Registration open for ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’

Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital Venue: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Date: Saturday, 27th May, 2017 The relationship between the media of writing and the human body has been fraught with affective potentials. This one-day conference aims to examine this relationship between the materiality of texts and the materiality of bodies by bringing together researchers from […]

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Faculty of English Graduate Conference, 13th May 2017

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND Trying things out in America: Literature, Culture, and Criticism Faculty of English Graduate Conference,  13th May 2017  from 9.15am PLENARY: CATHERINE GANDER (QUEENS BELFAST) ‘Between no longer and not yet there’s still life’: art and time in Don DeLillo’s late fiction    

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CUSU student-led teaching awards, May 9th

It was another strong year for the faculty at the CUSU student-led teaching awards with recognition (from over 600 nominations) for: Priya Gopal, Stacey McDowell, Louise Joy, Hero Chalmers, Chris Burlinson and Helen Thaventhiran.

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Dr Sophie Seita publishes ‘Lodging & Dislodging the Little Magazine: A Google Document Conversation in Fifteen Parts’

In conversation with the scholar and writer Danny Snelson, Sophie Seita discusses the values, histories, present-tense promises, and various metaphoric, material, and digital futures of little magazines. Online here: http://partisanhotel.co.uk/Sophie-Seita-Danny-Snelson The piece was also reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/04/the-little-magazine-in-the-present-tense-sophie-seita-danny-snelson-in-conversation/

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Dr Sophie Seita awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant

Dr Sophie Seita was awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (£1500) for the development of My Little Enlightenment Plays—a project that blends academic research, performance, and publication. Its aim is to present innovative performance research in innovative formats to an academic and non-academic audience. The project explores forms of collaboration and experiment in contemporary avant-garde […]

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