Our outstanding research environment and our impact on public life, community, and culture have been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of volume 43 of Postgraduate English, our groundbreaking journal which has been publishing worldwide early-career literature scholars since 2000.

For this year’s biennial Lumiere light festival Durham University have brought together the producers, Artichoke, and regional writing development agency New Writing North, on an exciting collaboration that will see new works from some of the UK’s leading poets light up Durham Castle. Among them is prize winning writer Kayo Chingonyi, an Assistant Professor in our Department. Here Kayo talks about his involvement and how poetry has been a central part of his life.

A new multimedia exhibition curated by Dr Louisa Uchum Egbunike commemorates the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970), and examines the legacies of Biafra by showcasing works from the artistic collective Nigeria Art Society UK (NASUK).

What role might fiction play in helping readers to come to terms with the climate crisis? Dr Naomi Booth shares her ‘idea for positive change’ in this talk recorded for Durham Book Festival.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of volume 42 of Postgraduate English, our groundbreaking journal which has been publishing worldwide early-career literature scholars since 2000.

Our popular Late Summer Lecture series will travel through the past, present and future of literature this summer.

We are celebrating the phenomenal success of two of our own - Sunjeev Sahota and Kayo Chingonyi - following the recognition their work has received from the Booker Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry respectively.

Durham University researchers are changing the way people think about experiences of hearing voices.

People who hear voices, their families and mental health professionals will benefit from a new information and support website based on research by Durham University.

As part of the Life of Breath project, Professor Jane Macnaughton, Co-Director in the Centre for Medical Humanities, examines Breathlessness and looks at how research may lead to new treatments to relieve the distressing symptoms of this debilitation condition.

What has it been like to study English during the pandemic?