The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel. A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. Beginning with Marcel Proust, the argument focuses on novels published over roughly the last two decades […]
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Anthony Bale’s ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ published in Spanish, September 2025
Anthony Bale’s book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, will be published in Spanish as Guía de Viajes por la Edad Media: El mundo visto por los viajeros medievales (Madrid: Ático de los Libros) on 22 September 2025. A programme of talks and signings will also take place in that week in Barcelona and […]
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon delivers Keynote Address at Anglistiktag 2025
Professor Sarah Dillon is to deliver the keynote address at Anglistiktag 2025, the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English (literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, and EFL). This year’s conference theme is ‘Anglophone Studies and the Public: Past, Present and Future Debates and Interventions’ and Prof Dillon will deliver a talk […]
Continue ReadingClaire Watt awarded William St Clair Fellowship
Claire Watt has been awarded the William St Clair Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. This Early Career Fellowship honours the life and work of William St Clair by helping to support the research and professional development of early career researchers in languages, literatures and cultures. As the William St Clair […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab hosts ‘Telling Stories from Medieval England and Ireland, Thursday 16 October
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab hosts two innovative spoken word performances using medieval sources: Debbie Cannon, ‘Green Knight’ and Lara McClure, ‘Oral Tradition: Iron Age Ulster in the 11th-Century imagination’. October 16th at Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Places are free but very limited so booking is essential. Further details and tickets here.
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale in conversation with Getty manuscripts curator Larisa Grollemond
On 4 September Anthony Bale will be in conversation (online) with Larisa Grollemond at the Getty, Los Angeles, as part of their ‘Art Break’ series, talking about ‘Pilgrimage, War, Trade: Travel in the Middle Ages’. Link to further details: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/art-break-middle-ages-travel/
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives the keynote lecture at the University of Prague Centre for Medieval Studies summer school
Professor Anthony Bale gives the keynote lecture, entitled ‘Inside the archive of medieval travel: pilgrims’ libraries, itineraries, ephemera’, at the Univerzita Karlova/Charles University of Prague Centre for Medieval Studies summer school at Sázava monastery, Czechia, on September 5th 2025. On September 4th 2025, Professor Bale is at the Božská Lahvice bookshop in central Prague to […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab offers Digital Artists’ Bursaries
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab is offering Digital Artists’ Bursaries, a unique opportunity for playful experimentation and the space to create. The Creative Lab Digital Bursaries are conceived as transformative artistic grants, for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. The […]
Continue ReadingNew research on Jordan Peele’s horror films by Dominic O’Key
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Jordan Peele in Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film. The essay, titled ‘Jordan Peele’s Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar’, explores the representation of deer, rabbits, horses, chimps and aliens in Peele’s cinematic works. Animality and Horror Cinema […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman wins the Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship 2025
The Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship is intended to support research into Dame Ivy’s life and work and to increase awareness of the brilliance of her writing. Dr Charman will be working on the theme of governesses in Dame Ivy’s novels and will produce both an essay and a series of podcasts. Link to further information: https://www.ivycompton-burnett.com/post/scholarship-winner-2025
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