Cambridge Saffron: Stories, Images, Recipes Panel talk with Kasia Boddy, Bonnie Lander Johnson and Alice Wickenden Wednesday 6 April, 6pm-7.30pm Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge To book, go to https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ A mask must be worn throughout the lecture. The lecture will also be live streamed. Register at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rfuuqqDIpEtZiwENpfTtXpuburudb0Wqv
Continue ReadingInvitation to ‘The Arab Left Journal: Pedagogies in the Classroom and Beyond’, website launch and roundtable discussion, 4 March 2022
We would like to invite you to a roundtable on periodicals of the Arab left and decolonization from the 1950s to the 1980s with scholars Idriss Jebari, Zeina Maasri, Mezna Qato and Hana Morgenstern. A discussion on the critical role of Arab left journals in social, literary and cultural movements, as well as related […]
Continue ReadingPhilip Knox’s ‘The “Romance of the Rose” and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature’ is published with OUP
Philip Knox’s new book has been published in the new Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture series at OUP. The book looks again at fourteenth-century literary history from the perspective of a single text, the thirteenth-century French love allegory and medieval ‘bestseller’, the Romance of the Rose, and thinks about Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Sarah Dillon in conversation with Jeanette Winterson
On 23rd March, as part of 2022’s AI UK event, the UK’s national showcase of artificial intelligence and data science research and collaboration, hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, Professor Sarah Dillon will be in conversation with contemporary writer Jeanette Winterson. They will explore Winterson’s new work, 12 Bytes: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way […]
Continue Reading‘On Style in Victorian Fiction’, edited by Daniel Tyler, is published by Cambridge University Press
This collection provides a major assessment of style in Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style – the language, techniques and artistry of prose – is inseparable from meaning and that it is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. On Style in Victorian Fiction includes chapters by […]
Continue ReadingMeena Venkataramanan (Pembroke College) selected for The Washington Post’s summer reporting internship, 2022
Link to The Post’s announcement of its 2022 Summer Intern Class: https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/02/11/post-announces-2022-summer-intern-class/ Meena Venkataramanan is an M.Phil. candidate in English Studies and a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge.
Continue ReadingMadeleine Pulman-Jones, winner of this year’s Harper-Wood Award at St John’s College, reads from some of her recent work, Thursday 3 March, 5.15pm
Harper-Wood Literary Reading: Madeleine Pulman-Jones introduced and chaired by Sasha Dugdale Thursday 3rd March, 5.15 – 6.30 PM Wordsworth Room, St John’s College. Madeleine Pulman-Jones, winner of this year’s Harper-Wood Award at St John’s College, will read from some of her recent work. Her poems have appeared in publications including PN Review, Poetry Birmingham and Adroit Journal, where […]
Continue ReadingMathelinda Nabugodi wins the 2022 ‘Publications of the English Goethe Society’ Prize
Mathelinda Nabugodi has been awarded the English Goethe Society’s 2022 Publications of the English Goethe Society Prize for an outstanding article published in the journal in the previous year. The award is for the article ‘The Contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Faust Translations’, which appeared in PEGS 90.1 (2021), pp. 31–52 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887593). The judges write […]
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