The University English Spring Conference and AGM at Oxford Brookes University awarded Dr Noreen Masud's monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (OUP, 2022) the Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, adding to its previous recognition as co-winner of the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. 

Bristol English made a strong showing in the UE Book Prize shortlist of five this year, with Hard Language joined by Natalie Ferris's Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980 (OUP, 2022) and Doug Battersby's Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, feeling and the novel form (OUP, 2022). You can read more about the shortlist and the UE Book Prize here.

You can find more information on Dr Masud and her teaching here.