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25-26 May
Conference: "The United States and China: Friends, Foes, or Frenemies?"

Read more about the conference and details about speakers and venue at the conference website.

28 May
EXPLORING THE [DIGITAL] MEDIUM. 2012 Symposium: “Gaming the Humanities”.

Symposium website with programme and information about invited speakers.
Poster

11 June, at 13.15
Natalya Lusty, Chair, Gender and Culture Studies, University of Sydney,
will be talking on "'Dream Kitsch': Surrealism, Walter Benjamin and the
Agency of the Dream".

Venue: 16-1044
More info.

7-8 September
Terrorism and the Literary Imagination - An International Symposium.
Uppsala University, September 7-8, 2012.

Contact person: Robert Appelbaum

More information about the symposium and registration.

View poster

Previous Guest Lectures and seminars

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Welcome to the Department of English

English Park Campus. Photo by Tommy Westberg

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.

The English Park Campus Students

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 and how to join.

The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive
Conrad First is an open-access archive of the serials which first published the work of Joseph Conrad. It is sponsored by The Joseph Conrad Society UK and the Department of English, Uppsala University.

News/Events

New Doctoral Thesis in English Literature

Anna Watz: "A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic": Angela Carter and Surrealism.
The public defense takes place on 8 June 2012 at 13.15 in Geijersalen, English Park campus.
New Book - Gunnar Sorelius

The Revolution of Sweden by Catherine Trotter (1674-1749). Edited by Gunnars Sorelius.
New Licentiate Thesis in American Literature

Anna Borgström: Dressing up and the Art of Jamaica Kincaid.
New Doctoral Thesis in English Linguistics

Susanna Lyne: "The Subject of the Verbal Gerund: A Study of Variation in English."
The Disa Award to Erik Åsard

The 2011 Disa Award has been awarded to Prof. Erik Åsard, Director of SINAS at the English Department.
Read more about the award (in Swedish).
Read an interview with Erik Åsard (in Swedish).
Read article in Ergo (in Swedish).
Pedagogical Award to Angela Falk

The 2011 Pedagogical Award in the field of Theology, Humanities and Educational Sciences has been awarded to Angela Falk, Senior Lecturer at the Department of English.
Among the top 100

The English Department at Uppsala University ranks among the 51-100 best in the world, according to QS World University Rankings' recent survey. Go to QS World University Rankings.
New Book - David Watson

Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing, edited by Cecilia Alvstad, Stefan Helgesson and David Watson. More info. about the book.
New Book - Frida Beckman

Deleuze and Sex, edited by Frida Beckman. More info about the book.
New Book - Angela Falk

Thinking and Writing in Academic Contexts: A University Companion. More info. about the book.

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