Prof. Hurley will join Australian Catholic University (ACU) at its North Sydney campus in September, contributing to teaching across the curriculum of its Western Civilisation Program, delivering the Aletheia Lecture, and conducting a Masterclass at the Ramsay Centre. He will also give a keynote address to the ACU community. Professor Peter Anstey, Director of the […]
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The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab at the Faculty of English has a website
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources. The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.
Continue ReadingJade Cuttle presents her current research on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’
Jade Cuttle (University of Cambridge PhD student and BBC New Generation Thinker) has turned her current English Literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled ‘Digging for Words’. ‘The Essay’, written and presented by Jade, airs on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 9.45pm or is available online now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298fx ‘Digging for […]
Continue ReadingTHIS EVENT IS POSTPONED: Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Event: ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’, Thursday 8 May
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. Details will be circulated when the new time for this event is confirmed Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: Thursday 8 May 2025, 5.30pm Seminar room GR.04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’ Diane Watt (Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey) and Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund […]
Continue ReadingDr John Colley publishes ‘Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560’ (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr John Colley’s first monograph, Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560 (Oxford University Press) is scheduled for online publication in April 2025. The book traces the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature, and argues that attending to the period’s ideas about Greek translation fundamentally […]
Continue Reading17th April 2025, deadline for a Call for papers for the Symposium ‘Black Atlantic Magazines and Space’
The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025. Further information on the event and submitting papers can be found in the poster below or at this link: https://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2025/03/call-for-papers-twentieth-century-black-periodicals-and-space-.html
Continue ReadingRegistration open (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, 3-4 July 2025, St John’s College, Cambridge
Registration has now opened (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, a two-day conference at St John’s College, Cambridge, 3-4 July 2025. Speakers include Barbara Ravelhofer, Julie Stone Peters, and Elisabeth Dutton. Further details about the event, including a programme and how to register, are available at https://stagingsilence.wordpress.com. Space is […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is delighted to announce that Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded one of the 2025 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2025
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson discusses her new book ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Heffers, Cambridge on 10 April
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes at Heffers, Cambridge on April 10th 6-7pm. Link to further information about the event and to get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-landscapes-bonnie-lander-johnson-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1291155935159 Vanishing Landscapes combines nature writing and social history to tell the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape. The book […]
Continue ReadingRead a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag
Read a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag here.
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