Literature

Their emphasis on cultivating understanding makes universities natural homes for those at war with their societies, says Shahidha Bari

Charlotte Jones is fascinated by an ‘experiment’ that ‘reconstructs the act of remembrance’ and brings its subjects back to life

Book of the week: A study marries passion and wit as it takes on the enemies of the canon, says Gary Day

Book of the week: Will we swallow a radical take on a Shakespearean tragedy served with edibles? asks Peter J. Smith

Matthew Reisz meets the scholars for whom one discipline is not enough

How did mushrooming cities influence verse and vice versa? Shahidha Bari on a bold study

Traditional literary approaches meet the latest stylometric analysis in determining who wrote the Bard’s plays

The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature

Exclusion from male-dominated society fuelled female authors’ creativity, says Gail Marshall

Do you recognise seven stereotypes in literature and film? Richard Joyner appraises a study ranging from Sherlock to Frankenstein

Academic disputes can be acrimonious and unedifying, but victory is always sweet, says Shahidha Bari

University and College Union warns Russell Group institution will struggle to raise teaching quality while cutting jobs

Yeats, Shaw and O’Casey star in a study crammed with reinterpretations, says Marilynn Richtarik

Jeffrey Meyers longs for more of the unfamiliar in a portrait of the author’s final chapter

Book of the week: The reality of the present world has fallen short of science fiction’s predictions, says Jon Turney

Efforts by granddaughter of William Carlos Williams to persuade the Nobel Foundation to acknowledge the US poet could open door for other disciplines

Matthew Reisz celebrates the scholars engaging with film, personal experience, the creative arts and even jokes

Subscription models and self-publishing present ways for scholars to bring their work to the public

Rich and strange, detective tales of the 1920s and 1930s are worth unearthing, says Leo Mellor

The necessity of regular publication curbs the freedom that can make scholarly work original and important, says Shahidha Bari

Book of the week: Shahidha Bari enjoys a study of how tuberculosis influenced notions of attractiveness and breeding

The discomforts felt and described by five writers form the focus of this literary study, writes Lennard Davis

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

Academic whose writing fused law and literature remembered

Book of the week: Great writing can enlighten and encourage dialogue between disciplines, says Gary Morson

To properly appreciate a work of art we must judge it, not simply adhere to the modern paradigm of explaining it in context, contends Gary Day

Bibliophiles in the 1700s liked soundbites and sharing. Are we so different, asks Valerie Sanders

Catherine Clinton enters the beguiling lost world of a complex literary figure and seeker of truth

At 1967’s Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, radicals preached Black Power, existential psychiatry, free universities and more. Martin Levy reports on an event that was as much a happening as an academic conference

We talk race, taking advice from Seamus Heaney and poetry’s vital place in society with the US’s next Poet Laureate

An actor’s eye and ear brings fresh insight to aspects of the Bard’s works, says Lisa Hopkins

Shahidha Bari follows the historical trail to see how the author of Pride and Prejudice became the celebrity figure we know today

Two summers, on the beaches of Greece and in the libraries of New York, define what the “long vac” meant to John Sutherland

Hotly anticipated figures on salaries show that for subjects such as economics and law, the university attended has stronger link to high earnings

Book of the week: The art of coaxing meaning from literature is the legacy of one great critic, says Robert Eaglestone

Number of bachelor's degrees awarded in field down 5 per cent year-on-year

Academic who prized French popular and high culture is remembered

Vice-chancellor believes international scholars can be tempted away from the golden triangle and to the North of England

Art, business and politics – the story of a disruptive publisher is far from dry, says Robert Eaglestone

What use is the Bard? In politics or life, what you do with his plays is up to you, finds Peter J. Smith

Willy Maley revisits Milton’s epic poem with a brilliant study that fully engages the senses

Academics shine light on contemporary research themes in classic book

A whistle-stop tour of criminals’ texts is packed with listicles and promises, says Sharon Wheeler

Women have long been commentators on global affairs but their messages aren’t necessarily getting through, writes Elizabeth Cobbs

Long-serving Stanford University scholar remembered

Former Smith College president set to succeed Nicholas Dirks

The comics researcher discusses ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree accusations, lessons on wartime alliances and the perils of eating cheese before bedtime

Laura Frost wonders if an ambitious author’s tales of erotic adventure were sexed up by others

Shahidha Bari on a rich account of all the voices that shaped and reshaped the Arabian Nights

New academic partnership to build on the country’s deeper ‘engagement with world literature’

Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain

Formation of British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies follows ‘explosion’ of teaching and research

Matthew Reisz on when the worlds of higher education and graphic novels collide

Book of the week: The scrutiny to which two intellectuals submit their relationship fascinates Shahidha Bari

Ellie Bothwell hears from students at the THE BRICS & Emerging Economies Universities Summit in Johannesburg

A leading scholar who brought his deep knowledge of Chinese literature with him to the US – and then back to China and Taiwan – has died

Shelley King is happy to linger over an erudite, witty and intimate journey through Wonderland

Jon Marcus reports from Saskatoon in Saskatchewan on how an academic is using the country’s favourite sport to teach his students

Shahidha Bari on an idiosyncratic and tantalising inward-looking exercise in soulful diary-keeping

French cartoonist finds rich comic potential in the PhD she never finished