Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Dr John Colley has been shortlisted for the Society for Renaissance Studies 2026 Book Prize. The winner will be announced at a special online event on Friday 18 September 2026. Link to further information: https://rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-prize-shortlist-2026
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Professor Subha Mukherji takes up a Visiting Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
Professor Subha Mukherji takes up a Visiting Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., supported by a Garden and Landscape Studies Research Award, from 1-30 September 2026.
Continue ReadingDr Alice Wickenden co-convenes ‘The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances’, CRASSH, 21 September
Dr Alice Wickenden is co-convening an event with Professor Emma Smith (Oxford) on 21 September 2026. The event is called ‘The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances’ and will bring together a select group of librarians, curators and academics who work with rare book collections to advance questions on difficult provenances, to connect […]
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam on “courage” as the first of the virtues — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p60w8j Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6A3CWM3kM5nrM8xQ8zYl6a?si=d2119d7b8c4544da
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam on holidays as “holy days”, Tolkien and Andy Burnham—broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
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Continue ReadingRuth Abbott gives a keynote lecture at the British Association of Romantic Studies International Conference 2026
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-british-association-for-romantic-studies-international-conference-2026 The keynote lecture, ‘Shared Composition: Writing and Editing in the Wordsworths’ Notebooks’, launches two editions of Wordsworth family notebooks: Ruth Abbott, A Wordsworth Family Notebook: Dove Cottage Manuscript 16 in Facsimile with Transcription and Commentary, 2 vols boxed (Wordsworth Trust, 2026) The Wordsworths’ Notebooks, ed. Ruth Abbott (Cambridge University Digital Library, 2026), https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/wordsworth An […]
Continue ReadingSymposium: For Lancelot Andrewes, 1626 – 1926 – 2026
Symposium: For Lancelot Andrewes, 1626 – 1926 – 2026 23-24 September, English Faculty (9 West Road) and Pembroke College A two-day gathering to discuss the work of Lancelot Andrewes on his quatercentenary; and the critical and creative legacy of the essay T. S. Eliot wrote for the tricentenary. Keynotes: Peter McCullough (Oxford) and Jeff Dolven […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate organises ‘Woolf and the Natural World’, 2-7 August 2026
Dr Trudi Tate (Emeritus Fellow, Clare Hall), is organising the annual Virginia Woolf Summer Course for Literature Cambridge. The theme is Woolf and the Natural World, with lectures, classes, talks, visits, and much else over five days in August.
Continue ReadingProfessor Sarah Dillon publishes study of Alan Turing’s autofictional short story ‘Pryce’s Buoy’
‘Pryce’s Buoy’, a six-page, scruffily hand-written fragment of a short story cared for by archivists at King’s College Cambridge has been transcribed and fully studied for the first time. Professor Sarah Dillon’s findings, published today in The Review of English Studies, call for a reassessment of Turing’s character. “We’ve distilled a version of Turing that […]
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