Bhanu Kapil | Incubation: A Space For Monsters Tuesday, April 25th 2023 7pm-10pm For the launch of Bhanu Kapil’s Incubation: a space for monsters, Prototype presents readings and performances from Bhanu Kapil & Blue Pieta (featuring musicians/performers Yasmin Rai & Nina Harries), Sarona Abuaker, Sandeep Parmar, Azad Ashim Sharma and Stephanie Sy-Quia. Link to further […]

Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired a discussion with Booker-Prize winner Eleanor Catton at the Cambridge Literary Festival. They discussed Catton’s most recent eco-thriller, Birnam Wood and the politics of land ownership, conservation and big tech.

300 school children aged 11-18 came to Cambridge for a day of writing with YA author, Manjeet Mann and Downing Fellow in English, Bonnie Lander Johnson. Students were given a college tour, an introduction to English at Cambridge, and an opportunity to read their work from the big stage. Quentin Blake (English and Downing alum) […]

Ted Tregear’s first book, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593–1603, is published by Oxford University Press in April 2023. Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare’s works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his […]

Philip Knox has been shortlisted for a Cambridge SU Student-Led Teaching Award in the category ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’. Link to further information about the Student-Led Teaching Awards: https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/ourpriorities/education/student-ledteachingawards/

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation’, edited by James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, with one of the chapters written by Caroline Bassett. Nathaniel Zetter is a College Teaching Associate in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the […]

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: the making of the Mediterranean’ has received critical acclaim, thanks in part to the resources funded by Cambridge Digital Humanities. CDH provided a Digitisation Award to bring archival material –  notebooks, plans, and photographs that document archaeology at Knossos from the 1930s to the 1950s – from the British School at […]

The Cambridge University Herbarium is one of the most diverse and historic natural sciences collections held by the University of Cambridge. Professor Boddy was one of a panel of experts from the arts and sciences contributing to a series of talks, presentations and discussions with audience participation that aimed to bring the diverse histories embodied […]

Louise Joy and Jessica Lim publish Women’s Literary Education, 1690–1850 (Edinburgh University Press), an edited volume containing essays by English faculty colleagues including Jennifer Wallace, Rebecca Anne Barr and Jonathan Padley. The book brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and significant ways in which female literary artists […]

In passus B.XVI, the narrator of Piers Plowman is shown an allegorical tree to teach him what ‘charite is to mene’, yet despite the ‘Tree of Charity’ label which follows this passage in critical literature, in the B-text Langland never actually calls the tree itself ‘charity’ but rather ‘patience’. Conor McKee’s article looks at the […]