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Nolan the Trojan: Technology and The Odyssey
Professor Adnan Mahmutovic has written an essay about Christopher Nolan's the Odessy and the ongoing debate about AI and art.
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Professor Giles Whiteley elected Fellow of the English Association
Professor Giles Whiteley was welcomed as a new Fellow at the annual EA conference on Saturday June 13 th , 2026.
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The 56th edition of the Yearbook of English Studies released
Professor Joakim Wrethed is among the editors of the 56th edition of The Yearbook of English Studies.
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Contacting us during the summer
During the summer, visiting hours at our Student Affairs Office are cancelled. Between 18 June and 9 August, our premises are closed and it will take longer before we can answer e-mails as well, as our staff are on holiday.
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Mieke Bal at Stockholm university
Department of English collaborated with IKE and Accelerator to bring you a series of hybrid events with the famous Dutch scholar Mieke Bal, the author of 50 books, and Kyoo Lee, a US philosopher. The lectures, film-screenings, panels, and book presentations, showed the extent to which Bal’s interdisciplinary oeuvre shaped a great many scholars at Stockholm university for more than three decades.
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The future of the publishing industry
The Department of English invites you to a panel discussion with international experts on Saturday, May 23 at 4:00 PM. The event will take place at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The panel discussion is part of Nobel Symposium 209.
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6 African thinkers who help us understand the world – new book
Latest publication by C. Premat, Professor in French with a focus on political discourses in the francophone world at Stockholm University.
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Ken Hyland Best Paper Award 2025 goes to Kathrin Kaufhold
Docent Kathrin Kaufhold is the winner of the Ken Hyland Best Paper Award from the Journal of English for Academic Purposes .
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World Englishes: The fourth edition has been published
The fourth, revised edition of the Routledge textbook World Englishes by Gunnel Melchers, Philip Shaw, and Peter Sundkvist is now out!
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New books
Two new books have been published so far in 2026.
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Julia Fernelius defended her thesis
Julia Fernelius has successfully defended her thesis “Furnishing Modernity: The Domestic Interior and Shifting Object Worlds in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End”.
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