Dr Sarah Haggarty joins Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time to discuss Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 23 June and is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Dr Haggarty is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of English, and a Fellow of Queens’ College. She […]
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Headlands – A New Exhibition on the First Floor, Faculty of English, 23 June to 11 July 2016
Headlands – A New Exhibition on the First Floor In 2015 Yvonne Salmon and James Riley travelled through North Cornwall. They went in search of evidence pertaining to two fictional and folkloric events: the filming of the sci-fi drama *The Nightmare Man* (1981) in Port Isaac and the 1645 ‘abduction’ of Ann Jefferies from the […]
Continue ReadingWinner at The Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards
Dr Hazel Wilkinson – Junior Research Fellow in English at Fitzwilliam College – was amongst six winners from across the University of a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. The new awards have been set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Dr Wilkinson received a trophy and a personal cash prize of […]
Continue ReadingDr Hazel Wilkinson Gives a Paper at Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities, 27 June 2016
On 27 June, Dr Hazel Wilkinson gives a paper entitled A Database of Printers’ Ornaments at the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities, an international conference lecture series organised by the University of Göttingen’s Centre for Digital Humanities, with the EU Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. Dr Wilkinson’s paper will include a preview […]
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy Gives Keynote At ‘Visualities – Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’ , Cologne, June 2016
Dr Kasia Boddy gives a Keynote entitled ‘American Girl: The Iconographies of Helen Wills’ at ‘Visualities: Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’. This interdisciplinary conference, devoted to the study and analysis of various types of visual sources from the realm of sports, takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 24-26 June 2016.
Continue ReadingMichael J Sullivan Awarded Gordon Duff Prize In The Arts Of Manuscripts
Michael J. Sullivan, PhD candidate and current Visiting Fellow at Harvard, has been awarded the 2016 Gordon Duff Prize in the Arts of Manuscripts. The prize was awarded for research into the poetry notebooks of Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded by Cambridge University Library for an essay on a subject relating […]
Continue ReadingDr Elizabeth Savage Receives This Year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award
Dr Elizabeth Savage is awarded this year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, is curated and presented by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, 15-18 June 2016
Dr Laura Wright is a Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, taking place at the University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. In 2016, the general theme of Europe’s premier international conference on language in society is Attitudes and Prestige.
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr Awarded Visiting Research Fellowship, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Holly Corfield Carr has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for the year 2016/17 in order to research the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. For more information: https://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/hmi-visiting-research-fellowships/fellowships-archive/201617-fellows
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy Discusses New Don DeLillo Novel, 31 May 2016
On 31 May 2016, 8-9.30 pm (UK time) Dr Kasia Boddy takes part in a twitter chat, #Bookhour, about Zero K, the new Don DeLillo novel. Hosted by US Studies Online, #Bookhour is an open forum twitter discussion between scholars and the public that takes place on the last Tuesday of the month. The title selected for […]
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