In the five-book shortlist for University English's Outstanding First Manuscript Prize, no fewer than three members of the Bristol English Department have been selected for their publications in 2022: Dr Natalie Ferris's Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1845-1980, Dr Noreen Masud's Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language, and Dr Doug Battersby (previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Bristol)'s Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form. 

You can read the judges' comments at the University English website, where Dr Ferris's work is praised for its 'brilliant analysis [...] fine-grained research', Dr Masud's work as 'highly original [...] excellent rigour', and Dr Battersby for his 'Impressively clear-sighted and precise [...] method'.