The next BCLA Research Seminar will take place on Thursday, 22 October 2026, at 2-3pm. It will be held online and everyone’s warmly welcome! To join, click here: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/97642083271 Speaker: Professor Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds) Title: Global Colour: Literary Space and the Achronotope Abstract: This presentation will introduce the rationale behind a forthcoming book
11 December 2025, 1.30-4.30pm The seminar celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) by bringing together scholars whose interdisciplinary work offers new perspectives on literature, history, and translation. Everyone’s welcome to attend, but prior registration is required. Registration page: https://essex-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/mn3yyRG8QAW-Cp6nD1jVKg Programme: Session 1: 1.30-3pm Christopher Rundle: ‘Translation under
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The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. For more details,
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The BCLA turns fifty in 2025! To celebrate this important milestone, we have developed a series of events organised by colleagues at the BCLA, which will take place in 2025 and 2026. We wanted to see a wide spread of themes and coverage, and to make these events inclusive and cost-free, they are largely taking
We are delighted to announce to the winner of the BCLA First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The inaugural award goes to Dr Cedric Van Dijck’s Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press). The jury, which included Prof. Ziad Elmarsafy, Prof.
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The BCLA is delighted to relaunch the Arthur Terry Essay Prize as part of the BCLA@50 celebrations. The prize, awarded by the British Comparative Literature Association, recognises work of outstanding merit at Masters level.
Please find below the results of the 2024 competition. Many thanks to everyone who entered. The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School
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The BCLA launched the First Book Prize in 2023, with a deadline of 1 January 2024, and the prize to be awarded in 2025. The First Book Prize recognises an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The BCLA First Book Prize 2025 will be awarded to a book published between 1st January
The winners of the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition have been announced, and their translations can now be read in the most recent issue of Comparative Critical Studies. The competition, which honors the memory of the 17th-century English poet and translator John Dryden, is held annually and recognizes outstanding translations of literary works from any
The final issue of Comparative Critical Studies for 2022 is now available online: Postcolonial Speculative LiteratureGuest Edited by July Blalack and Tasnim Qutait https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/19/3 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Speculative Fiction Beyond the WestTasnim Qutait and July Blalack 19(3), pp. 281–296 Essays ‘Poison Rainbows’: The Speculative Jurisdiction of Okorafor’s LagoonTabea Wilkes19(3), pp. 299–313 ‘Uncertain Voyages of Signification’: Salvage Poetics of the CaribatopiaCathy Thomas19(3), pp. 315–340 Borders, Boundaries and
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