Watch our new 5-minute film with Dr Erin Goeres UCL SELCS/CMII! 📽️📽️1066: Conquest, Conflict and Loss 📽️📽️ Why is this year so important in the English imagination? Produced by Graham Riach with the EI's Claudia Sternberg. bit.ly/3aaahaM

A film I made with Erin Goeres about 1066! 'While modern political discourse often exploits the idea of 1066 as a struggle between England and Europe [...] this oversimplification ignores the complexities of the medieval period.' UCL European Institute UCL SELCS/CMII youtu.be/QQF_czPXFH4

Thrilled to be sharing a stage with Graham Riach to talk about a short film we've made about the #BlackBritish music hall performer Josephine #Morcashani. If you're in London on 21 June, come by UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social at 4pm. Part of UCL Music Futures: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

📽️Watch our new short film! 15 mins on life under Putin, historical v operative truth - and directing, performing and seeing "The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko" Thanks to Wasfi Kani Grange Park Opera for letting us use your recording. youtube.com/watch?v=rD-IOp…

A really interesting piece about Brian Dillon which thinks about the work of style.

Now available - The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature, by Graham K. Riach Graham Riach UvA Amsterdam, is the first major study of the contemporary South African short story. bit.ly/gkriach #SouthAfricanLiterature #ShortStory

A great piece with Willy Maley, whose influence on me was huge - a model of intellectual curiosity and of how those with more institutional power can use it to help those who have less.

'the ball of rock' Second Mentions theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

🎥 Performance & critique through film 5 June, 6:30 - 8 Join us for an evening of film screenings Jeff Bowersox, Candace Scarborough, Graham Riach, Helen McDonald, Jane Kingsley-Smith & @DuncanSalkeld ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

Some highlights from last nights panel: Performance & critique through film 🎥 Screenings of Candace Scarboroughs blak mistrys, UCL-produced Hearing Ghosts: The Life and Times of Josephine Morcashani & performance by Helen McDonald Thank you all! ✨

"Hearing Ghosts: The Life & Times of Josephine Morcashani": Very pleased to share a film by Graham Riach in collaboration with Claudia Sternberg at UCL European Institute. Features me & singer Helen McDonald talking about an incredible Black British performer. ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

Our new collaboration with filmmaker Graham Riach explores the life of Josephine Morcashani (1870-1929), a Black British music hall star. The film was created in collaboration with Jeff Bowersox and UCL European Institute's Claudia Sternberg. Watch the full video now: ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

Honorable mention goes to Chloé Ashbridge for "Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution" (Routledge 23) & to Graham Riach for "The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool UP 23) 👏

Congratulations to Graham Riach on receiving an honorable mention for the 2023 BACLS Monograph Prize! 🎉 Buy 'The Short Story after Apartheid' now with 50% off RRP on our website with the code 27SUMMER: bit.ly/gkriach

Lovely to hear what English Association monograph series author Graham Riach says about publishing in the English at the Interface series with Liverpool University Press liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

Cinnamon Buns: 'these fragrant, springy coils' theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/… Second Mentions

'the sensitive, duck-billed, beaverish animals' (Platypuses/Platypi/Platypodes) Second Mentions theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…