Posted on March 03, 2023
The UP English department is pleased to advertise three posts at the levels of Lecturer (1), Senior Lecturer (1), and Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor. The closing date for applications is 10 March 2023. For further details please see the attachments, and for any queries please...
Posted on October 07, 2022
The fourth annual Mind Altering Books Seminar took place on the 26th of September 2022, fully-booked with an audience eager to listen to the four speakers talk about the way in which particular books contributed to shaping their lives and identities. Scholars usually consider books critically in...
Posted on October 07, 2022
On 29th September, the English Department held its first departmental research seminar since the onset of the pandemic, with international guest speakers. Dr Esther Pujolràs Noguer from the University of Lleida, and her colleague Dr Felicity Hand, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona...
Posted on October 07, 2022
Dr Esther Pujolràs Noguer visited the English Department for the week of 26-30 September 2022, on a teaching exchange as part of the University of Pretoria’s Erasmus+ Exchange Programme with the University of Lleida in Spain.
Posted on June 28, 2022
The University of Pretoria recently joined St Alban’s College in paying tribute to an ex-teacher of the school and alumnus of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies as well as the Department of English.
Posted on September 15, 2021
The vice-chancellor's inaugural lecture took place on the 19th August 2021. It marked Prof. Kupe's installation as a full professor in the English Department. His lecture was entitled 'New Media, New Society: Reimagining Media and Society in a Disrupted Age'.
Posted on May 03, 2021
Playwright Athol Fugard, politician Aziz Pahad and author Dr Abraham De Vries had honorary doctorates in Literature conferred on them in a virtual ceremony on 30 April.
Posted on November 27, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities' Lauren Senna Fouché was jointly awarded the 2020 SATI student prize, a prestigious recognition for the most deserving full master’s dissertation dealing with translation, interpreting, text editing and related areas, including terminography and lexicography.
Posted on September 15, 2020
The Department of Library Services and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the annual Mind-Altering Books webinar. The event is typically held in recognition of National Book Week, which runs from 2 to 8 September annually, and is hosted to inculcate a...
Posted on June 18, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities would like to extend its congratulations to Dr Antony Goedhals from the English Department for his book The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East. Dr Goedhals has published before on Hearn, including ‘Revisioning Reality: Transcending Space...
Posted on April 14, 2020
Dr John Boje (83) is one of 11 000 University of Pretoria (UP) graduates who were awarded their qualifications in absentia earlier this week during a virtual ceremony necessitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on March 30, 2020
In 2019, Professor David Medalie received an award from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences for his anthology of short stories, Recognition. This is, however, not the first award Prof Medalie has won for his literary works – he has also received numerous accolades for...
Posted on March 16, 2020
Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, a linguist from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen visited the department from 21st February to 28th February as part of an international exchange. He gave a fascinating staff seminar entitled "Multiple Sluicing in English: Theoretical and Experimental...
Posted on March 04, 2020
As librarians, we know that reading is fundamental. In fact, it is one of the most important ingredients in becoming all that you can be. It is our responsibility to encourage a reading culture in our communities and this begins with our little ones. That is why seven staff members representing...
Posted on October 09, 2019
In 2007 the then President of China, Hu Jintao, delivered a speech to South Africans acknowledging the benefits of a strategic partnership. He also stressed that the connection is not merely pragmatic. It must, he argued, serve to honour and deepen the countries’ long abiding friendship in...
Posted on September 07, 2018
It’s a proud moment in any academic’s life when their students graduate, but it’s an even bigger one when their students graduate from their doctoral studies. During this year’s Spring Graduation, Prof David Medalie had the rare honour (particularly in the Faculty of...
Posted on August 01, 2017
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship is bringing together scholars to generate discussion and research into using the broad field of the humanities and its related disciplines to understand and engage with global environmental problems.
Posted on May 24, 2017
The Department of English, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services, at the University of Pretoria continues to engage actively with what is happening on the literary scene in South Africa by inviting local poets and writers to their frequent Meet Your Writers events.
Posted on April 06, 2017
Journalist and author, Fred Khumalo, recently shared his thoughts with an audience of staff and students at the 'Meet your Writers’ event organised by the Department of English, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus.
Posted on April 06, 2017
Prof. Medalie's anthology, Recognition, has been selected for Exclusive Books’ Homebru 2017
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