Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture 2025

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing is delighted to announce that this year's Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Helen Small, the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford. Professor Small works at the intersection of literature, intellectual history and philosophy and this lecture will look to clarify ‘what sort of critical break with the past’ may be occurring (to borrow a helpful formulation from Stuart Hall), and where and why the shifts and tendencies remain highly uneven.