#English at #York has been placed 34th in the world according to the QS World University Rankings by subject (2024). QS Rankings assess over 50 subjects at over 1,400 universities, on academic and employer reputation and research impact. https://t.co/DA6dxpfUXf

#OnThisDay in 1945 Victory in Europe was declared by Winston Churchill. To mark the occasion, take a look at five books curated by Five Books which address World War II and the Holocaust

"A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British voices panel". What does it mean to write, read, and critically engage with literature amidst an ongoing genocide? This panel will delve into the work of Nada Shawa, Mohammed Ghalayini, and Azhar Herez.

"Use the words you have to get the words you need" In this performance-lecture Professor Kimberly Campanello explores how to feel our way with the words we have toward the ones we need. Periphrasis is a key on a ring, a set of words to pass.

"Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice: A conversation and a poetry reading" Dr Nicoletta Asciuto in conversation with Dr Boriana Alexandrova and Prof Kimberly Campanello. Chaired by Alice Flinta. Monday 19 May 2025, 5pm to 7pm

#OnThisDay in 1813 #Danish #writer and #philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard is considered to be the first existentialist philosopher and much of his work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual"

Join us next week for "Those Passions: On Art, Politics, and Psychoanalysis", an event coinciding with the publication of T.J. Clark’s "Those Passions: On Art and Politics" and featuring Adam Phillips in conversation with T. J. Clark.

Dr Kenneth Clarke talks about studying and writing about Dante as a part of an academic course. This film is part of the university's "Writing Resources", a range of simple resources to help anyone improve the quality of their writing.

#OnThisDay in 1923 #American #novelist Joseph Heller was born in New York, US. Heller was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature and his best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy.

Congratulations to @WRoCAH PhD researcher Gertrude Gibbons for curating this wonderful upcoming event at the Kosciuszko Foundation Washington DC Center: Witkacy: Madness, Art, and Adventure. A Talk and Film Screening

Briony Hughes: Water Poetics III is tomorrow at 5.30pm. Hughes is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing (Royal Holloway University London) whose publications include Rhizomes, Milk, Dorothy, Microsporidial, and RHIZOME or TAPROOT

#OnThisDay we say #HappyBirthday to #American #poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Komunyakaa was awarded the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for" Neon Vernacular" and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award.

Something happened to poetry in the last century. Lines and stanzas exploded, crumbled, or evaporated. Hieroglyphs, neon signs, musical notation, photographs and geometrical oddities proliferated. Explore our #undergraduate module "The Stuff of Poetry"

#OnThisDay in 1926 #American #novelist Harper Lee was born in Alabama, US. Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and she also assisted close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood.

#DidYouKnow our 2nd year #undergraduate module "Modern Latin American Literature" discusses literary responses to dictatorship and authoritarianism, conflict, colonialism, race, class in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico.

#OnThisDay in 1873 #English #poet and #novelist Walter De La Mare was born in Charlton, Kent. De La Mare is remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "All Hallows".

#OnThisDay in 1815 #English #novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London. Trollope wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues and is known for his the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. https://t.co/CCVP45gIbz

#OnThisDay in 1564 #English #playwright and #poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare's works include 39 plays, 154 sonnets and long narrative poems. He is regarded as the world's pre-eminent dramatist. https://t.co/o3j0DoJydv

Shandy Hall reopens at 11am Thursday May 1st with a GRAND BOOK SALE. The Gallery and the Shandy Shop are filled with generous donations to raise funds. Includes books on art, literature, clocks, antiques, Folio Society volumes and many other subjects. https://t.co/on5YEKPdeQ

The Annual Riddy lecture "Medieval Fictionality: Poetics, Emotion, and Chaucer" is on Tuesday 29th April. It explores late-medieval understandings of what fiction was, and the relationship between poetry, rhetoric, and ethics in the later Middle Ages https://t.co/wZOZqM1sMm.

#OnThisDay it is World Creativity and Innovation Day 2025. Find out more about the interplay between human creativity and ideas and intellectual property, knowledge and technology.