Interview with a Linguist Dr Laura Wright interviews Professor Louise Sylvester in the May issue (no. 19) of Babel magazine (a linguistics magazine aimed at the general public). http://www.babelzine.com/2016-09-21-12-15-29/issue-guide.html  

PEPYS THE MUSICIAN Dr Jane Hughes and Professor Christopher Page contribute to an investigation of the seventeenth-century diarist, Samuel Pepys, and his deep passion for music in a Radio 4 programme partly recorded in Magdalene College, Pepys Library, and focusing on Pepys’s private composer, Cesare Morelli. It is available on iplayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y8

Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded the E M Forster Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award will be made in New York on May 17th. http://artsandletters.org/about/ E M Forster (Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy) bequeathed the American publication rights and royalties of his posthumous novel Maurice to […]

Dr Laura Wright is to give a talk entitled ‘Language in Motion’ at the opening night of the London Transport Museum’s new exhibtion, Sounds of the City, on Friday 19 May.  In her talk, Dr Wright will consider the entirely unintended knock-on linguistic effect of the railway boom in the 1840s. https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events-calendar/friday-lates

Ananya Mishra, a Graduate Student in the Faculty of English, has been awarded a Scholarship by the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT): http://www.wallace-trusts.org.uk/cwt_india.html   The CWIT Scholarship is awarded to outstanding scholars whose research proposals are both exciting and ground-breaking.

An article by Dr Joe Moshenska has won the Louis Round Wilson Prize from the journal Studies in Philology, given annually for the best essay that they publish in the previous year.

Christopher Page’s recent book The Guitar in Tudor England (CUP, 2015) has been awarded the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize given annually by the American Musical Instrument Society for the best book in English in furtherance of the Society’s purpose: to promote the understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures […]

Reading Across Time: Literature as Metaphysical Insurrection A Public Reading & Discussion with acclaimed Iranian-American author Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi The author will read from her latest work as well as her upcoming novel, Call Me Zebra, followed by a discussion on literature, exile and revolt. Q & A will follow. Wine and juice will be served. WEDNESDAY, May 10th, […]

  Dr Sophie Seita teaches a Masterclass at the University of Oxford on ‘Procedure, Appropriation, Experimental Translation’ on 4 May 2017: http://www.oxforduniversitypoetrysociety.com/#termcard

Dr Joe Moshenska joins fellow New Generation Thinker Islam Issa, Professor John Carey and presenter Philip Dodd to discuss Milton’s poem, the first version of which was published in 1667. The discussion explores the influence of Protestant thinking, the Reformation and the Renaissance on Milton’s depiction of religious and political beliefs as part of Radio […]