Research Events and Activities
A space for everyone in English - staff, postgraduates and postdocs -
to come together and talk about all aspects of research in English Studies
In addition to the numerous readings, interviews and events put on by the Seamus Heaney Centre, the English research area runs a successful and long-standing Research Seminar Series, giving staff and post-graduate students the chance to present their work and listen to invited contributions by leading scholars from Ireland, the UK and across the world.
The English Research Seminar
Meeting fortnightly throughout semester to discuss all aspects of English Studies
Wednesday, 4pm, McMordie Room, Music.
Schedule of Meetings, Semester ONE 2025-26
Schedule of Meetings, Semester TWO 2025-26
Coffee and tea on arrival; wine reception afterwards
Organised by CDRG Lead, Prof. Ramona Wray (r.wray@qub.ac.uk)
English at Queen’s hosts numerous conferences throughout the academic year, from large international gatherings like the British Shakespeare Association conference in 2018 to smaller themed symposia typically organised by post-graduate and post-doctoral students.
Since late 2018, staff, post-doctoral and post-graduate students in English have organised an exciting roster of conferences and symposia on the following subjects: the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference; Finished and Under Construction: Irish Poetry after 1998; Science and Medicine in the Insular Middle Ages; Michael Longley in Context: A Symposium; Women and Indian Shakespeares Conference; God After God: A Symposium on Contemporary American Writing and Theology; and Masculinity Crisis in the Americas.
Our post-graduate students also put on a long-running and successful annual conference entitled Common Grounds to showcase the very best of academic scholarship by post-graduate students from QUB and the rest of the UK and Ireland.
Archive: Common Ground 2019 programme Common Ground 2018 Programme