“The T. S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to central London all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. It is hosted by the Institute of English Studies of the University of London, which facilitates study and research across the field of English Studies.
The Summer School brings together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and Modern Literature. In recent years it has featured lecturers and poets such as: Simon Armitage, Jewel Spears Brooker, Robert Crawford, Denis Donoghue, Mark Ford, Lyndall Gordon, John Haffenden, Barbara Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Alan Jenkins, Hermione Lee, Gail McDonald, Paul Muldoon, Craig Raine, Robin Robertson and Sir Tom Stoppard.
This year’s T. S. Eliot International Summer School features a lecture by Dame Hermione Lee on Eliot and Tom Stoppard, a reading by Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and an opening address by Colm Tóibín.
Further details can be found on our website: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/eliot.
The Institute has an established interest in Modernist literature, the subject of numerous of its conferences and research seminar series, which are open to all, as are its established series of literary readings. It hosts a portfolio of research programmes and provides postgraduate teaching and training in this research environment.” – Dr. Daniel A. Mullins, T. S. Eliot International Summer School Administrator
