Faculty of English

We are now accepting abstracts for “O’ you wonder!”: Worldviews in Pre-1750 Literature.  This virtual conference will take place on 17th and 18th April 2021. The early modern period witnessed unique and rapid epistemological expansion, as the world was ‘discovered’, colonised and conceptualised. Literature became a portal by which to experience this ever-expanding world and […]

In a wide-ranging conversation for the “Faith and Imagination” podcast, Dr Hurley speaks with the Director of the Humanities Center at BYU about his recent book, “Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief”. Dr Hurley addresses the question of what poets (and readers) believe poetry can say or do that other […]

Fiona Green joins Thomas Keymer, Juliette Atkinson, Colin Burrow, and Daniel Wakelin as an Editor of the Review of English Studies. RES was founded in 1925 to publish literary-historical research in all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present. Link to the Review of English Studies.

Co-edited by M-C Newbould and W B Gerard, ‘Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey: A Legacy to the World’, is the first essay collection devoted exclusively to A Sentimental Journey and some of Sterne’s ‘lesser-known’ works, such as The Bramine’s Journal.  It partly represents the fruits of a conference organised by Dr Newbould at Jesus College […]

Panellists include Marina Warner, Alice Oswald, Mark Cocker and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski; there will be contributions from a range of other writers and scholars. Registration is open to members of the Ted Hughes Society and its partner associations, and members of Pembroke College. Link to more details of the seminar, and details of how to become […]

Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction  is the first ever volume of essays on Georgette Heyer.  Tom Zille’s chapter is enitled ‘Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel’. Link to further information about ‘Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction’ Link to the Panel recording  (The recording will be released on the day of […]

The title of Trudi Tate’s lecture was To the Lighthouse: The Mother in the Garden. https://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/anglistik/special_lectures/index.html

The Cambridge Festival 2021 The new, interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, which replaces the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, will host an extensive series of free, online events between 26 March and 4 April this year. Link to The Cambridge Festival website: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ Faculty of English Events American English: Dialogues in Dialect Available […]

Link to Professor Lepecki’s essay, ‘Movement in the Pause’: https://contactos.tome.press/movement-in-the-pause/

We are delighted to announce that Meena Venkataramanan has won a Gates Scholarship to come to the Faculty next year to do an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature.  Current Gates Scholars in the Faculty include Thai-Catherine Matthews (who is enrolled in the MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature), Jumana Esau (MPhil in Criticism and Culture) […]