Dr Edward Wilson-Lee Publishes New book: Shakespeare in Swahililand

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins.  The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March.  Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]

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MLA Prize for Catherine Phillips for Hopkins Letters

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it will award the thirteenth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.  The winning edition is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volumes 1 and 2: Correspondence, edited by R. K. R. Thornton, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Catherine Phillips, […]

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The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice

Drs Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy publish a new edited collection of essays looking at the legacy of the First World War through the lens of the creative arts. As a specialist in the literature of conflict, Dr Tate explores the ways in which writers expressed the impact of trauma on families – and child rearing […]

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