Laura (Laurie) Shelly, a former undergraduate student of English at UCC, has been awarded the Judith E. Wilson MPhil Studentship by Christ’s College, Cambridge and Cambridge’s Faculty of English. This scholarship will fully fund an MPhil in English Studies. The School of English and Digital Humanities congratulates Laurie on this great achievement and wishes her every success in her future endeavours.

We are delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Alan Gibbs has co-edited the latest edition of the journal, Studies in American Naturalism (University of Nebraska Press), with Dr Sarah McCreedy, formerly a PhD student in the Department. The special issue, entitled ‘American Literary Naturalism and the Visual’ draws on papers delivered at a symposium in UCC last October, and comprises articles on a number of examples of visual media. These include TV series True Detective, the video game The Last of Us, and Joel Coen’s recent film adaptation of Macbeth.

Congratulations to the editorial team of Double Space, who have just launched the journal's second issue.