of the Literature category at this year's Global Undergraduate Awards for her essay "Toxic Waste, Toxic Masculinity: Femicide, Ecocide and the Slow Violence of Globalization in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666". Marta's work was selected out of an international field of student research for this prestigious recognition, and is now invited to collect her prize at the UA Global Summit in Dublin in November.
Anthropo-Scenes: A Climate Fiction Competition
Announcing a new fiction writing competition run by the Climaginaries Research Group in cooperation with the Narrating Climate Futures initiative. Submission deadline 15th August 2019 -- full details can be found here.
2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist announced
The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership. More information about this year's shortlist can be found here.
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist announced
The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership.
The shortlist is due to be announced in early November 2018.
Graeme Macdonald's Petrocultures conference a success
Graeme Macdonald's Petrocultures event at Glasgow University this month was a huge success, reported on in the media, and with a sell-out Town Hall event. Congratulations to Graeme on a fantastic conference.
Laura Shanahan is prose runner-up for the World Literature Today Translation Prize
Many congratulations to Laura Shanahan, postgraduate student on the MA in Literary Translation Studies (who had been have been shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition), has been chosen as the prose runner-up for the World Literature Today Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of an excerpt from Anna Maria Ortese's short story 'The Silence of Reason'. Cick here for more information.
Laura Shanahan shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition
Many congratulations to Laura Shanahan, postgraduate student on the MA in Literary Translation Studies, who is one of eight people to have been shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition with her translation from the Italian of Viola di Grado’s La fine delle frasi fatte [The End of the Set Phrases]. The competition received around 100 entries in total. Click here to read more about this achievement.