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…

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‘Impossible to plan’ for research and teaching, say staff, as threat of redundancy looms large over summer breaks

Why does Hope exist? Imagine fleeing persecution and having to seek protection in another land. You’d hope for welcome, sympathy and for your rights to be respected. Sadly the British asylum system i...

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...

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

To be a Neet is to feel a singular shame and self-loathing, a sense of being apart from everybody else

Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “norm...

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

J.H. Prynne was not a name to conjure with when I was a first-year English student at Cambridge in 1966. As far as I...

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

Arts university hopes latest ‘transformation plan’ will help it survive, but staff fear much-lauded institution will be left ‘devastated’

The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...

On her new album, “Ambiguous Desire,” the U.K. star swaps downbeat musings for dance music. But even her disco is deep

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

“I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I’ve studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”

The attack on the small town of Nabi Chit in the eastern Bekaa Valley on 6 March shows the value placed on human lives...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.

How I came to write a sequel 20 years later

The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

“The essays ChatGPT produced in mere seconds are quite plausible as the last-minute work of a rushed undergraduate.”

It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

This essay examines the intersection of life-writing, network systems, and literary experimentation. Confessional forms of literature have inevitably transformed with the proliferation of mass comm...

There is no real middlebrow any more.