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Posted by on 2023-04-13
Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith SymposiumRegistration is now open for the Ali Smith symposium, taking place on Wednesday 26th April 2023, 9.30am-5.30pm at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. To see the programme and register click here.
Posted by on 2022-11-05
One day symposium at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge on Wednesday 26th April 2023Keynote: Dr Kaye Mitchell, Director of the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.Ali Smith is a pre-eminent contemporary Scottish writer whose critical significance is now increasingly matched by her public reputation. Her winning of the 2014 Goldsmith’s Prize and Costa Book Award and the [...]
Posted by on 2022-10-06
Conference, The Functions of Criticism, 19-20 May 2023, University of CambridgeKeynotes: Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University), and Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge).This event will be an interdisciplinary, two-day conference exploring questions of function, use, and method in the humanities, jointly supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social [...]
Posted by on 2022-09-15
*NEW DATE*: Join us on Friday 2nd December, 2pm for this online seminar!The first BACLS Online Seminar of 2022-23 promises to be a fascinating one: the joint winners of the 2022 BACLS Monograph Prize – Caroline Magennis (Salford) and Ian Hickey (Mary Immaculate College) – will talk about their monographs and participate in a discussion with BACLS members on issues arising from their research. [...]
Posted by on 2022-08-17
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 BACLS Monograph and Postgraduate Essay prizesThe Monograph Prize was awarded jointly to Ian Hickey, Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry (London: Routledge, 2021) and Caroline Magennis, Northern Irish Writing after the Troubles (London: Bloomsbury 2021).The Postgraduate Essay Prize was awarded to Katie Harling-Lee, ‘Caught in the Regime: [...]
Posted by on 2022-07-01
We are currently accepting offers of interest to host the biannual BACLS-WHN main conference in early September 2023. *DEADLINE for EoIs EXTENDED to 16th September 2022*BACLS is planning to return to campus for its 2023 conference, after very successful online conferences in 2020 and 2021, and we are inviting expressions of interest from potential host institutions. As part of the process of [...]
Posted by on 2022-06-18
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 marked the beginning of an important period in British writing but also an era that largely silenced women writers—particularly women writers of colour. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush, the output of women writers of colour in the UK, or Black British women writers, increased. Yet, recognition of this group was not [...]
Posted by on 2022-06-16
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2022 BACLS Executive Committee ElectionsVice-ChairZoe BulaitisSecretaryRachel SykesCommunications and Web AdministratorDiletta De CristofaroMembership SecretaryJulia DitterOrdinary MembersCharlotte TerrellLiam HarrisonKai TanRobert EaglestoneJulie TannerGraduate Student RepresentativesWiktoria TunskaEmma CatanAthira UnniWelcome to new and returning [...]
Posted by on 2022-06-06
Our next online seminar, Editing a Prize-winning Essay Collection: a How to Guide, will take place on 24th June, 2pm.In this workshop, the 2020 BACLS Edited Collection Prize winner, Jennifer Cooke, discusses the dos and don’ts of producing an edited collection with examples from her own experience. Drawing upon the first few editorial projects she did which stemmed from a conference up to The New [...]
Posted by on 2022-05-18
Voting for the 2022 Executive Committee Elections is now open.Read the statements from nominees here and cast your vote by 6th June here.
Posted by on 2022-04-30
This special issue is dedicated to papers presented at the biennial BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference that took place on 2-3 September 2021. The conference focused on representing a variety of concerns and topics represented in contemporary literature studies, and these are reflected in the articles published in this issue: they address the intersections between literary studies, video games [...]
Posted by on 2022-04-12
The BACLS Monograph Prize, The BACLS Edited Collection Prize and The BACLS Postgraduate Essay PrizeEntries are invited for work published in 2021 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’.BACLS Executive Committee members will judge the entries and award prizes to the submissions they consider to be the best in each category. The winners of the Monograph Prize and the [...]