This article examines Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) as a transformative contribution to the emerging genre of Muslim women’s Bildungsroman in Anglophone literature. The novel ...

This chapter historicises the recent emergence of Philippine environmental literature set in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (2013), known

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Publishes on southern African history, historiography and commemoration of the past from pre-colonial communities to a 21st Century society in transition.

Published in Global South Literary Studies (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles,...

Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

Take Your Research Public is a free practical course aimed at academic researchers (from mid-PhD onwards) who want to develop writing for magazines, social media, podcasts, radio or the broad trade…

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Jane Barker’s Galesia Trilogy tells the story of Galesia, a young woman who had not only studied simples and botany with her brother but also the anatomy scholarship of Thomas Willis and William Ha...

Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2025)

Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...

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Explore the article collection: Adapting Wuthering Heights. Published in Brontë Studies.

Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the...

Gardens have long occupied a prominent place in the British cultural imagination. Recently, the compounding crises of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic brought both the degradation of the en...

This article examines Steve Alten’s MEG series (1997–) as a gothic narrative of survival that transforms the prehistoric-survivor fantasy into an allegory of male vanishing. Drawing on the intertwi...

Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is using the censorship of Plato from his course syllabus to teach his students about freedom of speech

This study investigates how non-academic readers engage with Asian American literature through AI-assisted sentiment analysis of online reviews of Celeste Ng's novels. Ng's novels represent two mot...

An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.

Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare