The outstanding research produced by members of the Faculty has been recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) results, published today (12th May). The REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The Faculty submitted samples of the work of 108 colleagues, at all career stages across […]
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Professor Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam lectures on G. M. Hopkins, Sunday 8th May, St Mary’s Church, Hampstead
The lecture will be given in person but can also be watched by livestream. To book a place and for further details, see: https://www.stmaryshampstead.com/blog/2022/4/14/talk-at-st-marys-hampstead-8-may-4-5pm
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) hosts Club Urania, 28 May
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) will host Club Urania, a performance and music night at Cambridge Junction on 28 May 2022. Performances by Harold Offeh, Symoné, Tammy Reynolds, and Wet Mess, along with a DJ set by Lucia Blayke, co-founder of Trans Pride London. Tickets here: https://www.junction.co.uk/club-urania-may Club Urania is a monthly club night for LGBTQ+ […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate in conversation with author Susan Sellers, Waterstones, 20 May 2022
Dr Trudi Tate will be in conversation with author Susan Sellers about Sellers’ new novel Firebird, a fictional biography of the dancer Lydia Lopokova and her marriage to John Maynard Keynes. The event takes place at Waterstones bookshop, Cambridge, Friday 20 May 2022. Link to further information: https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-susan-sellers/cambridge
Continue ReadingMathelinda Nabugodi talks about ‘The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive’ at the Birkbeck Arts Week, 18 May 2022
Romanticism is best known as a movement celebrating political and imaginative liberty—the human mind freeing itself from the shackles of tradition. But Romanticism also coincided with the apex of the transatlantic slave trade. In this lecture, Mathelinda Nabugodi uncovers some of the links between the poetry of freedom and the practices of slavery in the […]
Continue ReadingDr Chris Townsend publishes ‘George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language’, OUP, May 2022
Dr Chris Townsend’s George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language is published by Oxford University Press on May 5th. It’s a study of the idealist philosopher Berkeley and his impact on the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, offering new readings of each poet in light of their debt to Berkeley’s thought. It’s also an effort […]
Continue ReadingJoe Shaughnessy awarded a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship
Joe Shaughnessy has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship to complete 12 months of research based at the Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town. He will be conducting research related to literary internationalism in southern Africa between 1900 and 1950; this research constitutes the final part of his doctoral project. […]
Continue ReadingDr Chris Townsend publishes ‘Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism’, CUP, May 2022
Dr Chris Townsend’s Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism was published on May 2nd with Cambridge University Press, as part of their Elements series. It takes Mark Akenside’s Pleasures of Imagination as a vital link between Alexander Pope’s poetry and the Romantics. Dr Townsend draws attention in particular to Akenside’s focus on appearances and how […]
Continue ReadingDr Stephen Turton and Professor Charlotte Brewer curate ‘The “Oxford English Dictionary” and the Public’, an exhibition at Oxford’s Weston Library
Dr Stephen Turton, along with Prof Charlotte Brewer (Oxford), has curated a small exhibition on ‘The Oxford English Dictionary and the Public’ at Oxford’s Weston Library. In order to create the OED, its first chief editor, James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), wrote and received thousands of letters on the histories of words—so many that the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Pete de Bolla elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Pete de Bolla has been elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Link to further information: https://www.amacad.org/news/2022-member-announcement
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