Faculty of English

Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and one of the most influential novelists writing in English today, will be in discussion with Homi Bhabha at the Schwarzman Centre on 15 Nov as part of Utopia Now!

schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/kiran…

Our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @ae_stallings will be on 'Stone Cold Pastoral: Artifice and Authenticity'

1 December
5.30pm
Theatre, Schwarzman Centre

All welcome! Free but registration required: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/professo…

Author Ali Smith will be speaking at the Schwarzman Centre as part of the Utopia Now! Conference on 14 November. She will be in conversation with Prof Peter Boxall about the role of the literary imagination in making a different future possible. Book now! schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/ali-s…

This week's recording of Ælfric of Cerne's work, read in the original Old English, is: The Opening of Genesis

You can watch the recording now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/tK0MIgVtAJI

Or find out more about the project: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/aelfri…

#OldEnglish #aelfric

The Utopia Now conference is taking place on 14-15 Nov. It brings together writers & thinkers from across disciplines, to produce a mobile critical picture of the condition of #utopian thought now. Keynotes by Ali Smith, Kiran Desai, Homi Bhabha. #Utopia schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/utopi…