On 22 May, Polish-Belgian philosopher and writer Alicja Gescinska will deliver the fifth State of European Literature. In her lecture, Gescinska will reflect on the important, connecting role of translators. The ...

In this book, Marc Farrant argues that J. M. Coetzee’s works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions concerning the politics and ethics of literature.

Workshop 31st May 2024, University of Amsterdam, location tba Organizers: Spiros Chairetis (Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam) and Maria Boletsi (Endowed Professor of ...

At the end of the 16th century, a parchment containing a prophecy and a series of Arabic-language lead books were discovered in a former minaret and a hill just outside the city of Granada. The finds led to much ...

In this book, Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he ...

The English Department’s Dr Graham Riach has published a new book: 'The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature'. It explores how literary form helps us to think differently, what ...

On 3 November, a group of BA and MA UvA English Literature students visited the Crossing Border Literary Festival in The Hague to meet the author Richard Milward and discuss his work with him. Milward’s new novel, ...

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early-career and more advanced scholars, who wish to pursue ...