To celebrate 50 years at the forefront of local, national and international literary studies, the School of English is hosting a Festival of English throughout 2015.
Members of the School will be showcasing their current research in a series of public events hosted on campus and in the city of Canterbury.
Highlights include: a residency by the renowned poet Patience Agbabi, who will be performing her contemporary version of The Canterbury Tales entitled ‘Telling Tales’; a lecture series highlighting Canterbury and Kent’s prominent literary figures; and a performance of the opera Tokaido Road, based on the award-winning poems by Nancy Gaffield, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
The Festival will open with Professor Peter Brown’s lecture on Chaucer entitled “Ymad for lewede men’: Writers and Canterbury 1340–1420’. The lecture will take place at 6.30pm in the Reading Room of Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library on Tuesday 3 February. This is part of an Open Lecture Series which celebrates the rich literary and cultural heritage of Canterbury and Kent.
The Festival of English is free and open to all. For more information, see the School of English webpages.