English and American Studies FF KU

The Magna Charta Observatory is pleased to announce that the 2026 Student Essay Competition is now officially open.

This year’s theme is:

The Humanities and How They Influence Access to and the Experience of Higher Education

Students from universities around the world are invited to reflect on how the humanities shape access to higher education, belonging, academic development, and personal growth.

All information relating to the competition — including participation guidelines, submission details, and the webinar recording — is now available here:

👉 https://events.magna-charta.org/competitions/2026-mco-student-essay-competition

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Whitsunday

Would you eat this British breakfast? 🍳🥓

Tell us what you would put on (and leave off) your plate!

Prequels

Gabriella Reuss's online lecture at Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University

On 22 April 2026, Gabriella Reuss held an online guest lecture titled "Internal colonialism and wolfish speech: staging King Lear in the 2010s in Hungary" in front of students and professors of the Faculty of Foreign Philology, Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University, Ukraine.

More: https://www.ku.sk/fakulty-katolickej-univerzity/filozoficka-fakulta/katedry/katedra-anglickeho-jazyka-a-literatury/aktuality/gabriella-reuss-s-online-lecture-at-kamianets-podilskyi-ivan-ohiienko-national-university.html

Guest researcher from Murcia, Spain, at our Department

Jose María Pasquín Martínez spends a month-long research stay at the Department of English Language and Literature.

More: https://www.ku.sk/fakulty-katolickej-univerzity/filozoficka-fakulta/katedry/katedra-anglickeho-jazyka-a-literatury/aktuality/guest-researcher-from-murcia-spain-at-our-department.html

Following on from that last post, this is called ‘William Wordsearch’.

If you enjoy puzzles, you can find all the words from the first stanza of ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ in it.

Happy Easter!
(c) BBK