Dr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award, for her essay, “‘We reason of these things with a later reason’: Plain Sense and the Poetics of Relief in Eliot and Stevens”. The prize is awarded by a committee from the Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, and recognises the best essay […]
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THE BAD TRIP @ HEFFERS, CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday 6 November, 6.30pm
Join James Riley as he presents his new book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties at this special event hosted by Heffers, Cambridge. James will be discussing and reading from the book, there’ll be a Q+A as well as a signing session. Copies of the book will be […]
Continue Reading‘Taking Up Race: Women of Colour on Class, Colonialism and Whiteness in Oxbridge and Beyond’. Monday 11 November 2019, 5pm, LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE: This event is now taking place in room LG18 on the ground floor of the Law Faculty. Five brilliant and accomplished women of colour will be speaking with honesty and clarity about the issues that matter in Cambridge and beyond. In addition to Afua Hirsch, speakers will include: Suhaiymah […]
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson runs a five-week reading group for students at HMP Whitemoor as part of the ‘Learning Together’ initiative
Ross Wilson will be running a five-week reading group for students at HMP Whitemoor, near March, starting on Monday, 28th October. The group will discuss Charlotte Brontë’s last (and greatest) novel, Villette, and is conducted under the auspices of the ‘Learning Together’ initiative, based at the Institute of Criminology. Link to ‘Learning Together’ website .
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson gives a lecture on Shakespeare’s flowers at the Shake festival in Suffolk, 26 October 2019
Bonnie Lander Johnson gives a lecture on Shakespeare’s flowers at the Shake festival in Suffolk. This three day festival organised by Jenny Hall includes lectures and workshops with Lucy Bailey, Dame Harriet Walter and Ian Kerr http://newcut.org/events/entry/9194
Continue ReadingAnna-Maria Hartmann’s ‘English Mythography in its European Context 1500-1650’ wins the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize 2019
Anna-Maria Hartmann, Lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize 2019 for the best book on early modern literature published in the previous year for her monograph English Mythography in its European Context 1500-1650 (OUP). The prize, named in honour of Roland H. Bainton, who was Titus Street […]
Continue ReadingDr James Riley co-edits ‘The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’
Co-edited with Philip Tew and Melanie Seddon and published by Bloomsbury, The 1960s is the latest in the highly regarded ‘Decades’ series, an ongoing set of volumes focusing on each decade of the twentieth century. The 1960s were the “swinging decade”: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new […]
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