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
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
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 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 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 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...
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