UQ President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj with Rhodes Scholarship recipient Damian Maher.

A passion for bringing English literature to the public has led to a Rhodes Scholarship for University of Queensland (UQ) student Damian Maher.

1 December 2017
Pinckney Marcius-Simons (USA, 1867-1909); watercolour illustrations painted onto the pages of an 1886 French edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, translated by Paul Meurice. 1908. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Four-hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, The University of Queensland will host a series of events in 2016 celebrating the poet’s life and times.

11 April 2016
Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellow Professor Peter Holbrook.

The University of Queensland’s Professor Peter Holbrook is among 28 new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

25 November 2013

Australia’s biggest-ever humanities research grant will lead to a number of new postdoctoral research fellowships and PhD “top-up” scholarships at UQ, says Professor Peter Holbrook.

23 November 2010

The University of Queensland will lead two new Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence which have been awarded $36.4 million today to position Australia internationally in quantum technologies and to help solve environmental management...

16 July 2010

Fans of the great poet John Milton will gather from far and wide at the University of Queensland later this month to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth.

4 August 2008

An American scholar noted for transporting Shakespeare into the digital age is the first to take a special visiting professor’s chair at The University of Queensland (UQ).

23 June 2006

This is a transcript of a eulogy delivered today at St John`s College Chapel, St Lucia by UQ Executive Dean of the Arts Faculty Associate Professor Richard Fotheringham for Associate Professor Lloyd Davis, of the School of English, Media Studies and...

11 August 2005

The University of Queensland announced the 2001 winners of its teaching excellence and research supervision awards at a ceremony at Customs House in Brisbane last night.

23 November 2001

The recent hostile intellectual atmosphere towards William Shakespeare will be examined in a free University of Queensland public lecture on Thursday, October 4.

27 September 2001