Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has recently published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities that explores the roles animals play within the technologies for and stories about human reproduction. The essay, co-written with Georgia Walton (Lancaster University), ‘Reproductive Technology’s Animal Unconscious: Multispecies Motherhood and Humanimal Horror’, is available to read online here.
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Dr Mina Gorji lectures at ICI Berlin on ‘Poetics of Scale’, 29 September 2025
The talk drew on Dr Gorji’s practice as a poet and literary critic to explore the affordances of lyric to move between multiple scales of perception, experience, and time. Link to further information about the talk: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/mina-gorji/
Continue ReadingCambridge Group for Irish Studies: Dr Mark Wormald in conversation with the editors of ‘The Poems of Seamus Heaney’ (Faber & Faber, 2025), Chaired by Dr Josie O’Donoghue, Tuesday 28 October
The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies will welcome in-person and remotely the editors of the forthcoming Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2025), on Tuesday 28th October at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan and Matthew Hollis will be in conversation with Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke College) about […]
Continue Reading‘See You Through’ a poem-novel co-written by Professor Alex Houen: Book Launch and Reading at Pembroke College on 23rd October
Prof. Alex Houen has co-written with Prof. Geoff Gilbert (American University of Paris) a poem-novel entitled See You Through (Broken Sleep Books). Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices, the book explores intimacy, war, illness, and facial recognition technology. Alex and Geoff will launch the book at a reading on Thurs 23rd October, 7pm, in the […]
Continue ReadingMolly Williams Lectures on Gardens in Jane Austen’s Works, Royal Oak Foundation, October 22
With the rise of the English landscape movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, gardens became a reflection of taste, fashion, and social ambition. The sweeping designs of Capability Brown and the picturesque visions of Humphry Repton reshaped the countryside, while at the same time, an expanding global plant trade introduced new flowers […]
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts (Trinity) publishes ‘Of Influence’, a collection of essays reimagining ‘The Anxiety of Influence’
Of Influence has been published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice, and is edited by Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley (Oxford), and Roddy Howland Jackson (Oxford). Born of an international conference held in Oxford in 2023, 50 years after Harold Bloom published The Anxiety of Influence, these essays ask what Bloom can do […]
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon takes part in Royal Society event marking the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’
Published in October 1950, Alan Turing’s seminal paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ proposed a test to determine whether machines could think and speculated whether they might eventually compete with humans in all intellectual fields. But it is a very strange piece of writing indeed, one that has long intrigued and puzzled readers in equal measure. […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan participates in a panel discussion on the literary works and life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska, Wednesday 1 October
Writer and researcher Juliette Bretan will participate in an exploration of the literary works and life of Polish-born writer, Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925) and the launch of a new anthology of her writings, Of Bitterness, Doubt and Neglect: Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska, Kettle’s Yard and history’s shadows. The discussion takes place on Wednesday 1 October, 6pm-8pm, at Kettle’s […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson speaks at the Cambridge Literary Festival about her new book, ‘Vanishing Landscapes’
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival about her new book, Vanishing Landscapes, on Saturday 22 November at 2pm. Link to further information and to book tickets: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/bonnie-lander-johnson-vanishing-landscapes/
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