Ex-MA student to edit peer reviewed academic journal about zombies

Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird. The guest editor of an upcoming edition about the cultural evolution of the zombie is 2017-18 MA English student Anthony Anderson. You can view the Call for Papers here.

Latest edition of the Journal of Intercultural Inquiry out now

The new edition of the Journal of Intercultural Inquiry edited by Drs Geoff Nash and Michael Pearce is out now. Its diverse articles (by authors based in China, Scotland, Germany and Canada) cover Chinese conceptions of world history, Kazuo Ishiguro, and the experiences of Muslim overseas students in the UK. Enjoy it here.

Sunderland Literature Festival 2018

Once again, the School of Culture was well represented at the annual Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival, with talks by Dr Geoff Nash on the sea as literary imagery from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the novels of Amitav Ghosh; Dr Delphine Doucet on 'religion at the dinner table - a sixteenth century dialogue'; Dr Miguel Gomes on the Codex Amiatinus. The festival also saw the launch of the latest offerings from Spectral Visions Press - the School's own in-house student-led publishing company.