Books That Matter: Feluda by Satyagit Ray
Ira Bhattacharjee BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I first encountered the works of Satyajit Ray as a child who mostly consumed English authors and…
Books That Matter: White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Yasmina Snyder BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I find myself returning annually to Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, a novel about a young protagonist, Astrid,…
Books That Matter: Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Lee Mayer BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I bought my copy of Angels in America at the National Theatre Bookshop shortly after I…
Books that Matter: Orientalism by Edward Said
Nabila Ahmed BA English, Goldsmiths, University of London When I began studying English, I thought I loved literature for its beauty: for Shakespeare’s language, for the drama of tragedy,…
Experts in the Community
Experts in the Community Dr Joanna Nissel is a poet and Operations Lead at Bath Spa University’s The Story Society, an interdisciplinary research centre exploring the use of Story…
UE 2025 Book Prize Winner Louis Klee
Louis Klee, The Constellational Novel (Oxford University Press, 2025). Institutional affiliation: University of Cambridge This is an original, significant and rigorous piece of scholarship on the relationship between the contemporary novel and…
REF 2029 Open Forum Resources
The slides from the REF 2029 Open Forum are now available in the Consultations and Reports section of our Resources page.
Poetic social infrastructure: Foregrounding relational, everyday heritage through poetry
Dr Joseph Owen is a senior researcher on the AHRC And Towns projects, a specialist policy officer for Public Policy | Southampton and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities and a critic of…
University English Book Prize Shortlist 2025
Congratulations to our 2025 shortlist! Eleanor Careless, Jade French, Louis Klee and Hannah Lucas Shortlist Overview Eleanor Careless, Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve Your Own Sentences (Bloomsbury…
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers This blog is from Dr Aiysha Jahan, a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University in Wales.…