We are delighted to announce that proposals and registrations for the Laurence Sterne Conference 2025 are now open. Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne marks a new publishing partnership between The Shandean and Liverpool University Press and the conference will be held at the School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool.
Exploring Rachel Speght: A Trailblazing Voice in Early Modern Polemic Writing
The Life of Rachel Speght, by Helen M. Stringer, has recently been published in the English Association Monographs: English at the Interface series. This blog post explores the biographical study of the boundary-pushing early modern polemicist Rachel Speght. At a time when geo-political borders are hardening all around us at a disturbing rate, the work of crossing … Continue reading
T.S. Eliot Studies Annual | ‘Ecology and Voice: Non-Human Speech and Songs of the Earth in The Waste Land’
To celebrate the publication of Volume 7 of the Annual, and the International T.S. Eliot Summer School, we are making the following article free to read throughout September 2025:
French Studies: The interviews (1985–2025) | A Virtual Issue
This virtual issue of French Studies brings together interviews published by the journal since 1985, featuring six of the most significant writers of this period: Annie Ernaux, Abdellah Taïa, Marie Darrieussecq, Nathalie Sarraute, Richard Ali A Mutu, and Catherine Malabou.
Pride Month 2025 Reading List
This Pride Month, we've assembled a reading list of queer histories and queer theory.