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Marmaduke Pickthall: A Forgotten English Novelist
Rediscovering Marmaduke Pickthall: the man who translated the Qur’an into English.
English Literature Graduates’ Highlights
The highlights of studying literature at Portsmouth—from the graduates themselves!
Why I love English Literature at the University of Portsmouth
Level 4 student Emily Hopper discusses her experiences of studying literature at the University of Portsmouth.
Atiya: The most iconoclastic of the Fyzee sisters
Md. Mahmudul Hasan provides a fascinating account of the traveller and iconoclast Atiya Fyzee.
Launch of the Portsmouth Literature: Interactive Map
The English Literature section of SASHPL are delighted to launch the ‘Portsmouth Literature Interactive Map’ at https://litmap.nautoguide.com/#Home.
University of Portsmouth English Literature Resources in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Anti-racism
Following requests for suggested reading, and in response to our own sense of a need to keep educating ourselves, the staff and students of English Literature at Portsmouth have put together this reading list of informative works regarding ‘race’
Lockdown Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Paraic Finnerty’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Emily Dickinson’s ‘”Hope” is the thing with feathers.’
Life-Writing for Wellbeing
Dr Alison Habens, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, has written a series of resources on the theory and practice of life-writing for wellbeing.
Lockdown Poetry: Langston Hughes
Elodie Rousselot’s ‘Lockdown Poetry’ selection is ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes.
Lockdown Reading: Tove Jansson
Diane Warren’s lockdown reading choice is a short story by Tove Jansson.
Lockdown Poetry: Charlotte Brontё
Jessica Dyson’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Charlotte Brontё’s ‘Parting.’
Lockdown Poetry: Thomas Hardy
Christopher Pittard’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Thomas Hardy’s ‘In Vision I Roamed.’