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- English Department ranked first within Sweden 2021-03-30 The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 places Stockholm University within the global top 50 in five subjects. Fourteen subjects, of which English Language and Literature is one, are also ranked first within Sweden.
- Information for students and staff about the coronavirus 2020-03-18 Information on the coronavirus in relation to Stockholm University's activities is updated continuously.
- Giles Whiteley awarded a sabbatical 2020-03-05 Giles Whiteley, Associate Professor (docent) in English with a specialization in literature, has been awarded a sabbatical semester at Oxford University in the spring of 2021 to work on a critical edition of Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (1885).
- Funding awarded for project on Narrative Events 2019-11-11 Marina Ludwigs, lecturer and researcher at the Department of English, has been awarded funding from “Riksbankens Jubileumsfond” for her project “Narrative Events and Eventful Models in Physics: A Mutual Reflection”.
- Researcher at the Department of English wins award for best essay 2017-10-02 Gül Bilge Han’s essay "The Poetics of Relational Place-Making and Autonomy in Stevens" is the recipient of the 2017 John N. Serio Award for Best Essay.
- Exempel och inspiration kring samverkan 2017-05-26 Hur går det att samverka inom humanvetenskap och vilka exempel finns? Det var frågor som belystes vid en halvdag om samverkan den 23 maj.
- Meeting of GALA members at Chancellor installation 2016-11-16 On November 4, 2016, Bath Spa University installed its first ever Chancellor, the Academy Award winning actor Jeremy Irons.
- Comics, War and Ordinary Miracles 2016-09-21 Our colleague Adnan Mahmutovic has recorded a radio adaptation of his essay "How to Save Comics in Times of War" for BBC Radio 4.
- Investigating English in Europe: Contexts and Agendas 2016-09-06 New book published with contributions from Beyza Björkman and Josep Soler-Carbonell.
- “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures” receives 43.8 million from RJ 2016-05-17 Stefan Helgesson, professor in the Department of English, has received a major research grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation to develop a research programme together with a group of researchers from Stockholm University and four other Swedish universities.
- Congratulations to the 2015 Horowitz Prize Winner 2016-04-26 We would like to congratulate Professor Maria Kuteeva (Department of English, Stockholm University) and Dr Raffaella Negretti (Chalmers University of Technology) on their being awarded the Horowitz Prize for the best article published in English for Specific Purposes in 2015.
- Professional Language Programme ranked third by the Swedish business association 2016-03-03 The Swedish business association has evaluated a number of programmes offered by Swedish universities to determine their connection to professional practice.
- New book: The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes 2016-02-03 Edited by Ken Hyland and Philip Shaw. Includes chapters by Beyza Björkman, Maria Kuteeva, Spela Mezek, and Philip Shaw.
- Institutions of World Literature 2015-08-11 This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalizationnot as limitations, but as challenges to understand how literature may simultaneously function as an enabling and exclusionary world of its own.
- Reading from book launch of "Platonic Occasions" 2015-06-02 On 29 May, the Department of English and Stockholm University Press hosted an event to celebrate the publication of the first title in the new Stockholm University Press and Stockholm English Studies series: Richard Begam and James Soderholm’s "Platonic Occasions: Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture".
- Awards for our poet-in-residence Jill Jones 2015-01-08 We are very pleased that our poet-in-residence Jill Jones was a joint winner of the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for 2014 and has also been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
- English Department represented at Bellmanstafetten 2014-08-27
- Joint SU-UW-Madison workshop on writing for publication 2014-06-11 “Writing for publication in English literature and linguistics”, a workshop for PhD students at the Universities of Stockholm and Wisconsin-Madison, took place on 9 and 10 June and resulted in a productive exchange of ideas between major journal editors and junior scholars.
- Our department’s 2013 research publications ranked third in the Humanities Faculty 2014-05-25 According to a recent report produced by Stockholm University Library, the Department of English is ranked third for the volume and quality of its publications in relation to the department’s size.
- Conference on comic guru Grant Morrison 2014-03-06 "Which side are you on? The worlds of Grant Morrison" was a workshop that Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic and Frank Bramlett organized on the 19th and 20th of December, here at the English department.
- Research Seminars: Anthropology and World Literature 2013-02-13 Mondays 13.00-15.00, room B600, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University.