Call for Papers: CVS Colloquium 2020

26 Feb 2020

Royal Holloway’s Centre for Victorian Studies welcomes proposals for the annual London Victorian Studies Colloquium, to be held on 24th-25th April 2020 in the beautiful surroundings of the college.

Booking open for the CVS Colloquium 2020

26 Feb 2020

Booking is now open for the CVS Colloquium 2020

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Success

30 Aug 2019

The Centre for Victorian Studies is delighted to welcome Dr Nicola Kirkby, who will join Royal Holloway’s English department in September, having been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

Centre for Victorian Studies’ Members on the Radio

30 Aug 2019

In the past year, several members of the Centre for Victorian Studies have been on BBC radio, sharing their expertise on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Professor Juliet John Co-Curates New Dickens Museum Exhibition

30 Aug 2019

The exhibition challenges the view of Dickens as a quintessentially British writer, by showing how he wrote for, and about the world.

RHUL English Achieves High Marks Again in the NSS 2019!

14 Jul 2019

We are delighted that our department's excellent teaching continues to be recognised, achieving 91% student satisfaction in this year's National Student Survey.

Professor Robert Hampson Appointed Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies

01 Jul 2019

Congratulations to Professor Robert Hampson, who has been appointed a Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies starting from October 2019.

Simon Pomery's First Poetry Collection Published by Fluf

01 Jul 2019

Current PhD candidate Simon Pomeroy's first book of poetry, Four Pints of Guinness for Tony Conrad, has been published by Fluf, a label based in Copenhagen and Dublin.

English and Creative Writing ranked 19th and 5th in the UK

14 Jun 2019

Released today, The Guardian university league table for 2020 sees ‘English and Creative Writing’ at Royal Holloway placed firmly in the top 20 in the UK again.

Suzanne Lansman Longlisted for Ivan Juritz Prize

31 May 2019

We are very proud to announce current practice-based PhD student Suzanne Lansman has been longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for her work 'Un/sound'!