We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s 2026 English Postgraduate Essay Prize: Lizette Gerber (1st) and Sosthenes Ekeh (2nd), with honourable mentions going to Maya Hollander & Daria Feldman. It was a v. close competition as the quality was stellar! academic.oup.com/english/page...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! YES, it’s PGR Essay Prize Competition time again! We are delighted to open this year’s competition, and invite PGRs from across the diverse fields of English to submit their essays. Details can be found here: academic.oup.com/english/page...

Delighted to share the news of our winner for the *special* 2025 Fellows Award: Kathy Halliday #FE English teacher from Barnsley College. Outstanding inspirational work that we are pleased to celebrate! 🙌👏🥳🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⬇️

My article on Nancy Pearn’s editorial contribution to D. H. Lawrence’s late journalistic essays is out in @englishjournaloup.bsky.social - big thanks for peer reviewers’ insightful feedback and editors’ kind support throughout! (1/2 doi.org/10.1093/engl...

Our latest issue is a celebration of the brilliant work being carried out by Early Career Researchers across our discipline(s), containing scintillating studies from Old English to postmodernity. Link here: academic.oup.com/english/issu...

Chuffed that my (first!) article is now out in @englishjournaloup.bsky.social. So, if you want to know what connects rivalrous printers, Thomas Nashe, and talking cats, then do have a read! 1/2 academic.oup.com/english/arti...

Deadline this week 31 Jan!

📢 PGR Essay Competition 📢 Submissions are still open for our annual PGR essay competition: cash prizes, publication + membership of @englishassociation.bsky.social! More details here academic.oup.com/english/page...

My new year's day poem of 2021, originally published in @englishjournaloup.bsky.social

The deadline for the journal English's Postgraduate Essay Prize is quickly approaching -- January 31. Please consider submitting your work and spreading the word! @englishjournaloup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/english/page...

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📢 PGR Essay Competition 📢 Submissions are now open for our annual PGR essay prize competition - please share widely. See the screenshots below or our webpages for more details academic.oup.com/english/page... We look forward to your entries!

In Nov. 2023, we mark 400 yrs since the ‘First Folio’ was published. In celebration of this occasion, we’d like to highlight our special collection of Shakespeare Bookmarks: these FREE accessible, informative resources will help develop knowledge & interest! englishassociation.ac.uk/in-celebrati...