Research News

  • International speakers at Departmental Research Seminar

    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...

  • Mind Altering Books Seminar 2022

    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...

  • Visiting lecturer from the University of Lleida, Catalunya, Spain

    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.

  • UP student Lauren Senna Fouché wins South African Translators’ Institute Student Prize 2020 for research on use of plain English in science material for educators

    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.

  • New Book publication: The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn – Light from the East by Antony Goedhals

    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...

  • Unwrapping UPs Creative Writing Programme

    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...

  • Science fiction offers a useful way to explore China-Africa relations

    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...

  • 2017 Humanities for the Environment Conference

    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.

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