Join us Wed 11 March for two brilliant English events - Connie Scozzaro (Brown University)
“Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare” 5:00–6:30pm, Kennedy Hall (Garden Room)
Dr Tom Hubbard - “Making light of the great dark?” 5:30–7:00pm, School III, St Salvator’s Quad
All welcome!
A powerful and pertinent read from SoE's Dina Nayeri, as she explores the legacy of protest in Iran since 1979 in her latest piece for the Wall Street Journal. Read more: https://ow.ly/ZN6r50YnC6v
Today's the day! Dr Richard Barlow and Dr Rosa Campbell on their research into failure and the nonhuman in poetry and the work of James Joyce. Open to all staff and students. 2-4pm in the Garden Seminar Room.
Discover the poets shaping St Andrews’ creative pulse - and be tempted to take the mic yourself. 🎤 FORSPOKEN @ Aikman’s Bar! Poetry features + open mic. Sat 28 Feb | 18:30 🎟 Pay‑what‑you‑can - prepare to be bewitched.
Join Nicholas Allen's Book Launch & Talk on Late Heaney's final poetry collections 📅 Thu 26 Feb 2026 🕕 6–8pm 📍 Kennedy Hall 🎟 Limited space, book now!
Tune in to RTE Lyric FM on Sun 15th Feb at 6pm for Prof Sara Lodge's radio documentary about Victorian novelist Rosa Mulholland. In it, Sara travels across Ireland unearthing fascinating all-new material about Mulholland's life & work: https://ow.ly/2WyZ50YffX5
Tune in this Sunday, 6pm on RTÉ Lyric FM as Professor Sara Lodge’s feature-length documentary on Irish Victorian writer Rosa Mulholland is broadcast . A journey through archives, islands, and forgotten literary history — not to be missed!
Listen here: https://ow.ly/4qxP50Yf3Xa
Join us for the 2026 Andrew Lang Memorial Lecture! 📅 Wed 11 March, 5.30pm 📍 School II, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews 🎙 Dr Tom Hubbard on “Making Light of the Great Dark? Andrew Lang on American Literature." Don't miss this inspiring evening - everyone welcome!
The University is offering a fully-funded scholarship in English for prospective PhDs undertaking research in the following project:
Exporting the Nation: Making the Commonwealth, Re-making Men (Supervised by Prof Plain & Dr Purdon)
https://ow.ly/KZ7t50Y9Uwm
Closing date: 27 Feb
Happy Birthday, Joyce! Here’s a new Finnegans Wake website I've developed with Research Computing at St Andrews: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/elucidationo...
@starcnet.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #IrishStudies
The cover of Late Heaney by Nicholas Allen
Really looking forward to welcoming @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social to St Andrews for the launch of his new book, Late Heaney.
6:00pm on Thursday, February 26
Garden Room, Kennedy Hall
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/late-...
Did anybody catch the first episode of This Thing of Darkness on Radio 4 yesterday? Written by Frances Poet with monologues by Eileen Horne and a whole host of first actors. Next episode airs on Tuesday 10th February but all episodes are available on BBC Sounds.
https://ow.ly/z33J50Y8GQ0
Essential listening. This week on Story: David Herd on refugees, language, and who gets to count. Sharp, timely, and utterly essential. 🎧 https://ow.ly/o7Lm50Y5WVJ"
We are delighted to announce our Medieval & Renaissance Candlemas Semester events, featuring research talks, readings, a conference, and the irresistible Pizza & PowerPoint social presented in partnership with our Creative Writers. Get those dates in your diary!
Thrilled to see this beautiful, in-depth review of David Herd's Walk Song in Little Mirror . 📔The art of criticism is far from dead... https://ow.ly/AHw150Y1Irx
Huge congratulation to SoE's Karen Solie on winning the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for WELLWATER! 🥳 What an incredible achievement. Karen's insight, creativity and brilliance continues to inspire us all.🤩 #ProudDepartment #TS-EliotPrize
Work with us! The School of English is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose).
Closing Date: 27 Feb 2026
For more information and to apply please see:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Today marks 50 years since the death of author Agatha Christie. To celebrate the legacy of the Queen of crime fiction, Professor Gill Plain from the School of English gives her top 5 pics for Christie beginners. Happy sleuthing! #AgathaChristie
#EverToExcel
We are dizzyingly proud of our colleague Anindya Raychaudhuri on the release of his new book: A Cultural History of Vertigo.
https://ow.ly/YxQj50XJsVh
Did you know members of the community can join the University library? You can borrow 10 items at a time and membership costs £30 a year.
Pop along to the library and bring:
🪪 Two forms of ID – one photographic
✉️ Proof of address from the last 3 months
#EverToExcel
A new addition to the video interview series '10 Minutes With' that introduce our members: this time, IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats to Peter Mackay, Senior Lecturer at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social and Scottish Makar.
Summer holidays are nearly over. Some choose the sun. Some choose to relax. Our hero spends the day cycling 100 miles round Perthshire to raise an amazing £2600 for charity. What an achievement Anindya! Donate to ow.ly/1r8L50WQore
✨ Author Spotlight - Peter MacKay ✨
Scotland's first native Gaelic speaking Makar, Padraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay), will open the book festival in conversation with Islay's own Iseabail Mactaggart.
www.islaybookfestival.co.uk
Congratulations to our own Johnny McKnight - his show She's Behind You has won a Fringe First award!
These awards recognise new pieces of work that have garnered acclaim & prominence at the Fringe.
The show is on until 24 Aug: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/shes-...
Dr Peter Mackay will be taking part in 3 events at @edbookfest next week:
11 Aug, 6pm, Our Mother Tongues www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
12 Aug, 1.30pm, Translating Poetry www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
12 Aug, 6pm, Meeting One’s Makar
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Congratulations to Prof Gill Plain on the publication of her latest book Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction:
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It examines Christie's capacity to register the zeitgeist, and considers how Christie's novels reveal anxieties surrounding various topics
An article titled "Agatha Christie’s mid-century ‘manosphere’ reveals a different kind of dysfunctional male", written by our own Professor Gill Plain was recently published by @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/agatha-chris...
