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English Literature research, news and events from our world-class Department of English Studies @durham_uni.

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📢 Coming up: 20th MEMSA Conference 📢

There's still time to register for this year's Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) at Durham University.

Register below by 20th June:
👉https://t.co/OLFoHKK32n

📅13-14th July
📍St. John's College, Durham

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Conversations with Northern Writers from the Royal Literary Fund
📅19 and 25/6/2026
📍Poetry Pharmacy, York and Ormesby Library, Middlesborough

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📚 North East Book Events: June Highlights 📚

See our newsletter for the full event details:
👉 https://t.co/t9kuLc0kQv

Various Author Talks
📍The bound, FORUM Books, Waterstones, and Collected Books

Crossing the Tees Book Festival
📅 11th-29th June
📍Stockton-on-Tees

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Various events at The Lit & Phil, including 'Phantoms at the Phil'
📍The Lit and Phil, Newcastle

A Measure of Success: Durham Almunus Miles Hudson
📅8/6/2026
📍Hild Bede College, Durham University

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Dr Maryam Mirza's new paper ‘"What’s Gone is Gone”: Partition, Ownership, and Loss in Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand’ is now published by Taylor & Francis Group. Read for free:
👉 https://t.co/bDXpB0LySB

Find out more about Maryam’s research at:
👉https://t.co/kAEfs168Cs

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Professor Alastair Renfrew's new paper ‘Lenin as an Object of Formalist Discourse’ is now published by Wiley at:
👉 https://t.co/DO7HHTs5Sw

Find out more about Alastair’s research at:
👉 https://t.co/ma2N3W9nuy

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📅13-14th July
📍St. John's College, Durham

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📢 MEMSA Conference 2026 📢

Register by 20th June for the 20th Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) Conference at @durham_uni. The theme of this year's conference is 'Connection, Conversation, and Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World'.

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Our colleague Dr Natalie Goodison, Dr Lisa Kattenberg, and Professor Stuart Carroll will lead the conference which will also include a special collections library tour and tour of Durham city.

Register by 20th June:
👉https://t.co/OLFoHKK32n

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More info here:
👉 https://t.co/1p79iL3mPk

📅Friday 8th May
📍Lower Mountjoy, Durham & Online

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📢 'The Relationship is the Therapy': A Collaborative Symposium 📢

This Friday, our colleague Dr Josh Pugh, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, is hosting a symposium on therapy research and practice.

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The hybrid symposium explores the therapeutic relationship from cross-sectoral perspective, inviting scholars from the humanities and social sciences and experts in therapy research and policy, as well as clinicians spanning the spectrum of contemporary therapies.

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Dr Samuel Thomas’ new paper 'Lines of Flight, Lines of Force: Thomas Pynchon & Star Wars' is now published by @JHUPress. Read for free via Durham Research Online:
👉 https://t.co/16LdwE3lR5

Find out more about Sam’s research at:
👉 https://t.co/o4Xl2shRHh

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This is indicates how exciting undergraduate dissertations can be in laying the foundations for postgraduate degrees and in literary studies and beyond. Congratulations Jake!
Read his article: 👉https://t.co/qipmahsWZg

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Recent Undergraduate Dissertation Success 🎉

As our finalists have recently submitted their dissertations, we have the pleasure to highlight former student Jake Henson, who recently had an article published in Spenser Studies that was based on his undergraduate dissertation.

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Congratulations to the new Dr Ellen Charlesworth who has now completed her viva and submitted her final thesis. 🎉

Read more about Dr Charlesworth’s work at:
👉 https://t.co/koLNmWQnMU

Ellen’s PhD was supervised by Professor Claire Warwick and Dr Leonardo Impett.

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@PennPress have also published Marco's paper on 'AI as Character', which can be read for free here for 90 days:
👉https://t.co/jUbITgX4kV

Find out more about Marco’s research at:
👉 https://t.co/DsxxoyuEy6

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Dr Marco Bernini's new paper ‘Phantasmal Intersubjectivity: Co-Presence and the Emersivity of Literary Characters’ is now published by @DukePress at:
👉 https://t.co/IP1voOV8J3

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📢 TODAY: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question Symposium 📢
Today, Durham's Centre for Culture and Ecology and our colleague Dr Dan Hartley have co-organised a symposium to explore the current agrarian question.
📅 TODAY, 10:30am-6:00pm
📍Business School, Durham Uni

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Dr @barbara_franchi new chapter ‘Writing and Weaving the Neo-Victorian Decadence: A. S. Byatt's Golden Exphrasis’ is now published by @degruyter_brill:
👉 https://t.co/dA84r14QaC

It is part of a collection co-edited by our colleague, Dr Kostas Boyiopoulos, and Dr Joseph Thorne.