Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.

Join us in the first of this year's BACLS seminars for a talk and Q&A discussion with Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier) and Jay Shelat (Ursinus College). We'll…

This article analyses narratives of upward social mobility in two recent English novels, Exit Management (2020) by Naomi Booth and Assembly (2021) by Natasha Brown. It identifies various trajectories ...

Climate change is often framed as an intractable or ‘wicked’ problem, with the temporal scope of the crisis being one of the key challenges. This article explores how climate fiction can deploy nonlin...

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

This essay uses the multivalent analytic framework of ‘exquisite corpse’ collage as a way of reading Helen Oyeyemi’s 2015 novel, Boy, Snow, Bird. Starting with a scene in which two characters produce ...

This essay is a review of Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous,...

Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw warns Birmingham City University’s decision part of extremist campaign that has ‘travelled across Atlantic’

What is it that so fascinates us about the places where writers live and create? Join writer Katie da Cunha Lewin as she dismantles the familiar furniture of the writer’s room and opens it up to view.

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...