Reviews and reports on events organised by the Department of English Studies.
Dante may have lived 700 years ago, but the epic poem he wrote, The Divine Comedy, lives on through later writers. Three speakers with expertise ranging from Romantic poetry to world literature […]
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Olive Schreiner. These five female authors defied social expectations and, according to Lyndall Gordon in her new book Outsiders, they “changed […]
Dante’s Divine Comedy tracks his journey from hell to heaven – but Dante has now arrived at a new destination in Durham, partly through a forthcoming exhibition at Palace Green Library, and […]
Defining the North is an always-provocative challenge, but poetry – with its attention to language and voice – provides a fine form through which to explore and celebrate the region’s […]
The comedian Robert Webb has received great acclaim for his book How Not to Be a Boy, which tackles important questions about gender and male identity in the twenty-first century. Martin […]
