Dr Wright talks on Shakespearean actors and their linguistic – and addictive – legacy at St Andrew by the Wardrobe Parish Church, London, on Monday April 25, 2016. This talk forms part of events at the church to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and celebrate his links with the parish. Shakespeare worked close […]

Organised by the Faculty of English and CRASSH, this two-day Colloquium explores ideas of change and exchange – and their implicit interrelation – across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing.  Change and Exchange takes place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, April 29-30 2016. The Convenors for this event are Dr Subha Mukherji, Dr […]

Sarah Wood is at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio on 25 April to introduce a series of films about lost languages. Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. She works mainly with the documentary image to interrogate the relationship between the […]

Dr Wright is a Plenary Speaker at the international symposium Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) April 22-23 2016. In her paper, Urbanisation and house names in London 1700-1900, Dr Wright examines the development of nineteenth century house names and focuses on one in particular, preferred by […]

Professor John Kerrigan lectures on ‘Shakespeare’s Originality’ at Il Nuovo Mondo: Cervantes, Garcilaso L’Inca, Shakespeare, on 22 April 2016.  This event is organised at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, to mark the fourth centenary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes, Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare.

On April 18, the English Faculty hosts Flaws, a graduate and early-career conference exploring ideas of error, disruption, and contamination in English literature after 1750. Dr Adam Kelly, Lecturer at the University of York, will be the keynote speaker.

Dr Phillip Connell’s new book Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. Dr Connell reveals the importance of English […]

On April 15, the English Faculty hosts Discipline and Excess, a graduate and early-career conference exploring boundaries and their transgression in English literature until 1750.  Dr Helen Barr, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, gives the concluding talk.