Poetry Reading at Churchill College, Saturday 27 January, 5.15pm, hosted by Bhanu Kapil, with readings by Sandeep Parmar and Anthony Anaxagorou, introduced by Lauryn Anderson and Jigisha Bhattacharya

Poetry Reading at Churchill College Sandeep Parmar and Anthony Anaxagorou: 5.15pm on Saturday, January 27th  Lauryn Anderson and Jigisha Bhattacharya will be introducing the poets. Please arrive at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start in the Bevin Room. The event will last an hour. Wine/soft drinks/nibbles to follow! Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at […]

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Faculty of English Outreach Activity, Michaelmas Term 2023

This term the Faculty has run 2 online outreach lectures to give Year 12 students the opportunity to find out more about the course and what it is like to study at Cambridge. The first saw over 130 students listen to Prof Drew Milne give an introduction to Practical Criticism followed by a session on […]

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PhD student Justine Provino participates in an episode of ‘The Digital Human’ on BBC radio 4 (6 November 2023/podcast available on BBC sounds)

Justine Provino participated in an episode of the Digital Human programme on BBC radio 4. The 30-minute episode was aired on Monday 6 November at 4:30pm and is now available on BBC sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001s55r Presented by Aleks Krotoski and titled ‘Permanence’, this Digital Human’s episode features the self-destructive book Agrippa (A Book of The Dead) as the narrative thread […]

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William Holbrook and Jeremy George convene the 2-day conference Antipodean Modernism Today (17/18 November 2023)

Over the 17th and 18th of November 2023, William Holbrook (a PhD candidate at Trinity College, Cambridge) and Jeremy George (a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne) are convening ‘Antipodean Modernism Today’, an international, in-person conference in the Cambridge Faculty of English. The event will feature keynote addresses from Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of […]

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