About This Event

he Annual T.S. Eliot Lecture 2026 will be delivered by Aakanksha Virkar. Her lecture is titled ‘T.S. Eliot, Coriolan, and the Rise of Fascism in the 1930s’. Aakanksha Virkar is Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, London, and Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Brighton. In 2026 she was made an honorary Fellow of the English Association. She was also recently awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project T.S.Eliot and Beethoven: Aesthetics, Music and Politics 1870-1945. Admission is free and open to all, but registration is required

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