The conference, Tragic Forms Across Europe and Beyond, takes place from 2-3 July 2025 at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Dr Wallace gives her Keynote Lecture, entitled ‘Tragic Forms for Global Warming: Hamartia in the Anthropocene’, on Wednesday 2 July.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025/26 (Deadline: 11 Aug 2025)
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic welcome applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The School Research Facilitators will run an online information session for applicants on 16 July 2025, 13:00 to 14:30. Potential applicants are encouraged to register for this event. The Facilitators also have capacity to provide feedback on up to 15 […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan publishes an article in the ‘T.S. Eliot Studies Annual’
The title of the article is Eliot’s “Polish plains” and it is part of ‘The Eliot We Need’ Special Forum of The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching depictions of Poland and East Central Europe in twentieth-century anglophone and Polish literature.
Continue ReadingTeaching Associate in Literary Criticism and Theory [Temporary Cover]
Please follow this link for more information about the post of Teaching Associate in Literary Criticism and Theory [Temporary Cover]. The closing date for applications is midnight (BST) on Sunday 29 June 2025.
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettitt gives a Plenary Lecture at the 2025 INCS Conference
Professor Pettitt gives her Plenary Lecture, entitled ‘Speed, Relay and the Digital Empire’, on Thursday 19 June, at ‘Speed and Acceleration‘, the 2025 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference. INCS takes place in Genoa, Italy, from 18-20 June.
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the power of language to change the world, and ourselves — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
Link to this morning’s broadcast (30 May 2025): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lfdfyw. You can listen to other episodes to which Prof. Hurley has contributed on: beauty, dogs, silence, gratitude, ancestors, creation, relics, fighting, euthanasia, reality, humour, discrimination, service.
Continue ReadingMigrant Forms: Creative Futures (16 June 2025)
Migrant Forms: Creative Futures A symposium, followed by the launch of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, edited by Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams (punctum books, 2025) Cripps Building (Auditorium and Gallery Garden) Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge 16 June, 2025 Advance registration is requested. Please register at the following link by 9 […]
Continue ReadingDr John Colley’s ‘The Coniuracion of Lucius Sergius Catelina: An Early Tudor Translation of Sallust’s “Bellum Catilinae”’ (Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press) scheduled for publication in June 2025
The book is a critical edition of the first ever translation of a Roman history into English, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, and is printed here for the first time. Link to further information about the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-coniuracion-of-lucius-sergius-catelina-9780198976387?cc=gb&lang=en& Link to further information about the Early English Text Society: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/membership.html
Continue ReadingVictoria Baena and Clare Pettitt organise a symposium: ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, June 2025
The symposium will take place on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. This event has been made possible by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant.
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor gives a paper at ‘A Very British Apocalypse: John Wyndham Then and Now’, 7 June 2025
The title of Dr Mellor’s paper is ‘John Wyndham and the Militarised Imagination’. It will consider some of the major works of John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) – as part of a wider reading of what can plausibly be called the militarised imagination […]
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