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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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 Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English.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 British Comparative Literature Association has a vibrant postgraduate community with members from across the UK and abroad. The Postgraduate Representatives organise dedicated events on Comparative Literature across different universities across the UK. They are presently responsible for the BCLA Postgraduate Seminar series “Emerging Voices in Comparative Literature 2025“. If you are interested in presenting at
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.
The Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award was established by the BCLA in 2020 to offer support to postgraduates affected by the COVID pandemic, and is now the annual bursary awarded to one or more postgraduate members of the BCLA, with a value of up to £250.00. This sum may be used by for any costs incurred
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Keynote speaker: Dr Aristoteles Barcelos Neto, University of East Anglia This conference will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature, the arts, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes, enforcing cultural hierarchies, and sustaining
Keynote Speaker: Professor Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh The ontological meanings of kinship have long been a central question in academia. From the notion of ‘relatedness’ (Carsten, 2000) to the idea of the ‘mutuality of being’ (Sahlins, 2013), the static blood-based structure of kinship has now been comprehensively dismantled. In today’s world, forms of kinship are
Space in Time is a forum for new work in the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. While space history is a vibrant field of study, extending across the humanities and social sciences, it often breaks down along familiar geographical, disciplinary, and period-based boundaries.
Register to attend (registration is free but it is required to receive the link to attend) The symposium will take place online. Keynote speaker: Jarred McGinnis, in conversation with Natasha Bell. Consult the full programme and the abstracts and biographies. The ongoing Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice Seminar Series at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London invites
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