Ross Wilson will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Walter Benjamin’s Power of Judging’ for the Center of Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, 17th February. Further details here: https://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2026/2/17/ross-wilson-benjamins-power-of-judging
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Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s filmmaking
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of postcolonial studies. The essay explores how Dangarembga’s documentary film, Elephant People, depicts community-based wildlife conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Read the essay here.
Continue ReadingProfessor Alex Houen publishes an essay in C21’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s ‘Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age’
Professor Alex Houen has published an essay in C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writing. The title of the essay is ‘Free Indirect Thought Felt and Lived’ and it is one of multiple collated responses to Timothy Bewes’s book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022). Link to journal and essay: https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/25944/
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Free Thinking’ discussing labour, productivity and reproduction
Dr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, discussing labour, productivity and reproduction. Broadcast on Friday 30 January 2026, you can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh2x
Continue ReadingAudrey Chan publishes ‘Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia’, Bloomsbury Press, December 2025
Audrey Chan is the co-author, with Jack Pun, of ‘Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in the Chinese Context’, published by Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare, December 2025. Link to further details: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring-clinical-communication-in-asia-9781350298118/) Funding: Jim & Nancy Hinkle Student Travel Grants awarded by the Hemingway Society.
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives a Distinguished Visiting Lecture at the University of Hong Kong, February 2026
Professor Anthony Bale will talk on ‘Conflict, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West’ on Thursday 5 February as part of the University of Hong Kong’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26. During this visit to the University of Hong Kong’s School of English, Professor Bale will also lead a Workshop on ‘The […]
Continue ReadingStudying English at Cambridge: in-person lectures and an information session for prospective students, Saturday 14 February
Studying English at Cambridge: in-person lectures designed to give prospective students an insight into our English Literature course as well as an information session. The Faculty of English is holding an in-person study morning on Saturday 14th February 2026. The event is aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English […]
Continue ReadingTimothy Glover’s manuscript discovery featured in the Telegraph
Timothy Glover published a journal article in Mediaeval Studies, demonstrating that a manuscript in Shrewsbury School contains the only surviving original version of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae: i.e. the most popular work by the most disseminated late-medieval English writer. All other 120 surviving copies and all editions in print are now shown to be an abridgement […]
Continue ReadingTo celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years of ‘In Our Time’, five well-known fans chose their favourite episodes, and Dr Fiona Green features in one!
Comedian Frank Skinner chose the episode on the life and work of the poet Emily Dickinson. Link to listen to the episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08p5lbp This ‘In Our Time’ episode was first broadcast in May 2017.
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