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Calendar
16-17 May
Symposium "The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature and Culture"
22 May, 14.15-16.00
Matthew Frye Jacobson,
Yale University, will give a lecture entitled "Interpreting the 'Post' of 'Post-Civil Rights'"
Venue: 16-0054, English Park Campus
Poster
30 May, 10.15-12.00
John Ayto gives a lecture entitled "Adventures in Gastrolinguistics: the Development of English Food and Drink Vocabulary".
Venue: 16-0043, English Park Campus
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Welcome to the Department of English
At the Department of English, we are dedicated to teaching and researching the English language and its literatures. Offering a stimulating learning environment, we teach courses in literature and language, and in American Studies. Our center for Celtic studies is the only one of its kind in Scandinavia.
For Distance Students
Here you will find information about our distance courses. For students enrolled on a distance course there is information about how to get started.
Exploring the [Digital] Medium
The primary goal of E[D]M is to create a forum for informal intellectual exploration of digital and interactive media as sites of expression and creation, and as new tools and paradigms for global communication and social interaction. Find out more about E[D]M.
Conrad First is an open-access archive of the 200+ serials which first published the work of Joseph Conrad. Created by Stephen Donovan, it is sponsored by the Department of English, Uppsala University.
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Twelfth Nordic Conference for English Studies: Deadline extended The submission deadline for our forthcoming conference on October 10-13 has been extended to Thursday, April 4th, 2013. Visit the conference website for more information. |
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Merja Kytö awarded the Torgny Segerstedt Medal Professor Merja Kytö, Department of English, has been awarded the Torgny Segerstedt Medal for her outstanding work in English linguistics. Read press release in Swedish. Read more about the Torgny Segerstedt Medal. |
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Call for Papers: Twelfth Nordic Conference for English Studies Uppsala, Sweden, October 10-13, 2013: "Places and Non-Places of English". The deadline for proposals for the NAEs has now been extended to April 4. |
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Italian translation of Dishing It Out Italian translation of Robert Appelbaum's book Dishing It Out is now available: De Gustibus. Alla ricerca dell'esperienza gastronomica. Translated by B. Sonego. With a preface by Carlo Petrini. |
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Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism. Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery (eds). Broadview Press. More information about the book. |
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New Doctoral Thesis in English Literature
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New Doctoral Thesis in English Literature
The public defense takes place on 8 June 2012 at 13.15 in Geijersalen, English Park campus.
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Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa. Pickering and Chatto Publishers. 2013. volume 3 in a three-volume set titled Political Future Fictions: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. General Editor: Kate Macdonald; Volume Editors: Richard Bleiler and Stephen Donovan. 
Elsa Högberg. Intimacies: Ethics and Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing
Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends & Neighbours. Philip J. Andersson och Dag Blanck (editors). 
English Corpus Linguistics: Crossing Paths, Merja Kytö (editor).
Anna Watz: "A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic": Angela Carter and Surrealism.