Exhibitions at UB English Literature and Linguistics
Current Exhibition
Anglophone India
16th October - 15th December
We present both linguistic titles on Indian English as well as primary and secondary titles on Indian literature written in English.
Previous Exhibitions
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Kenyan Writer
From 15th July 2025 - 2nd October 2025
The exhibition features the influential Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - novelist, playwright, essayist, and scholar - who challenged colonialism and defended African cultures.
May 8th: Two exhibitions in one
8th May 2025 - 15th July 2025
Commemoration Day of Julian of Norwich (1343 - after 1416)
Texts written by and about the mystic and anchoress
Victory in Europe Day
Literature from and about WWII
"This is my letter to the world": ES students respond to Emily Dickinson's manuscripts
28th March 2025 - 8th May 2025
This exhibition showcases ES students' textual art work.
Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1700 poems. Only 10 of these were printed during her lifetime - in all likelihood without her permission. Dickinson wrote and preserved her poetry in manuscripts: In hand-bound books called fascicles, in letters to her family and friends, and in hybrid visual and textual compositions using the folded planes of repurposed envelopes. After studying these envelope-writings over the course of a semester, nine ES students were asked to respond in kind. Their only requirement: that their texts reimagine Dickinson’s defiance of 19th-century print technology for today’s digital culture.
The Life and Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
12th December 2024 - 27th March 2025
This exhibition was curated by Ren Schnüriger, who did the first special module "library internship" with us. Ren also designed the website accompanying the exhibition.
H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
17th October - 11th December 2024
Edna O'Brien
August - October 2024
This exhibition commemorates the Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short-stroy writer Edna O'Brien (*1930), who died on 27th July 2024.
Download the list of exhibition titles on Edna O'Brien (XLSX, 20 KB).
Women and Crime Fiction
June - July 2024
Download the list of exhibition titles on Women and Crime fiction (XLSX, 21 KB).
This exhibition accompanies the Women and Crime Fiction Workshop (JPG, 700 KB).
Paul Auster and Alice Munroe
May 2024
List of exhibition titles on Paul Auster (XLSX, 24 KB).
List of exhibition titles on Alice Munroe (XLSX, 23 KB).
Witches
December 2023 - May 2024
Download the list of exhibition titles on Witches (XLSX, 26 KB).
Graphic Novels and Graphic Adaptations
FS 2023
Banned Books in the US
HS 2022