Congratulation to Nina Ellis on winning an Editors’ Choice Award in the annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest for ‘The Kingdom of the Shades’, a queer tale of love and loss, about ballet dancers and ghosts wandering around Rome at night. ‘The Kingdom of the Shades’ will be published in the forthcoming Fall Issue of […]
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Dr Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk at the conference ‘Between the Labyrinth and the Way of Light: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius’, September 2021
The title of Dr Mukherji’s talk is “Wandering Mazes”: The Labyrinth as a Knowing Metaphor in Renaissance Culture. Link to conference programme: https://www.flu.cas.cz/images/akce/prednasky_seminare/2021/metaphors_program_A5_net.pdf]
Continue ReadingAre you thinking of applying to @Cambridge_Uni to study English? Registration now open for September Open Days, including course presentation, live Q&A and chat
The next Cambridge Virtual Open Days will take place on 13-26 September 2021. The programme of events for English is as follows: Course presentation and sample lecture (pre-recorded): available 13-26 September Live Q&A webinar: 16 September, 1pm-1.40pm Live chat: 16 September, 2pm-3pm For further information and to sign up to live sessions: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-open-days/programme
Continue ReadingJohn Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prize Winners Announced
Churchill College has announced the winners of the 2021 John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize and Other Prize: Poetry Prize Winner: Talin Tahajian, for her poem ‘New Year Poem’ ‘Other’ Drama Prize Winner: Chakira Alin, for her play ‘Heroes’ ‘Other’ Drama Prize Runner-up: Joe Venable, for his play ‘Rapture’. Talin Tahajian is a Postgraduate […]
Continue ReadingEmma Gomis, Louis Klee and Lewis Todd read at the Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival, Saturday 14 August 2021 @H_B_P_F
Link to festival Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hastings-bookshop-poetry-festival-tickets-162564489765?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Continue ReadingKatherine Dixon (PhD candidate, Faculty of English and St Edmund’s College) selected as an Edinburgh TV Festival 2021 TV PhD Delegate
Katherine Dixon has successfully been selected as one of this year’s 15 TV PhD candidates (a scheme developed by the Edinburgh TV Festival in partnership with the AHRC). Of the 15 TV PhD Delegates, 6 will be chosen to pitch their ideas for a television production based on their research to a panel of commissioners […]
Continue ReadingJoin us at the English Faculty virtual Open Day, today, Friday 9 July: online chat 3-5pm and Q & A webinar 5pm
Link to further information about the open days, including links to the online chat, Q & A webinar and recorded presentations.
Continue ReadingThe recording of ‘From Rhodes to Churchill: Empire, Race and Commemoration’ hosted by the Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar, is now available
‘From Rhodes to Churchill: Empire, Race and Commemoration’ A panel discussion with Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Alex von Tunzelmann and Gary Younge, chaired by Priyamvada Gopal. Hosted by the Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Link to further information and the recording
Continue ReadingAgainst Our Vanishing, a free immersive queer history set in the English coastal town of Rye is now available to download
Created by Dr Diarmuid Hester (College Research Associate, Emmanuel), this free audio trail focuses on Rye’s famous queer residents like writers Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, and EF Benson, and the painter Edward Burra. It weaves the stories of their lives through the cobbled streets of this ancient town and calls for a new history of […]
Continue ReadingTom Zille publishes his first monograph, the first study of Enlightenment translator Christian Felix Weiße, 30 Jun 2021
The title of the monograph is Christian Felix Weiße the Translator. Cultural Transfer and Literary Entrepreneurship in the Enlightenment and it is published by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, an imprint of the University of London Press. Tom Zille trained as a bookseller in Leipzig, and is currently reading for a PhD in Modern […]
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